On 1/16/2016 7:02 PM, Ant wrote: > On 1/16/2016 7:51 AM, David E. Ross wrote: > >> Before retiring, I had surgery on my right hand. When the doctor said I >> could return to work -- about a week later -- my boss strongly suggested >> that I use only my left hand for a while. I am right-handed. I changed >> the settings on my work PC to use my left hand for the mouse. That >> lasted 3 minutes. The slight discomfort while using my right hand for >> the mouse was less bothersome than the mess I was making with my left >> hand. > > Carpal syndrome sucks. I'm also right handed. :( >
It was not carpal tunel sydrome. It was trigger finger (having nothing to do with guns). A bump developed on the tendon that pulls my right ring finger straight from a curled position. The bump would catch on a ligament that crossed over the tendon to hold it in place. I could not straightened the finger smoothly; instead, it would jump (the triggering effect) -- with much pain. The surgeon cut the ligament. Scar tissue formed to hold the tendon in place but more loosely than the ligament. I can now straighten the finger smoothly and without pain. The surgery I had was a last resort when repeated cortisone shots failed to give more than temporary relief. A few years later after I retired, I had to have the same surgery done on two other fingers. The same problem happened to both thumbs and even another finger; but in those situations, the problems yielded to cortisone shots. -- David E. Ross The Crimea is Putin's Sudetenland. The Ukraine will be Putin's Czechoslovakia. See <http://www.rossde.com/editorials/edtl_PutinUkraine.html>. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
