hi monique, thanks heaps for your story. yep, DD had her op on friday so 3 days ago. it wasnt as bad as i thought it was going to be. i was able to go in while they put the mask on her (that was the worst bit and having to walk away). it only took about an hour and then they called and asked us to go to the recovery room because she had woken up quite distressed. she kept ripping at her bandage and just crying. she settled within 40mins and was fine after that. she had a bit of panadol, something stronger with codene in it and then some nurofen at home and she was fine with out pain relief from the second day.

it is on her left hand which is her writing hand so she is having trouble doing things like eating, toileting, drawing etc but she is coping with it well. they bandaged her whole hand up which i wasnt expecting. we have to go back in 10 days to get the dressing off and to inspect it. i hope it has worked.

do you know if there will be any physio involved? no one seems to be able to tell me. the doctor didnt even come and speak to us after the op and the nurses didnt seem to know anything specific, so we are assuming it all went well.