Oowwwweeeee/ warning blood and gore.

[halfdome, Danny]

Going to leap in here and say you do not have to post pix of this.

Also, you may find that the numbness "wears off" over time (it took several months after the ganglion cyst surgery I had in 1995 before I could type properly again, not because the thumb wouldn't move but because I couldn't feel the keyboard under it).

How big was your cyst? I had mine drained 18 years ago and it has come back about the size of a dime but it doesn't hurt my wrist just looks weird. Danny

[Podunkfla]

Well, the sutures come out this afternoon. We'll see how we do after that.

Ok give! Hope everything is alright???

Sutures came out OK. Just a small bit of numbness on the tip of my thumb. No surgical invervention necessary. The hand surgeons just deal with range-of-motion, not nerve repair. THe feeling will either come back or it won't. Otherwise it's just gonna be a nasty-looking scar across my thumb forever, but oh well....lesson learned. Still not able to use the thumb because the wound is pretty tender, but as my wife keeps telling me, just be glad the thumb is still attached where it belongs!

I'm glad everything is working out good for you.
I did something similar 27 years ago... Only I lost 1/2 of my right thumb. Fortunately, I have done just fine with what I have left. It DID make me a lot more careful since then.

[Laredo]

that was the weird part. this blister came up, and just kept growing. It was about the size of a pigeon's egg when I hauled myself down to the VA to get it looked at, and they told me the only thing to do was remove it surgically. There was a two-week wait for a surgeon, so by the time they took it off it was probably about the size of the ball inside one of those old-style computer mice...