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Re: Tremor in hands

Author: Ursa
Date: 2015-05-30 06:24

Thanks for the responses! Having already suffered through a lightning strike and a stroke, I fully realize this is nothing to dink around with and am anxiously awaiting to hear back from the neurologist's office. I guess I was just casting about for some ideas on how best to manage until the situation is professionally addressed.

I have absolutely no idea how at my last rehearsal, after losing my grip on my best mouthpiece after removing it from my clarinet for a quick swabbing, I was somehow able to grab it with my other hand in mid-air before it hit the tiled concrete floor. What a close call!

Paul, after suffering through some paralysis following a stroke, I've certainly been through the "Well, it's been a good run" woes. A brasswind player at the time and left unable to manage any brasswind instrument, out of a mixture of boredom, frustration, and desperation I dug my little-used Vito clarinet out of the closet--and discovered that I could still able to play the clarinet! What sheer joy it was to be able to play a wind instrument again, and such good therapy for my weakened right hand and diaphragm, too.

This is just a minor bump in the road. Keep calm and carry on.

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