Baking and yoga

I went to hear the results of the MRI scan of my wrist yesterday. It was really weird, seeing my wrist there, all sliced up – it looked like a series of... well, rusinapulla or korvapuusti (there isn’t a word in English for those – they are sort of doughnuts baked in the oven, the first one has raisins in it, the second is made with cinnamon, rolled up and sliced, coated with large grain sugar... Google finds images of korvapuusti).

Baking aside, apparently the ganglia in my wrist is benign, as in: it’s not cancer or likely to cause arthritis in the future. Doctor didn’t recommend surgery - it seems that the operations are very unsuccessful: only 20-30% actually recover fully, and even then there is a high chance the ganglia would grow back. In addition, the scarring is apparently very ugly.

So for now although it does cause some pain, I’m going to live with it. It does affect my yoga a bit – all movements that require weight to be put on wrists, I have to avoid. Oh well – beauty of yoga and ashtanga is that most asanas (postures) can be done in many levels, so often I can just do the basic ones. This means very careful up-dogs, but definitely no advanced purvottanasanas or any bhujapidasanas.