Fighting my age

I’ve noticed lately that a curious aching has started to happen from both wrists down my forearms. Uh oh. It happens more toward the end of the day when I’m writing, :typing:and I have a suspicious feeling that it may be preliminary signs of carpal tunnel. Not good. The last time I had carpal tunnel, I was pregnant with my son. It got so bad, I couldn’t even hold a pen and sign my name. Thankfully it went away a few months after I gave birth. I don’t want to go through that again, needless to say.

My hubby had a simple solution: “Just stop writing until it gets better.”

It’s rather like telling an engineer–”Just stop using the computer and do your work some other way.” Or telling a teacher, “Just stop talking for a while.” Er, while it probably would work, the idea of not writing is akin to horror. How else do I shut up the little voices in my head? There’s just no way.

But I’ve developed some bad posture habits, and they’re catching up with me. Has anybody found any ways to combat this problem? What are ways that I can reduce the discomfort and still write?

I’m too young for this, I swear.