Author: claclaws
Date: 2004-12-28 07:04
Many many thanks to all of you.
I was almost to tears as I read through your sincere and helpful postings. How can you be so nice to a total stranger, only because she plays the clarinet!?
Some more information(maybe for Alseq): I'm 36, Korean, mom of 2 kids and picked up the clarinet lesson after 10 year-pause since last year.
The neck problem was always there as far as I can remember. I sit quite long hours reading, working on computer etc, and my posture wasn't so good. Some stretching sessions and aerobics soothe my aching neck, but I never wanted to go to orthopedic doctor , I thought I can bear it.
It's really embarrasing to tell the following, but here it goes. The left thumb fiasco happened during last Harvest Festival in September. My younger son insisted we make traditional rice cakes, I happily agreed and made a nice dish...only it made me use my LEFT thumb very severely when making the dough for about 3 hours. Feeling the pain, I first visited a local acupuncturist. It didn't get better, so I visited another doctor (anesthesist) and he said there's a kind of knot or lump in the left thumb vein(?) so I needed an operation! I was dumbfounded but went with it. For a month, it felt okay. I even told myself that did good to my clarinetting as my left arm/hand became tension-less (of course..).
But after two performances with my amatuer groups in December I figured out it's not really wise to sit on my pain, and went to the orthopedic doctor.
Thanks for the chiropractor idea. Never thought about it.
I'll also check the TOC related sites or articles and find some doctors specialized in that.
Once again, thank you all, and I think I'll be practising wiser than harder in the future..
Lucy Lee Jang
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