I wasn’t going to say anything about this but I thought that might be wierd if I didn’t and if something bad did happened, well that would stink. While I fully expect to be here friday. I do want to say I care about you all so much, and I love Justin’s lessons and how this International community is so cool. The clubs and the Instructors and students all really come togeather in music. I have a lot of fun learning here and being friends with everyone.
All that being said. I am having spinal chord surgery tommorow morning. I had been having some issues, I had thought they were ortho. 3 weeks ago I went to my doctor, there were definitely some changes with my exam so MRI time. They found a tumor in my spine and its been a totally crazy since then.
The good news is the last set of images show the tumor having characteristics of the benign, slow grower type. So hopefully it should be easy to remove. We will see, or at least my neurosurgeon. Haha I will be out.
So there it is. Thursday 07:30 pacific time zone, thats Thursday 14:30 UTC time. I will be going under the butcher knife. Please Just throw some cool vibes my way, maybe play a rad song on your guitar for me. I would appreciate it.
Like I said, I fully expect to be back at it and ripping up my guitar by the weekend. Thats actually a joke, recovery is going to be hard. But I am good I work better that way, insurmountable odd are always better. I will figure out something with guitar this weekend, something. I must play. While I do admit that I was freaking out a bit that first week, i feel a bit better now. I am not being all “poor me” with this post either, cause I plan on slaying this. I am actually really stoked they found this because it honestly explains a lot and they can get it out (hopefully) and I can get strong and kick butt again. Its a internal personal justification that it was not because I was being lame it was the tumors fault. I know that sounds weird. I am still wrapping my head around it.
Hope all goes well tomorrow and the surgery is successful. No doubt there will some down time from playing for a while, so get stuck into some theory, if you are at a loose end.
Hang in there, that’s a tough one. I got the cancer diagnosis some 14 years ago and it rocked my world. Hope you are better real soon and look forward to your post cancer posts!!!
My thoughts are with you Jason…I will play a cheerful song for you first thing I grab my guitar tomorrow morning! And I look foward to have you back soon! Please bring a hug from me to your wife as well.
Best of luck to you with your surgery in the morning… you have my prayers for a successful encounter with the butcher knife & for a swift recovery !
Hope you’re able to play again soon!!
Tod
PS I’ll play a song for you tomorrow - The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations”!!!
Wishing you all the best Jason, I hope all goes well. Take care and take it easy with the recovery time, there are plenty guitar relatad things you can do without a guitar.
I’ve just started working on Albatross again, my all time favourite peaceful relaxing song. It has the heartbeat of life running right through it.
Play it or listen to it to aid your recovery.
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& for a swift recovery 
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