Medical Melodrama
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It was supposed to be a great day for Mary. She was on her way to get a
manicure and a pedicure. She had not gone in a while on account of her
arthritis, but today, for now, she was feeling better. There was a time when
her fingers were swollen so bad that they looked like sausages. The doctor
called the condition dactylitis. A few months ago, she had been working
long hours on the computer and developed a condition called carpoptosis,
which is also called wrist dropping, but that too had gotten better.