One other thought about the jade bangle… I assume it is valuable.
If it is, and the lady has become heavy or for some other reason is
not a good candidate for just reversing the original process… I
know that when, for example, a frat prank results in some poor kid
with a billiard ball stuck in his mouth, the solution is to
anaesthetize the area. This really relaxes the muscles, so the
hand, in this case, could be compressed much more easily and
painlessly. I don’t know whether ice would do it–you’d probably
need an understanding doctor. HTH --Noel