What would you do?

[deepestandy]

Get it done buddy.

[tootricky]

Get it done and find some dry gloves. Otherwise you can always come along as kit bitch.

[ardhill]

I have very little feeling in the left side of my right thumb, I had no feeling for years as I chopped up the nerves at the base of my thumb ohh about 23 years ago. Now I have a sort of tingly feeling, which is a bit weird. Sort of like how your mouth feels when it is beginning to come out of the anesthetic you get at the dentist.

Got to say, you learn to live with it just fine.

My Dad chopped part of his thumb off with a circular saw a load of years ago too, and had it stuck back on. Sounds like the same sort of area as you. Again, he just lives with it fine. Apart from the fact that it wasn't a great job they did putting it back on, and it sticks out a bit too much, it doesn't bother him and he does a load of fine engineering stuff.

So, for my money, if you are happy with the job so far - live with it, it isn't that bad. And it can be a great party trick sticking pins in your dead bit

Come to think of it, I also have that same tingly feeling down part of my left arm and hand from a spinal nerve thingy.

In the end, the diving wouldn't make my decision, but the possible problems later in life. I know that I can live happily with no feeling in bits of my hands. If the chances of success were good - maybe I would go for the op, but if the chances of success were borderline, I would rather live with no feeling, than pain.
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[Sparky750]

I'm surprised you have to ask send me your kit and i'll go diving with gary and you have to pay for being so fcukiing stupid in the first place and not using a smaller knife like you where told

[Stesh]

[Scuttler]

Get it done. Your health is the important thing.....the dives will be there long after you're gone!

[purple vonny]

That's a very tough question! If you are happy with the feeling that you have got and you have been told it is healing well, you may be best leaving it alone.

However, should you decide against surgery, If you leave it any longer and change your mind, thinking you should have had an op, it will be too late.

I have numbness in my little finger and ring finger following a neck injury. It used to drive me nuts but I don't notice it much any more.

I hope you decide what is right for you. We really can't decide for you.

If it were me and it it was only a small area of numbness, I'd leave it.

Good luck though, sounds like it was nasty!!

[milldog]

Originally Posted by warmwaterdiver

of course I care mate

I mean if they have to amputate and you lose an arm and can't dive, you can still come out with us on the boat, I need someone to carry the kit, wash my mask and put my fins on, etc

you'll always be needed mate

but Jonesy says we're never leaving you in charge of the cooking

answer the phone biatch

Graham

[Dave_S]

Get it done, there will be other dives, you can't grow a new thumb.

just fill the diving days climbing Hartland point!

[frosty the snowman]

I would get it done because any neurological abnormalities may confuse things if you get bent. Of course if it's your w@nking hand you should enjoy the numbness as it feels like someone else doing it.