No Sense to be Tive with

It started out like any other normal day yesterday. Get up, hit snooze, get up again, wash hair, get dressed, make coffee, and get out that door. It was about the time that I reached the door that I noticed not "all" of me was awake. The tip and side of my ring finger on my left hand was numb.

Ok, strange, but it will wake up.

About thirty minutes down the road it was still numb and my brain started making up things: Isn't it the left hand and arm that ache or act strange when a heart attack is happening? Wait, I'm too young to have a heart attack. No I'm not, they say kids are having them these days. Don't they? Oh my gosh, I'm having a heart attack. I can't breathe. My chest is tight. Am I having an asthma attack? Is this a heart attack? I feel like my whole hand is going numb. I'm getting dizzy. Why am I getting dizzy?

But then the common sense part of the brain took over: Chill out, you're not having a heart attack. Stop taking short breaths, you're going to pass out. Your whole hand is not numb, it's just that one finger.



My finger is still numb today. Pinched nerve? I hope that's all that is wrong. For now it is just annoying. My finger no longer has the sense to be sens-a-tive.