it's a long story...
Hello fellow Stick enthusiasts!
I used to belong to Stickwire and have attended 6 or 7 amazing seminars... I have met many
of you through one of the two. Greetings to new members...
The Last I attended was the 2006 Ann Arbor Seminar - then I fell off the map. I was quite ill
for some years from a ruptured appendix. 2006-2010 were very hard. 8 days in the hospital
with my abdomen open to drain the poison.
I was bed ridden a couple months - but TWO amazing things - I could still make some money as I was giving permission from surgeon to play the weddings and other performances I had booked but I could not lift anything. I would get dressed, be driven to the event - sit down and play with a lap bar. Then back home to bed
I finally had a roadie!The second was getting a phone call from Yuta and Emmett Chapman to wish me well!!!
That day felt like Christmas and so did the next! A real lift to my spirits and totally unexpected
I was happy to be alive but did have complications and side effects from the initial peritonitis
as well as the surgery. Was able to return to almost my normal schedule of things after
months. Mostly because the different (self employed) work I did wasn't hard on my body anyway.
I had a right wrist bone fusion and nerve damage from previous a injury... clumsy and back luck
"Delayed adhesions due to peritonitis" is the term for this condition. Internal scaring is the way I think of it. No problems with digestion but with the muscles and organs around it! I couldn't breath while eating (with a side of crippling pain) so loss of appetite was huge. By 2010 I was 110 pounds and almost felt like giving up. I could barely keep up, so lost touch with many people.
In July 2010 I finally felt I was actually beginning to recover! I will always have adhesions (like my wrist) but WOW what a difference.
If anyone reached out on Facebook or other mediums and got little or no response - it was not personal or intentional - I just couldn't. I did try a few times only to stop trying. It's easier to engaged now and wished for
I still have trouble with eating and so on but I am much more active and doing things that are good for me such as music, meditation, playing live meditations! ...
Happy to be reaching out to the larger community again. It's great thing that people share their
Knowledge and passion for this instrument. Tips, tricks and encouragements.
I shared a Youtube link to my other passion (in equipment) - building my pedalboard for my Stick ( NS cello, base...) Just finished it recently. I did the first demo video - working on more.
I will also post info tomorrow in Announcements about a performance I am doing in Bowmanville
Ontario (near Toronto) at an art gallery next Sunday April 8th. One musician joins me for
some songs, we play to projected videos (artistically edited).
I will start searching through back posts to try and catch up on what I missed
Jason Brock