QuoteA schoolgirl is facing surgery on both wrists after sending more than 100 text messages a day from her mobile phone.
Annie Levitz, 16, who has lost the feeling in her hands and is unable to pick up some objects, has to wear braces on both wrists and also needs pain-killing injections.
Doctors say she is suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome, whereby nerves in the wrist become trapped. The condition is usually associated with frequent computer keyboard use. Annie, from Chicago in the U.S., insisted she has cut down on her texting habit - but only to 50 a day. 'I know it's not good enough, but I am trying,' she said. 'It's not even good texts. It's things like, "Hey, hey, what's up?".'
She says she now hopes to trade her mobile in for an iPhone - as its touchscreen should make it easier to type out texts.
Annie said that she got scared after she began to develop pain.
'I started losing feeling in my hands and they'd go numb,' she explained. 'I'd go to pick up dishes and things and they'd just fall out of my hands.'
Doctors then diagnosed Annie, a pupil at Adlai Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois, about 35 miles north of Chicago, and fitted braces on her wrists.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1259243/Teenager-develops-carpal-tunnel-syndrome-sending-4-000-text-messages-MONTH.html#ixzz0j3IlZsRw
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I wonder what impact diddling had upon this? :icon_twisted:
Oh! Now you're talking hairy palms :biggrin: or is that something else :think:
Isn't Hairy Palms a location in SoCal?
I'm not sure about the solo diddling, but it didn't say that she needed glasses, only braces on both wrists. :biggrin:
Quote from: Sandy Eggo on March 24, 2010, 11:37:55 AM
Oh! Now you're talking hairy palms :biggrin: or is that something else :think:
:biggrin:
It's what happens with self service! :biggrin: