Still waiting for my trigger thumb to clear up... I have good days and not so good days, but there IS some gradual improvement. But the thought of what happened to Russ makes me shiver. We all take our hands for granted until something goes wrong...

One strange by-product of my thumb problem is that, it is the thumb I hook around my trombone with my left hand (and I use a Bb/F trigger a lot) and I simply can't do that right now...! So something that seems simple can have strange consequences.

I can only hope you start to improve, Russ, and I am afraid that you might have to listen to the doctor this time around, and let the wound heal it its' pace and not yours. Sucks, I know, but what is the alternative?