{"id":4357,"date":"2021-07-23T00:06:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T00:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/?p=4357"},"modified":"2021-08-08T00:49:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T00:49:38","slug":"when-your-bones-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/?p=4357","title":{"rendered":"When your bones speak…."},"content":{"rendered":"

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4 weeks in a cast while the bone sets. No screws or plates. Cast comes off at the end of August.<\/div>\n

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But I gained another tidbit of insight.<\/div>\n
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If you\u2019ve played any gigs with me, or taken an in-person lesson with me\u2026folks notice I tend to pause every so often and do a specific type of stretch to relieve my thumb. It\u2019s almost a habit\u2026like I\u2019m stretching to relax my muscles and hands.<\/div>\n

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So yesterday, the doctor is looking at my x-ray. It\u2019s now eight days since the bone break sent me to Patient First, six days after I should have come in for a follow-up because of the storm. I\u2019m becoming a little scared the delay has caused some damage.<\/div>\n

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He turns from the x-ray. \u201cYou\u2019re a tough lady.\u201d<\/div>\n

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First off, there was a very, very, very slight movement of the bone from the original position\u2026 but it honestly was so slight it wasn\u2019t worth doing any surgery over. Tears of relief started to well up; I had been in increasing amounts of pain in the 3 days prior to my appointment. I was very afraid I was in for screws and surgery.<\/div>\n

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Then he also observes that the cartilage at the base of my left thumb has been completely worn away from the years of use while playing bass. The pain I thought was arthritis starting was really feeling the bone-on-bone contact at times.<\/div>\n

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That pain had taught me over a decade prior how to relax my left-hand grip; I had been using that as a feedback mechanism to teach my hand to play without unnecessary pressure.<\/div>\n

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Wild stuff. No idea how long it\u2019s been like that, other than my memory acknowledging it\u2019s been there for a very long time and it was serving as a tool to monitor my grip pressure.<\/div>\n

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If you want something bad enough\u2026.<\/div>\n

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\u2026but seriously I\u2019m not endorsing that path\u2026no one wants to deal with chronic pain.<\/div>\n

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One of my friends came to pick me up for my appointment. I told him what they found out.<\/div>\n

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When he dropped me off, he sat on my couch and started working on his phone. He looks at me and asks me to call him\u2026.he wanted to test something.<\/div>\n

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I found out he decided to assign my incoming calls to the Tina Guo Wonder Woman theme. \"😉\"<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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