surgery?

as some of you may know Monica was born with HYPOPLASTIC THUMBS what this means is that some of the bone was missing or under developed when she was being formed. So after she was born she had two hand surgeries to correct the problem on her right hand she did have some bone but it was under developed so the doctor went in and took some of her tendons from her pinkie to make this thumb function it now functions great it is not as big as it should be but she uses it well the left hand had no bone so it was amputated and replaced with the index finger this process is called pollization. she has functioned well up until recently she had been complaining of some pain we assume all the writing in second grade has caused this so we have been going to physical therapy and saw the doctor last week he would like to operate on the left hand and do another tendon transfer this would allow her to move the thumb to the pinkie and allow more fine motor movement with the left hand. i know that the doctor would not want to do the surgery unless he felt it to beneficial to her she how ever does not want the surgery (typical of a 7 year old I'm sure) he would like to do the surgery this summer but if you know us very well you know that we do a lot of swimming in the summer and traveling she would be in a plaster type cast for 6 weeks to avoid injury to it we also thought about doing it over spring break but then she wouldn't be able to play soccer which she has done for the last 4 years. i want to do it as soon as possible just to get it out of the way. Jay seams to think we should wait and the doctor says that their is no hurry so i don't know what to do. it is a outpatient surgery so that's good i do think it should be done on a Friday or when their is a few days off of school if not in the summer so if their is some pain she wouldn't have to go to school if she didn't fill like it. at this point I'm not sure what we are going to do any suggestions? here is a link to a website that we visit that has a good photo of her hand it is from when she was 3 http://www.superhands.us/pages/monica.html