Occasional Hand Swelling and Joint Pain, and misc updates

This has been going on for a while.  So I'm going to start logging what I ate etc when this happens and see if there is a common link.  Still not sure if it's osteoarthritis or rheumatoid, or lately I've been thinking I prolly have both.  Hip has been hurting but it's also been 8 weeks since my last chiro appt, going tomorrow so hoping it'll get better.  

Cold is a lot better, still coughing occasionally but not too bad.  Pain in chest area comes and goes, hoping Chip will put it back in again and it'll stay this time.  Sometimes the pain in the chest gets pretty bad where I start wondering if there's something wrong with my heart.  It's a scare I get sometimes.  

Broke two things this past week, hit a glass jar against sink faucet and broke, and dropped a plate in sink.  Just remember dropping things months before my stroke.  Gotta be careful.   

Today around dinnertime my right hand swells again.  Middle finger had pain and hard to bend.  Not red nor hot this time, first two joints have pain. Took pic.  Next time I have to go to doctor for BP meds I'll ask if I can get tested or if I should see rheumatologist. 

Today...

Mid-AM:  Leftover chopsteak and rice.  

Lunch: Tuna sandwich with side salad (Ranch dressing), coffee (with vanilla creamer)

Mid-Afternoon: Iced tea with peach syrup.  Eat up remaining chopsteak.  Two pieces of Dove dark chocolate

Dinner:  Salad (QP dressing), spinach quiche (w/tomato and swiss cheese) & rice, and red wine. 

Around 9:30pm:  Tangerine

Activity:  Went for walk with Paula in town (3.5 miles) and then small house loop with Roscoe.  Cleaned on top of fridge and dusted.  Cleaned new toaster oven for lib in AM.   Cleaned lib in AM.

BP around 9 PM 145/100 (90).  Been trying to take BP meds almost daily.  Wondered if BP reading (if high) relates to hand swelling.

Right heel hurting after waking in AM, sitting for a while, and a little after I start my walk.  Possible mis-aligned hip pain contributing plantar fasciitis coming back? 

Lingering Cough & Subluxated Rib

The Friday before xmas 2018, I had a fever at work.  Next day I start coughing.  Bad coughing.  It lasts a few weeks before I go see a doctor. She says I have sinus infection and gives me antibiotics.  Told her about my chest pain which I thought was my lungs hurting from all the coughing.  Turns out I had popped a rib. Had Chip push it back in but it keeps coming out since I am still coughing.  Not as much, but still coughing.  So far he has pushed it back in four times.  Also been having shoulder blade pain on LEFT side so thought it was related to the popped rib. As that starts to get better the chest pain as decreased but not the shoulder blade pain.  Chip says that's from my chronic back issues.  I used to always have the pain on the RIGHT side.  I wonder why it's shifted to the left.  Will have to ask him when I go back in two weeks.  Had felt a lot better on my walk with Roscoe the other day that I jogged a little the last block.  Big mistake. It made my ribs really hurt.  So I guess I won't be running till this rib thing heals.  Rib that popped out was #3 in the front.  Cough has become less so for now won't go back to the doctor for now.

UPDATE 7/31/19. Had a chiroprator appt a week ago.  Rib still sticking out, though a lot less pain lately.  But he still has to push it in.  He thinks it could take like a year as the tendons/ligaments around it got stretched and loose.

UPDATE 1/3/20.  Chip is still having to push the rib back in at every visit (every four weeks) though he says its getting better.  Still coughing, some days very mildly, some days somewhat regularly. Around early November, had a bad coughing spell that lasted about 2 weeks.   Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with my lungs.