This is not a flounce!

p90fool

As I mentioned in passing in my jazz guitar thread, a few weeks ago I dislocated two of the fingers on my fretting hand rather badly, causing a fair amount of soft tissue and ligament damage.

I've had a few hospital visits now and although it's early days I can't really play anymore and the long-term prognosis is that there's a fair chance I won't ever regain full movement and/or strength.

Now obviously I'm going to see as many specialists as I can, both independently and through the MU, and I'm confident that I'll be able to play in a way which will satisfy my expressive and creative needs eventually even if I don't recover fully, but my days as a versatile money-earner may well be over.

My band is going to continue (we have booking into 2019)so I'm training the other guitarist to take more of the core duties, and I'll happily add the odd phrase or accent when I can, and continue to mix for them for the time being at least.

I'm not being too melodramatic about this, it really is early days and I have many other aspects to my life outside music it'll be fun to concentrate on, but I'm finding it more than a little depressing hanging around on a guitar forum, for obvious reasons.

Consequently, I'm going to sign off for a while, hopefully I'll be able to have hungover jams with singer friends and play about with Les Paul wiring again in the not too distant future.

Bisous xx

streethawk

Get a plaster on it and stop moaning. 

UnclePsychosis

Shit, man. That's rubbish. 

Totally understand your reasoning - good luck with it and all the best with whatever you get up to. 

Moe_Zambeek

I reckon you'll be surprised on the upside. Fingers crossed (metaphorically - don't try that at home).

sweepy

I had surgery on my left hand at the age of 15 after a cycling accident, tendon and ligament damage made it virtually impossible to move my ring and little finger. After surgery and a lot of exercise it's as good as new, well apart from not being able to fully straighten my ring finger and it being left a little double jointed, you'll be fine ya big girls blouse

BloodEagle

Great vids- All the best! 

digitalscream

That's shit, dude.

Have you considered switching to being a leftie? It's been done before...

Richardj

Time to channel your inner Django!

Surely you can still hang out with us?

usedtobe

Sorry to hear about that. Really hope you get back to full match fitness, as it were! All the best!

kin

Good luck with your recovery, that stevie wonder video is one of the best i've seen posted on here, i'd love to be able to play like that.

rossi

Go slide  and  blues .

streethawk

rossi said:

Go slide  and  blues .

All joshing aside, that's a very good suggestion. 

TheBigDipper

Hopefully you'll recover better than you fear. In the meantime, develop your slide technique! Good luck and hang out here anyway. 

Trude

Qstreethawk said:

rossi said:

Go slide  and  blues .

All joshing aside, that's a very good suggestion. 

Yeah, get yourself a squareneck reso. I'm having loads of fun with mine! As long as you can hold the bar thingie you'll be fine (ie you don't even need to straighten your finger to get it through a bottleneck)

SimonC

Hope you're not absent for too long.
I always read your posts with interest, as a genuine source of solid knowledge and advice.

All the very best with your recovery.

boogieman

You'll be back playing again, talent has a habit of finding a way past problems. All the best. 

thebreeze

That sounds really bad news.  I really hope that in time you will overcome this set-back.  It's also a big loss to the musical world and on a selfish level a big loss to the Forum.  I will miss you.

JD50

Open tunings?

english_bob

boogieman said:

You'll be back playing again, talent has a habit of finding a way past problems. All the best. 

(lost the use of two of his fretting hand fingers after being burned in a house fire)


(lost the tips of two fretting hand fingers in a factory accident)


(broke his elbow in a car accident in 1948, refused amputation, had his arm set at an angle that would allow him to keep playing and had a pick set in to his cast. Re-learned to play four different times between the mid-60s and his death in 2009 due to progressively worsening arthritis)

It's easy to say when you're not the one faced with the task like yours, but it doesn't have to be the end. All the best. 

guitarfishbay

Sorry to hear this.

On my fretting hand I've had a fractured wrist, and dislocated pinky fingertip.  The wrist flexibility mostly returned with exercises and I have a bit of a mallet finger on my pinky mostly because I didn't realise it would need a splint after I re-set it myself.  In terms of playing I got back to pretty much full capability though after re-learning how to adjust.

Sarge

If DaLefty can do it.... 

Seriously, that's some bad luck matey, but modern medicine can do wonders, chin up old chap!