Dupuytren's disease?

I know you are NOT trolling for sympathy, but I will go ahead and say that I'm sorry to hear about that. Keep us posted and I think we are all getting to the point where we are devising certain "work arounds".

Good luck, Mark.

join the club  my left hand the ring and pinky are curled in can't get gloves on in winter  they get in the way as i do things like models ..i have them straightened  a few times but after a couple months the revert and start to curl again been like this a few yrs   you will get used to it and learn how to work with just the other two fingers and thumb

I have something called "cubital tunnel syndrome" in my left arm/hand which at times effects the pinky, ring, and middle fingers and can radiate all the way back up to the shoulder when it is at its worst. Not much fun and it can severly curtail the use and dexterity of my left hand. right now it more of a constant mild tingling and numbness that I have learned to live with.

Those hand problems are no fun.  I can empathize, I started loosing feeling in my little finger around '82 or so.  The numbness and tingling (with sharp, stabbing pain) spread, one by one, to the rest of my right hand.  Two surgeries fixed the pain, the numbness remained.  As said, one learns to compensate for it (I started shooting left-handed for one) but it and the other maladies mentioned already, does complicate our model building!

Gary