SOB! is back!

About ten years ago, I shovelled wet snow for nearly two hours. Had a few tall cold ones and grabbed the hran and drummed up a storm. Within an hour, a ganglion about half the size of a pingpong ball showed up on my wrist on the major thumb tendon just forward of the wrist joint.

It was close enough to the vein to restrict blood flow. Twenty minutes on hran or guitar was max. I was soooo pissed off. Doc said he could operate, but they often come back in about six months OR cortisone shots. I debited both ideas.

So, I lived with it and administered alcohol to lengthen my playing time, until it got worse. I gave up trying.

Then, one day about 6 months later, I was stripping siding and wall sheathing off my house and installing new. I was swinging an Estwing framing hammer and all of a sudden I noticed the ganglion was gone! I was ecstatic!

I waited about a month. Then, I played a session at a pub downtown. WHAT A JOY! Next morning, not so much fun.

I repeated "the hammer cure" rebuilding my Bro's deck and played very little after that.

Since then, I just pick up the hran every now and then and beat out a short tune when I feel moved by the music on the juke box. Guitar is useless due to the arthritis in both hands (over 6 years now) and the ganglion.

Now, even though I haven't done anything stressful to my wrist for a long while, the miserable f***ing thing is back. Started about three weeks ago and it just keeps getting bigger. This very moment, it's the size of a pea. This AM, upon waking, it was three times that size, which is the way it has been for a week.

Anyone got any advice?