It's a chronic thing. I had surgery on the right wrist in March 2004, and then again in March 2005 for cyst removal. The injury to the left is very similar, unfortunately. Hurts like the dickens. My mother is tentatively scheduled to undergo knee replacement on Feb 12th, and I'm going to make an attempt to ditch work to fly home to help out, so if I do, I really can't afford to be non-weight bearing in that hand (ie splinted for two weeks after the surgery, then non-weight bearing for another 2 - 4 weeks). So, yeah... March. March is apparently a good month to have wrist surgery.