The Best Kind of Palsy

During one of the many snowstorms in the Northeast last winter, I hurt my wrist while trying to get my car out of the driveway. It has gotten a lot better since then but when I try to put weight on it while it's bent, it hurts a little bit. So the other day, I went to WebMD to see if I could diagnose the issue (which I am sure is just a mild sprain, but I wanted to see if there were other possibilities).

One of the possible conditions that came up was "Saturday Night Palsy." I had never heard of this term before but it sounded pretty awesome. Clearly, there is nothing funny about palsy, which is essentially paralysis of a body part, but there HAD to be something cool about SNP. WebMD would not go into specifics on what SNP actually is (probably because it was coined in the basement of an off-campus house in a college town), so I had to dig a little deeper. After entering SNP into the Google machine, I found this definition, "The term Saturday Night Palsy refers to nerve damage that can occur if a drunk person falls asleep with the back of their arms compressed by a bar edge, bench back, or like object." I think it's safe to say that we've all been there.