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The Loom Runs All Day, and My Shoulders Pay for It
I weave on a power loom, and the shuttle work never really stops. My arms move the same way thousands of times a day. Two years ago my shoulders began to ache by midday. Now my elbows hurt too, and by evening my neck is stiff as a board. My fingers ache when I tie knots or pick up a fallen thread. A weaver with slow hands earns less, so I kept quiet longer than I should have.
Rest on the weekly holiday used to fix me. It stopped fixing me. The stiffness began staying through the night, and mornings at the loom felt like starting an old engine. My own doctor moved my arms around, asked when it all began, and said this spreading pattern was not simple tiredness. He sent me towards a rheumatologist, a doctor whose whole day goes on joints that keep troubling their owners.
The loom owner gave me a half day to sort this out. A cousin in town helped me look on his phone. Together we went through Kushtia's doctor listings on DoctorBD24, and I noted the chambers near my route home. I wanted a doctor who would understand that my hands are my living, not just my body.
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Dr. M. Mahmud Hossain
The Loom Runs All Day, and My Shoulders Pay for It
What He Made of My Answers and My Reports
He wanted the whole story before anything else. Which joints, in which order. How stiff my mornings are. Whether tiredness has grown with it. He went through my earlier reports, moved my arms slowly, and checked how far each joint would go.
Pictures and Blood Work Before Any Big Word
He asked for blood tests and pictures of the joints that trouble me most. Until those reports are in, he would speak of direction, not verdicts. A plan built on guessing costs more months than one built on knowing.
Small Changes, Checked Again and Again
Nothing about my care was made final in one sitting. He set a starting plan, then called me back to review it. Each visit he asks about the loom days and the bad evenings, and adjusts in small steps. He has never dressed it up as anything faster.
The Medicines From Before Stay Untouched
I take medicines my own doctor set for an older trouble, and the rheumatologist left them exactly as they stand. They are not his to alter. Even on a kind week for my shoulders, I do not stop or shift them myself. The doctor who prescribed them decides any change.
When He Would Not Keep the Case Himself
My uncle fell from a roof last year and his shoulder never worked properly again. I asked if that, too, was joint work for him. He said no. A shoulder damaged by a fall, which may need repair, belongs to a surgeon. For my uncle he pointed me to the general surgeon listings for Kushtia.
Questions From a Weaver
Is all this just because of the loom work?
He would not reduce it to one cause. The loom loads my shoulders daily, but tiredness from work alone does not usually spread joint to joint and stay through the night.
Why pictures of joints that hardly hurt yet?
What a joint looks like inside and how it feels on a good day are two different things. He would rather see early than guess late. The pictures also give him a comparison for next time.
Should I stop the loom on the worst days?
We talked plainly. Full rest for weeks is impossible for me, and he knows it. On the worst days I ease the pace where I can.
What is different between one visit and the next?
Small things, mostly. A shoulder that lifts a little higher. A morning that unlocks faster. He keeps track of these and changes the plan a step at a time. Nothing leaps.
Will I weave at my old speed again?
He refused to promise a date or a full return, and I believe him more for it. We aim at steady ground first. Speed, if it comes back, will follow the joints settling.
One morning, if my elbow turns hot, swells, and will not move, what do I do?
You go to hospital that same day, he said, and do not wait for me. A joint flaring hot and swollen, pain arriving with fever, or one that suddenly locks cannot wait for a review visit.
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