It Just Hurts

So today, after eleven months and three doctors and lots of gaps between appointments due to their only being one hand specialist in the entire military (the Navy, as it turns out), I learned that below the dorsal aspect of the third carpometacarpal joint, just deep to the MRI marker, there is osseous prominence at the junction of the base of the third metacarpal and the capitate with a spur compatible with a carpal boss. There is

Wait there's more

There is abnormal signal within the overlying extensor digitorium and indices tendons, with abnormal soft tissue thickening and enhancement surrounding them. Now I know what you're thinking, and no, there was no discrete soft tissue mass identified.

I certainly appreciate all your cards and flowers.