Specificity
Although well through andropause or ‘manopause’, I still find my body obeying me pretty well, except in the area of metabolism - losing weight is harder, and caring about it is harder: There are so many other more important things, I am not in the sexual market, and food is a greater pleasure now that I have slowed a little.
But one area that has cropped up recently is that I can pull muscles more easily than before. It happened when I was pulling wire up from the old rabbitat (www.rabbitats.com) ealier this year, and this time when I was pulling thorny hedge roots from outside the summer cottage. There was a ping, and a sharp pain in my forearm, and I had to immediately stop. Then it faded for a while, but settled in my ring finger: Anytime I hit it or bumped it or gripped with it, it reminded me, sharply.
A week later I can go for quite a while without feeling it - guitar playing, gripping the drill or hammer, doing bodywork. I can find it, but only if I curl the ring finger about halfway, and then press in against resistance in a very specific oblique direction. I feel it in the forearm.
Here’s the news: There are no muscles specifically aimed at the ring finger in the forearm. But I guess there are.