I am glad the surgery worked for you - that is great. Time will tell with Sadie. Janice
From: Beeclark Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 9:26 PM To: tmic-list@eskimo.com Subject: Fwd: Fw: Re: [TMIC] This link was on the Forum today...surgery for 4-yr old with TM - WoW I should think it works the same way my "tendon transfer" worked for my right hand. After TM "visited" me in April 2006 and I spent a month in a rehab facility, all four fingers on my right hand 'dropped' at the hand knuckles. I couldn't lift my fingers up when my palm was facing the floor, nor open my [permanently?] cupped hand without manual assistance. My occupational therapist recommended me to a wonderful sports medicine surgeon who, with the guidance of a Stanford surgeon, performed a 2-part tendon transfer on my right wrist in September of 2008 and October of 2009. Using a lesser tendon in my arm, he transferred its' function to take over for the damaged one. After several hand/arm splints and therapy sessions, the result is I can now open and close my fingers - though I am still working on bending the end joints completely - i.e. making a fist. The added function has been a God-send... I can now grip things between my fingers and thumb [like the zipper of my pants], pick up things, etc. The nerve transfer for little Sadie may conceivably work in the same way, possibly even better since she's so young and likely more adaptable to therapy than someone my age [57]. My prayers and best wishes go out to her and her parents. It's hard enough on those of us who've had the advantage of living some number of years as a 'whole' person, but for someone so young and in the infancy of life to be struck down by TM... that offends my senses. If these doctors have discovered a possible "fix" for the lack of function we TM'rs are left with, HALLELULAH!!! I anxiously await hearing about her recovery. Betty (in Northern California)
