My attention deficit disorder having been satisfied; I’ve had plenty of attention lately; it’s time for Judy to get something fixed. Her thumbs are bothering her so we went to a hand specialist in Corpus on Thursday. He said the thumb joints are shot; worn out. (This happens to women a lot. We don’t know why it happens to women more than men.) The problem is where the thumb meets the hand. There is supposed to be a nice cartilage cushion there. Judy’s thumbs; no cartilage. Bone to bone. That’s not good.
She has been to see a hand specialist here in the Valley. He diagnosed the same problem and tried the cortisone shots that are supposed to help. They did help, but only for a few weeks. The real fix comes with a tendon graft operation. They cut off the end of the thumb bone, take a section of tendon from the forearm, (that I guess we don’t really use all that much), and bind the thumb bone back to the wrist with the extra part wadded up in the joint to act like cartilage, and eliminate the bone to bone. No more pain.
Sounds good to us. We’re headed back to Corpus on Tuesday for a Wednesday operation. Day surgery. We should be back home Wednesday night. A few weeks of recovery and we can do it again for her left thumb.
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