A thumb's worth of progress

[hrj]

The thumb is doing much better. The day after the cortisone shot, the pain was pretty much all gone (although I'm still working very hard at not putting much pressure or extension on it). Yesterday and today, I've been testing the extension occasionally. Sometimes it doesn't go past straight, but sometimes I get the full "hitchhiker's thumb" that's normal for me. (And sometimes I get the "trigger finger" click, which is why I'm testing it only a couple times a day -- that means I could still re-inflame it.)