Rule of Thumb

For the past couple of months, the intermittent pain in my left thumb had progressed into a chronic pain at the base of my thumb. Must be from my smartphone habit of single thumb swiping. Stretches didn't help anymore. Icing the area did help a bit though. But the pain would return pretty soon. I read that I should the thumb, so I bought a thumb splint on Shopee. When my package arrived from China, everything was there, EXCEPT the thumb splint. The seller tried their hardest to waste my time when I asked them about the missing item. In the end I raised a case with Shopee anyway. The seller kept asking me to weigh the items without telling me the weight of the missing item. Anyway, Shopee returned my money in the end, and my made my purchase on Lazada instead. Hopefully, this will give my thumb enough rest for it to heal. If things don't get better, I'd have to go see the orthopedic specialist.