Are there other musicians on here? I’d love to hear about compensations you’ve learned to make. I’m trying to be back to playing guitar with some success, but if I don’t keep my eye on the pick, sometimes I dont know where it went (damaged side is right side) I can play some rhythm, but not lead anymore.
Are there other writers on here? I’ve published a book about my stroke experience (which is great therapy!)
Is there room for humor on here? I know we’ve faced and are facing some dire circumstances, but there are funny things that have happened. But I also don’t want to make light of anything.
There are musicians on here. @pando is a violin teacher I believe (apologies if memory serves me wrong). There are othrrs too but my memory has let me down.
@Bobbi likes to write & has posted about his blogs on here. A few links to some if you are interested.
@christine2 (hoping the right Christine) has also published a book.
And yes there is room for humour on here as long as it isn’t inappropriate.
Yes, I was a professional performing freelance violinist. For the last 25 years I have taught / teach at conservatoires, music schools, and privately. I currently don’t play due to deafferentation (problems with nerves) but I do teach (next lesson starts in a minute).
Let’s have a link ? I have published 3 books as co-author and am writing 2 !
Writer here, 11 books published and a monthly magazine column. Was column in 2 mgazines, but a change of editor lost me one. Magazine work is great, but one works at the whim of the editors.
Thats so exciting. Retired now, but I used to teach A.E. Housman, a “Shropshire lad.”
I have two self-published books out. One is a collection of one hundred 100-word stories. The other is a memoir, mostly told through poetry, of my last year after the stroke. Coincidentallky or not, I had my stroke on the same day my first book cameout!
Wow, thats awesome. If you had a stroke, how did it affect your writing. Though I flat out didn’t want to write for several months, my first symptoms re: stroke and writing was that I lost the memory of how the keys are arranged on a keyboard and the use of my right to type. I can use it some now.
thanks for sharing @bobbi 's blog. I salute you, sir! @mrs5k, are you a runner. I’ve made myself get 10000 steps every day since July. Never know, day to day, how my leg is going to feel so it’s an adeventure.
I had started my first novel in 2018 then had my stroke in 2021 didn’t think I’d ever finished it but I enjoy writing because it’s nothing to do with my stroke I can switch off from it and go to another world
I also continued doing experimental creative work on a couple of YouTube channels:
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I sometimes write here on the forum.
I haven’t made my fortune or acquired fame to any degree but I believe I have distracted and amused a few folk so I can claim success having achieved my aim if only at a modest level.
Stroke is not the end. It can be a beginning. We can still chose a direction and progress somewhere.
I won’t pretend it is strawberries and cream, or a jolly life, there are ups and downs, but here we are. We are not alone. We have one another. Someone is finding their way through this very different world, just like you.
@christine2 That is so great and you’re right. Nice to spend some time in a different world. If you go the self-publishing route, I can recommend a British woman who did the interior of my first book.
@pando The Book of Stroke by Robert Bires. Free on Kindle Unlimited if you do that. I,m keeping the paperback at $10.99 because I’m donating all net proceeds to my therapists.
Keyboard - I type with right hand only which means I can’t use the ‘shift’ key. My lovely husband created a wooden frame to press it down so I can use? and use some of the other upper symbols. Brain can form the sentences so I am very lucky there. I never did touch type so no loss with that. Sometimes the right word won’t come into my head, but if I continue with the sentence, it does pop up. I do a lot of crosswords which I think helps with linking words to brain.
I can play some rhythm, but not lead anymore.
