Here's something to post about, for a change.

Around 5.30 pm today as I was preparing to wash up a very few dishes, I noticed a sudden odd sort of pain in my left arm. New to me. A hurt and minor tingling from the shoulder down through the upper arm and somewhat into the forearm. As it continued instead of disappearing, I became concerned. Thought, Oh, this may be the start of my AAA bursting, but wait, I don't want to die on the floor of the kitchen. And of course I shook it around a bit, but the pain, which was minor but real, remained.

So I quickly grabbed my cell phone and moved upstairs to my nice big, warm bedroom with the rose carpet there and in the bathroom. Much better. And then I thought, Well, no, not the AAA but more likely an embolism or a heart attack. Probably a clot forming, not a heart attack because no chest pain or strain. Good thing it's the left arm, not the right.

Off to the bathroom then to do something. Took off my clothes and decided to paint with my wife's large paint brush (for Chinese water color, not very big) some DMSO all over the shoulder, upper arm and some of the lower. Oddly, that did not itch much at all, but it had a practically immediate effect of lessening the pain. Not much tingling going on. Then I thought to take a pill of lumbrokinase. Dr. Mercola's. He thinks it's better than nattokinase. Maybe I can insert a photo later.

So back to bedroom to lie down and wait, to rest the arm. I lay on my right side and wrapped around a nice pillow there. Good feeling. Pain persisted. I ran nice images through my head of the Dr. William Bengston kind that I have used before, sometimes successfully.

But then I remembered that I had my Bemer pads just on the other side of the bed, and I should definitely use those. But they were on top of the covers. Didn't want to get up and move around. Stayed maybe ten minutes and then did get up to give that a try, 20 minutes at a 3 setting, the highest. But I've done this setting before. Wrapped my upper left arm with it. Maybe it helped.

Now, feeling better, I thought to go back downstairs and retrieve my various items for spending the rest of the evening upstairs. Laptop, some warm coffee.

Then I thought it would be great to take a hot shower. Did that. It did feel good. Now the pain is down maybe to only 10% of what it was. But it persists. And I am writing this blog. I started at about 8 pm.