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You park, grab a cart, and start down the aisle at H-E-B. By the produce section, your legs feel heavy, almost as if they’re filled with wet sand. Then you lean forward on the cart handle, and the heaviness fades. Walk the same distance upright through the parking lot, and you need to stop and…

It usually starts small, for example, when you finish a long phone call and notice your pinky finger numb, along with the outer half of the ring finger. Or you wake at night with fingers buzzing. By morning the inside of your elbow aches a little, as if you bumped your funny bone and the…

At 8 am, everything works. By 4 pm, one eyelid sags after an hour of reading emails. At dinner, the steak gets harder to chew halfway through, and the TV starts to double up if you stare at it too long. After a night’s sleep, it all resets. This rhythm of reasonable strength in the…

Your head drifts to the left when you stop paying attention. You straighten it, and a minute later it’s back. Maybe you’ve had months of massages, muscle relaxants, and “probably just a strain,” and your neck still won’t stay where you put it. It’s tiring, and it can feel isolating, because nothing looks wrong from…