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Ooh, ow. Very sorry to hear you’ve got a nerve problem. They can be both painful and frustrating (I’ve got a couple of issues myself). May your exercising and treatment give you relief RIGHT DAMNED NOW!

Bummer…maybe it’s the weather, youse guys are getting hammered. It’s unseasonably cold and windy on the West Coast too.

I’m dropping a second comment to avoid Akismet’s ire.

I slept very cold and woke with rotator cuff pain…an old injury impinges the nerve everso often. Do you know about Bob & Brad? “Most Famous Physical Therapists on the Internet” In our opinion of course!!!”

I enjoy their dry, self-depreciating humour, and simple easy to do exercises. I do their shoulder and balance set daily.

Anyhoo, here’s their elbow series.

One more thing…do you have a TENS unit, they work.

I was having bad shoulder pain a couple years ago. Thought I was going to need medical intervention. Then I realized that when I was driving in my car I was pressing down my elbow into the center console. All the time. I actively stopped doing that and over a couple of weeks the shoulder pain just disappeared. I was thinking it a work related ergonomic issue and it was what I was doing during the drive to and from work that was causing the problem.

Things are just becoming more troublesome as I get older.

Have you checked on kinesiology taping for pain reduction? My years-ago physical therapist used it to ease some pain. Forgot about it, then got some k-tape as an extra in a Walmart or Amazon or CVS box. I’ve got enough pain in enough joints I can’t think of where to try it first.

Here’s something on stoat evolution –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8xL5OoKhcA&t=330s

Yes, I watched Bob and Brad on trapped nerves. I watched a bunch of YT, and they were all promoting essentially the same exercises. Which is good. Better today.

Dissent, that lady puts the emphasis on the second syllable in mustelid!

“Dissent, that lady puts the emphasis on the second syllable in mustelid!”

Where else would it go?

OED: mustelid — (ˈmʌstiːlɪd)

Accent on first syllable, and no alternate pronunciation given.

There’s no telling what mispronunciation will become accepted usage. And I’m expecting to hear “usage” pronounced as faux French you-SAAAAHZH any day now.

I know I’m quickly gaining cranky old fart status, but would it kill these whippersnapper presenters to dress appropriately? Those jeans do that poor woman no favors. Dan Brown lurking around castles dressed like a leftover Mod is annoying and Suzannah Lipscomb’s outfits are often distracting. Lucy Worsley and Helen Castor get it right, as does Dan Brown and Neil Oliver…then there’s Bethanny Hughes who just has too much oomph to rein it in.
@Uncle Al…faux French makes me crazy especially Moet pronounced as Mow-ay…the dude was Dutch it’s Mo et.

Oh, it’s coming to something when my own website forgets me!

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen’s Illustrations of Cats in Fin de Siecle Paris

h/t almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread

I have the Dover edition of that, BJM, and I’m damned if I can find it.

I LOVE this cartoonist–so glad you posted the site.
I remember the ‘Mercury’ series in National Lampoon in the early 1970’s.
Hilarious!

(Good luck with your nerves!)