> It's amazing to me how many of us have things in common!
>
I played drums from age 10-22, got married, sold my acoustics set. I
still have a cassette tape of a recording of 7-8 songs I did with a group of
other kids when I was 11 years old. Went through a second childhood between
30-33, bought two sets (first one used,second one new), started to get
really bad ringing in my ears and gave them up and sold them. In my mid
forties, going through a third childhood, was going to takeup skydiving, set
aside money and everything for it to....but....started to get bad pain in
neck, shoulder, tricep in left arm and fingers in left hand. Went to the
doctor,he told me I had two disc in the back of my neck that were pressing
against my spinal cord. I was out of work for 2-1/2 months from the pre/post
surgerical stuff. Doctor said, no skydiving, period, get over, take up some
with less stress on your neck. During the time I was at home on pain
killers, in a neck brace, I got bored and started surfing the net for drums.
Ran across the e-drums and bingo I was hooked and determined to get back
into drumming, low volume (solved ear ringing issues), low stress on the
neck, perfect. I still have numbness in the fingers of the left hand and
knuckle joint problems, but I here to stay in edrums, even if I have to
design and elastic band to hold the stick to my hand. I tried to play from
10pm-11;30pm every night and then it's off to a 30 minute hot shower for
loosening up all these old bones before bed.
> OldGuyDrummer
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