Thanks y'all ! My fear is the recovery time which I know cannot be predicted. Like I said I work with these guys pretty regular in trauma on the weekends. I will talk to the doc who recommended the stablyx. His name is Edmund Rowland in Denver. Kinda funny because the younger hand guys recommended the tightrope and tendon transposition. He said that was a end run commitment. If the stables does not work you can still have those done. If you do those first and the bone is removed you cannot do the stablyx, that is why I am really looking at that. Steroid shots last about 2-3 weeks so they are near useless. For now I wear a wrist/thumb brace unless I am scrubbed in surgery. Fortunately I am the primary weekend night trauma tech so I am not usually in surgery for my full 12 hour shift. I will continue keeping Dr. Rowland posted and I'll let you all know my progress and decisions. I am really happy I found this forum so I can get a patient perspective rather than the surgical side. I know the Fed's and Dr. Rowland knows the guy at Skeletal Dynamics who designed it. I have done distal radius repairs numerous times using their distal radius set and have been really impressed from a surgical standpoint. Thanks again and I'll keep you all posted!