It finally happened!!!

Over the past year we've been updating you about Moira's trigger thumb. She had surgery in October and after one month her thumb hadn't released. I took her back in and the surgeon was stumped. He suggested waiting and watching, but Adam wasn't convinced that her thumb would ever release on its own. We had concerns about her development because she refused to use it and she's getting to the age when she is learning to form shapes, lines, letters, etc. She is naturally right-handed but had to resort to her left hand which was obviously more awkward for her to use. So we called the Dr's office and insisted on another surgery to cut more of the tendon. We were also motivated by the cost (which major decision isn't impacted by money?) since we'd met our yearly deductible between Brayden's birth and Moira's surgery. We didn't want to meet the deductible again the following year if we ultimately dediced to have Moira get another surgery then.
We went back to Primary Children's in December to have Moira go under the knife again. Same as before, no complications. The Dr. said when they went in he checked the tendon over extra carefully and "carved" (his word) those pulleys out as much as he could. The only conclusion he had for why the thumb didn't release the first time was that the scar tissue that formed around the tendon reattached it to the pulleys. He said he'd never seen it happen before but he's not putting anything past the human body's ability to heal itself.
It is a month later and her thumb has fully released!!! YEAHHHH!!!!!! For the first time since she turned two years old she has the full use of her right hand (that's a year and a half). I am so relieved that it worked and she has no side-issues with it. The second time she had surgery I asked Adam to give her a blessing because I didn't want to have to go through this again. Sure love the blessings of the priesthood.