I guess an update may be in order...Well, I'll make it easy for you...
You need to really want or need this surgery to justify the frustration.
Like I've said, my left hand is doing remarkably. On the other hand (neat how that works out), my right is really being a bugger to stop being stiff, sore and sometimes outright painful. I don't quite understand why, other than perhaps it has to do with me being right handed.
I can move the fingers just as easily as the left, as long as there is no stress against them. In other words, I'm great at waving bye-bye and pretending I'm a trumpet player, but if I have to grip anything, I'm toast. Making a fist is easy, the fingers will curl up and it even feels like a fist, but I can feel resistance in the tendons, and if I move them just right there are some fairly sharp pains up and down my arm.
I am told that this is what I should have expected with the left hand. They say that, being a guitarist and that my fretting (left) hand is so much more limber that it was predisposed to this kind of surgery...But then again, I fingerpick with my right, shouldn't that count for something? They said no, picking and fretting are not just two different brain functions, they are physiologically unrelated.
So it may be a month or two before I am pulling the trigger, especially on a powerwasher wand. My right hand sometimes feels like my wife ran over it with the minivan...Good thing that the three jobs waiting on me now are low-impact stain-and-thain operations...
...I may wind up hiring a crew after all this Spring when the monster jobs come up...
Thanks to those of you dropping me PMs, I appreciate your concern and am glad to be missed...
