Had my first surgery experience this week. Last spring, at the end of broomball season I had some pretty extreme wrist pain at the base of the thumb on my right hand. Despite easing off on some activities that seemed to aggravate it, the pain did not go away. I went in to see a hand specialist and she declared that I had De Quarvain's Tenosynovitis, an inflammation of the tendon sheath at the base of my thumb. The Doc gave me a cortisone shot and I was on my way. Within 2 days the pain was gone and I was functioning like new.
Fast forward to January of this year. I had been doing a fair bit of XC skiing over the Christmas and New Year break and noticed that the pain was returning. I stopped skiing but the pain did not subside. So, in early February I was back at the Doc's office to check it out again. No shot this time. The next step was to go in and surgically create a larger opening in the tendon sheath for my tendons to slide through. On Tuesday morning the 12th I went in and had the following procedure done. Dequarvains Release.
Overall my first surgery experience was great. Almost less annoying than going to the dentist. I was knocked out with an IV sedative and everything after that was rainbows and unicorns.
Now comes the recovery. I need to take it easy for a few weeks which means no outside biking, XC skiing, or heavy lifting. Thankfully, I can still get on the trainer to get a little bit of excercise though. The annual Man Trip, winter camping weekend is coming up soon and though I may not be able to partake in all the adventures of the weekend, I'd still really like to get up there and camp, since I missed out last year due to this same injury. Hopefully this fixes it for good!
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