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Good luck with it NELA.  You seem to really enjoy playing, so I hope those hand surgeries can be overcome.  I'm sure with your crafting skills and determination that you'll be able to find a way, even if it's not the conventional way.

I hope you will succed and be playing well soon.

Good for you NELA - I wish I had the time and commitment to take some lessons. Maybe someday

Congrats NELA on having the gumption to get back on the horse again.  I sometimes think about taking lessons but I think in my case it'd be like pouring perfume on a pig. 

DE

Well, with the forced retirement due to health reasons, leaving  me with a lot of free time on my hands I needed something to do. I have been playing, a little, but I think my skills are getting stale. As Zguitar wrote it will become a "have too thing" and hopefully I'll learn something new. Since I don't play any lead we are gonna get started by working on improving my rythem skills by adding some bass runs, walk-ups and downs and some other chord embellishments. I really think these lessons are going to be interesting. These lessons will be for 1 hour every other week and the teacher comes to me. I've already had my 1st lesson which was more of a discussion of my playing ability and where / what I wanted to accomplish. We also discussed his qualifications and background which seem quite good. I think things are going to work well. He gave me some stretching excerises for my fretting hand as well as an excerise to work on my single string picking. I have practiced so much the last couple of days my fretting fingers are sore. In another post I told ya'll how I was having a reaction to some of the meds I am taking that was causing a rash and my skin to peel. It was determined that the "breakout" of the rash was due to "chemo" burns from the cancer meds. I ending up with the skin on both hands, arms and legs peeling off in sheets  luding the palms of my hands. Even lost the calluses on my finger tips from playing. Anyway, I looking forward to these lessons and have hopes of getting a lot from them.

Nela

The problem with my meds was twofold. The meds was affecting my blood sugars and that was making me feel bad plus being out in the sun while taking an expermental chemo drug for the kidney cancer caused the rash and, per the doctors at M D Anderson Hospital, caused my exposed areas to "cook" from the inside out causing the peeling. If you was to take the most severe sunburn you ever had then multiply it times 2 you'll have an idea of what I went thru. The doctors took me off my meds for a short period to let my system clear up but want to keep me on what I'm taking because it's working and and I'm getting excellant reports on my blood work and scans. Just hate not being able to get out in the sun unless I'm wearing long pants, long sleeve shirts and a hat. Then you add the A-fib I'm going thru plus a second stint. Where does this crap stop!

nela

Good on you, NELA!