Cancer, Cancer, and More Cancer & Other Traumatic Events

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

22. Thanks! I actually was able to play most of the last set last night.

I was planning to stay home and rest (read "mope" ). But my husband texted me in the late afternoon and encouraged me to come out and play.

We had to get a friend to drive me because in all the recent commotion over my surgeries getting cancelled, his appointments for tests regarding unintended weight loss, which may or may not be related to his prostate cancer, etc., I forgot to renew my driver's license!

My husband calls me the dancing bass player. I don't mean to do it, but my body just moves a lot when I play. I've tried to stop it, but it makes me screw up my playing. So I just go with the flow. Because of the leg and ankle weakness caused by my herniated disk, I had to be very careful last night to control my involuntary movements to keep from falling down.

I'm so glad I did it!

We play what's known as Americana or Roots music. We've played in cajun bands, bluegrass, old time, blues, folk-rock, etc. My husband is a multi-instrumentalist and a natural-born musician. He's my favorite one!

See my post about the article on him in the most recent copy of a local magazine: https://www.democraticunderground.com/11466766