Wales skipper Gareth Thomas should be back in action for club side Toulouse within a week, despite an alarm over an infection in his healing broken thumb.
"When they took the cast off there was a big stench from an infection," Thomas revealed in his column for BBC Sport.
"If it was in the bone they would have had to do the operation again, but luckily it was just in the skin."
The Lions squad is announced on Monday and Thomas admits that players are on edge to see if they have been selected.
A deep infection would have put Thomas back on the sidelines for another six to eight weeks.
That would have ruled him out of Toulouse's Heineken Cup semi-final and put his Lions chances in jeopardy should he be selected.
But Wales' record try scorer says he is "over the moon" to be given the all-clear and cannot wait to get on the rugby field again.
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