Posted by Larry Hoover on May 21, 2005, at 9:31:20
In reply to Re: taurine, justice etc, posted by world citizen on April 28, 2005, at 12:43:20
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> Hey Larry, do you have access to any live music where you live, specifically music that you would find appealing? If my memory serves me correctly you're the one with the chronically acute pain in your arm, right?Sorry it's been so long since I posted to this thread. I've been skimming the board, and working up from the bottom. This time, I'm starting at the top
It's my left arm that's giving me problems. I fell from a height, and my upper arm bone (humerus) crushed the head of one of my forearm bones, the radius. In effect, the joint started to "let go", to bend sideways, with one side being crushed (radius), the other side under tension (ulna). The tension (stretching) on the ulnar side damaged the nerve. So, I have musculo-skeletal pain on the exterior side of the elbow, and neuropathic pain on the interior side (and especially into my hand). The joint also locks under load (ice-pick pain, sufficiently intense to make me pass out, sometimes).
Worker's comp has forced me back to work, and even simple things aggravate the pain. I'm still waiting for a surgical *date*! It's nearly four months since the surgeon decided to operate, and I haven't even been booked yet. I fell January 11, 2004. Over 16 months ago.
> If I'm on track with this and you're the one that's been "winged" what are they doing about it-besides getting finger callouses from all the energetic paper shuffling? The reason I'm asking this is due to the fact that I believe that everyone that has the ablility to be creative a) owes it to the planet to share it,"The musician's art is among those arts worthy of the highest praise, and it moveth the hearts of all who grieve." ('Abdul-Baha, Selections from the Writings of 'Abdul-Baha), and b) as my testimonial in my previous post stated it's a GREAT source of endorphins.
The ulnar nerve injury has severely affected the use of the ring and small fingers of my left hand. I can't manage the fingering on the neck of a guitar.
> Even if you can't play the bass (at this time) I heartily encourage you to go listen to live music that you LOVE!!!!! We ALL know that even HEARING music that one loves has a great effect on neurochemicals!
Not much happening in that regard, hereabouts. I don't drink (I'm "in recovery"), so bars are not a good playground for me.
There are free concerts with fireworks all summer long, on the waterfront (20 minute drive), so I plan to catch a few of those.
> I find Ambient music to be exceptional in this way. I found an interesting book at the Library called "the Mozart Effect", by Don Campbell. Pain-acute, chronic and otherwise-is adressed as is anxiety.
I'm just concerned with managing the state of pain to permit any sort of activity. I am clearly between a rock and a hard place.
> Larry, what is your "day job"? I realize you may have shared this in a previous post but it may have been during one of my cruises "in the sea of remoteness", otherwise known as acute self-involvement! Feel free to "decline to state".
> World CitizenI am currently working on creating a tractor-trailer driver-training program. I fell off a truck, initially. The trucking company was forced to find "comparable work", and I was forced to do it, under our Worker's Comp legislation.
It just so happens that I already was a certified tractor-trailer driver-trainer (in another life?), and I have also written my own training programs. My boss is absolutely thrilled with what I can do. Serendipity? Silver lining? Who knows. It unfortunately "uses me up". There's really not much left of my energy or cognition when I get done with the day job. It's been nine years since I last was able to work full time, and this was forced on me. Time will tell, if I succeed or not.
Lar
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