Welcome to heaven, DRELMORE!
Thank you, DR JRand53 and DR Danise! I was feeling so good about my first two scores on Bookworm but everyone else's scores leave me in the dust. I was lousy at chess, too, and I think I'm too impatient to weigh all possibilities before jumping in. It's a nifty game, though, and I will keep playing.
I've tracked down the one song I was working on JRans, so now I'll get to work on yours.
DR Danise, in laste summer, 1999, I had several ruptured cervical discs causing my motor control to go to hell: I could hardly walk, couldn't hold a pencil, could not control my abdominal musicles, bladder and bowels, and before they diagnosed it I was convinced I was dying of multiple sclerosis, muscular systrophy, cancer, brain tumor, or something yet to be discovered. I
was turning down work, including some work for Patti Lupone, telling people I was too busy because I didn't want anyone to know I might never work again. I had to go to London in late November for the Cole Porter Trust to supervise the BBC-Radio 3 performances of JUBILEE, and even though I had doubts, my chiropactor and neurologist advised me to go. By that point the ruptured discs had been found and all I was doing was waiting around for my HMO to allow the surgery.
I went gingerly to London, fell down on Bell Street and couldn't raise myself because there was no support for me to drag myself back up on my feet. I lay there on my back flopping around like a beached whale and some kind young Pakastani or India student passing by helped me up. I spent one day in the hospital, missing a rehearsal, attended to by a beautiful blond Scottish doctor who reminded me of my first NYC roommate Melanie Carvil. The flight back after the performances was a major ordeal, but a week after I got back I saw a neurosurgeon and a week later, the first Friday in Dec. 1999, I had the surgery, which was relatively successful.
Am I glad I didn't cancel the trip? Very. Would I have done it if I knew the ordeal? I don't know. Half of me says no, but the other half is grateful that I got to meet some wonderful performers including the late great Denis Quilley and I know I have great reliant friends in London. However, if you're having health problems, I'd seriously consider the pros and cons.
If you come, I look forward to seeing you.
