Re: Ganglion

[Douglas Baldwin <coyotelk@optonline.net>]

It felt 100% better after the surgery - full movement of the joint 
returned.
And the tiny numb spot is barely noticable - it's about 1/4 of the knuckle
surface, and I have to rub my finger over it to feel it at all.
-dB


From: "L.A. Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>

> just curious do u regret doing the surgery or has it
> affected your playing or your hand effectiveness in
> anyway?
> Luis
>
> --- Douglas Baldwin <coyotelk@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> > Just to add to the ganglion survey: I had one on the
> > outer knuckle of my
> > left (fretting) hand middle finger, about the size
> > of a small pea (and isn't
> > it funny how tumors and growths are so often
> > compared to fruits and
> > vegetables?). This was way back in the early 1970s,
> > when I was in my early
> > twenties. My family doc advised me to leave it
> > alone, but it really
> > interfered with my guitar playing - really hurt when
> > I bent the finger. So
> > he did the surgery, and afterwards I was left with a
> > tiny numb spot on my
> > knuckle and no ganglion ever again.
> > Douglas Baldwin, coyote-at-large
> > www.thecoyote.org
> > coyotelk@optonline.net
> >
> > "The music business is a cruel and shallow money
> > trench, a long plastic
> > hallway where pimps and thieves run free and good
> > men die like dogs. There's
> > also a negative side."
> > --- Hunter S. Thompson
> >
> >
>
>
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