So this Parisian dentist with impossible levels of facial symmetry ushers me into an exam room where he takes some X-rays and taps around the tooth that hurts then after a while he says, “You have two pains: the physical pain and the psychological pain”. And then with a drill he slightly reshapes the tooth that hurts so that I’m not clenching down on just it, and tells me to stop clenching my jaw.
What is the moral of this story? I guess it’s a story about having a need that is capably met by a compassionate expert. Which, come to think of it, should not be an unrelatable story at all. My hope for you is that your needs will be met by a compassionate expert. I think that’s something that we all deserve. So thank you to that compassionate expert in Paris.
I’ve been using a computer keyboard and mouse since around 2008.
Around 2020, I began to notice pain in my hands and my forearms.
In retrospect, I think it probably started even earlier; I kept wanting to buy different keyboards, that nothing “felt right”, that I wasn’t able to type properly.