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Giving up the clarinet

Author: Tony F
Date: 2019-09-01 21:03

It looks as though I'm going to have to give up the clarinet, at least for a while. When I was about 12 I was fooling around with some other kids on a lakeside jetty. I dived off and managed to bury my head in a sandbar that was not visible due to the turbidity of the water. I had a stiff neck for a couple of weeks but thought no more of it. Recently I started having pain and violent tingling down the right arm and hand, and a study of the various scans and Xrays shows that I actually fractured a vertebrae at that time. Now, at the age of 80 it has come home to roost. I'm having some surgery next week to replace some damaged discs, stabilize the neck and open up the nerve passages, and hopefully this will enable me to play again. I do hope so, as playing clarinet keeps me young. I really don't look forward to the clarinet as a spectator sport.

Tony F.

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