{"id":2672,"date":"2008-10-28T22:38:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T05:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2008-10-31T10:33:12","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T17:33:12","slug":"this-one-i-didnt-see-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2008\/this-one-i-didnt-see-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"This One I Didn’t See Coming…"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I subtitled my blog: Just Your Bassic Blog About Sax, Music, Life, & How They Come Together<\/em>,\u00a0I did so without much conscious effort. I typed out the subtitle without really thinking about it, but it just seemed to me to make sense somehow. Well\u00a0I could never have predicted how\u00a0sax & life would intersect in my world today. It was actually very strange, but potentially also very promising.<\/p>\n

For nearly the last 4 months I have been without a neurologist, since the one who was providing my care, moved to another province to take a teaching position at a university. Because my neurological problems are rather complex, my last neurologist had recommended someone in particular, but this new doctor had not yet got her private practice set up. (This new neurologist\u00a0was\u00a0moving from a university hospital position\u00a0to private practice.) Well today I finally had an appointment with\u00a0this new neurologist.<\/p>\n

Playing sax\u00a0has been an extremely\u00a0painful experience over the past 2 years since I became ill, because\u00a0a\u00a0big part of my problems are\u00a0neuropathic (nerve) pains in my face,\u00a0that actually get worse when I play horn.\u00a0The smaller the horn, the greater the resistance & pressure back into my head, hence the greater the pain is.<\/p>\n

So\u00a0since this all started, I’ve pretty much limited myself to tenor and only recently had the strength & stamina\u00a0to start playing some bari again. Over the past 2 years my neurologist has controlled the pain through a cocktail\u00a0of drugs, but the\u00a0cocktail\u00a0needs\u00a0regular tweaking to maintain its efficacy.<\/p>\n

Today, as I tried to describe the problems I experience with resistance\u00a0in smaller horns and altissimo notes to yet another doctor, who means\u00a0well, but won’t get it,\u00a0this new\u00a0neurologist\u00a0very quietly says, “I play saxophone”.\u00a0I say\u00a0“Really? What kind?”.\u00a0 “Alto,” she replies.\u00a0I breath a sigh of relief, and\u00a0think, even if she’s not a great player, (but for all I know, she is) it doesn’t really matter.<\/p>\n

With only a limited understanding of the bores of saxophones, and\u00a0the back pressures exerted on the player, and the potential for increasing a player’s intracranial pressure, this doc is light years beyond where the last 4 neuros I saw were. They all meant well, but having never played a wind instrument, none of them understood the mechanics of them: nor had any of them had the time to research the area.<\/p>\n

Yes, today was indeed a day I could never have foreseen. Sometimes Sax, Music, & Life, Come Together in the strangest & most unpredictable ways.<\/p>\n

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…this is just my blog<\/em>. <\/span> My \u201creal\u201d <\/b> website is<\/span> www.bassic-sax.info.<\/a> If you\u2019re looking for <\/span> sax info<\/strong>,<\/span> you should check it out too.<\/span>There\u2019s lots<\/em> there! <\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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