I'm Back

Life got so busy that I had no time to fight with my computer. The whole story will be too much for this entry, but I will start anyway.
As I said earlier, my finger has not been working correctly, causing me stress: I can't draw, write and play guitar as well with a finger not working. I was wetting a paper towel and heating it in the microwave at work to hold to my hand and help my movement when someone saw me, asked me what was going on, and whisked me to the medical room. They got me an appointment with a doc, which put me on work restrictions and got me a cortisone shot. For therapy, I am to stretch out and extend my finger, which happens to be my middle finger. I asked if this was for physical or emotional therapy, which garnered a few laughs.
Since I am still working as a temp, I was not happy with something that may make me appear limited in my usefulness. Also, I knew that others have similar hand problems and in worse shape, but have yet to go after treatment. These others have told the boss, as I had done, but this did not prompt him to seek treatment.
They put me on a job that is run separate from the assembly line where I sub-assemble and load programs into modules and got pretty good at it. I trained a replacement and just making things more sensible for him got me a bit of praise for organizational skills.
I am back working on the line now, and feel that my hand is still improving. The bosses have been extra cautious in reintegrated me to the line work, which I appreciate. This experience has made me feel that I have a good chance at getting hired as a full time employee with health insurance and retirement, etc.; important stuff when you can see increasing limitations approaching the big five-oh.