The Date Is Set!

[rohrer01]

Ed, your body looked surprisingly straight for how bad your back is in that x-ray.

[BendyBill]

Ed, you're right they are remarkably even - I hadn't thought to look! And thanks for the photo.

Quick question for you all... I've been offered a headline slot at a pretty nice venue in London which would mean 8 gigs a week (6 days a week with 2 matinee performances) for almost a month on top of rehearsal time. The downside is that it's only 3 months after my operation. Do you think this is doable? They will be fairly active performances and I'm worried I might damage something or just not have the energy to pull it off. On the other hand, it would be a huge shame to turn it down.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

B

[Pooka1]

Oh hey I think your lumbar is not structural. I think the criteria is to bend out some percentage of it which I think you have. Linda might know. I am not a surgeon but I am betting they tell you it is a single T curve and that is the area that will be fused.

Good luck.

[titaniumed]

Bill

Its hard to say if you are going to feel good enough to pull the gig off. Of course there is a big difference in exactly what this entails. Are you going to be singing Queen’s “Bohemian rhapsody” through a 200,000 watt pa system? Its been 20 years today since Freddie passed. RIP

Sitting is hard after surgery.....at your age, (playing cello?) you might be able to pull this off and make it happen.

Its Thanksgiving today.....a day we give thanks and eat massive amounts of turkey. I hope I survive. (smiley face)

Ed

[BendyBill]

Ed

I's a run with a pretty energetic vocal group I'm in. We're working our way up to the the level of the great Freddie Mercury and to the stadium tours but I have a feeling it'll be a while until that happens

Cue shameless self-promotion... here is a video of us backstage before a gig performing one of our numbers. The shows in March with have a lot more movement than this and will each be about an hour and a half in length.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnl1W...layer_embedded

Enjoy!

B

PS Spot the scoli!

[Pooka1]

That was FABULOUS! I would gladly pay to see a performance! You guys are spectacular!

It is very hard to say how any recovery will go. Although you are an adult, you are young and I think your recovery will be more like a teenager's recovery in terms of speed of healing. Both of my daughters were pretty close to normal at 3 months. It is not crazy to suggest you could do that if you walked miles and miles and miles in your recovery.

Good luck and thank you very much for posting that! What a pleasure to watch!!!

ETA: My daughters had a similar curve to yours... 58* and 57* thoracic curves.

[Doreen1]

PS Spot the scoli!

How COOL! I couldn't spot the scoli... which one r ya?

Warmly,
Doreen

[Elisa]

Well that got put on my fb in a hurry; very entertaining! And no, I can't spot the scoli.

[BendyBill]

I'm the me in the red hoodie. Does anyone else find the signs of their own scoliosis massively obvious when others can't see them?

B

[Elisa]

I watched it again and still can't spot the scoliosis... take yer shirt off so we can have a closer look, lol.

Okay, you have an awesome voice and am assuming you're the lead singer? If so, maybe you can modify your movements after surgery and concentrate on the singing if it it still too painful for you move around so much. I don't really know, just thinking out loud here as I'd hate for you to give up such a great gig.

[Pooka1]

Oh hey you might want to make damn sure you aren't getting an anterior fusion. There is at least one testimonial on here about how that compromised a person's singing ability. Ask the surgeon if it is to be entirely posterior.

[JenniferG]

Loved it Bill, thanks for posting! No, I did not pick the scoli.

I think your recovery will go well, considering your age. Get fit as possible before surgery, I'm sure that will help. Walk miles, as Sharon says, post surgery, and speak to your surgeon about it. If he thinks it might be too much (which I doubt,) is it possible to limit some of the physical antics just a little, especially twisting?

[titaniumed]

That was fantastic! And I did spot you in the red hoodie. Your shoulders give it away about half way through while you are singing.

It’s a good thing your not the full time drummer! If the audience demanded a drum solo, that could be a problem.....(smiley face)

I think your going to be able to pull this off.....your going to have to! the show must go on!
The first few weeks will hurt, but you will come around in time.

Ed

[JDM555]

I'm going to throw this out there, but the guy in the red sweater? His left shoulder is slightly lower than his right.



Edit: Nevermind, I guess I missed some posts lol. I was right though.

Awesome performance btw.

[Mojo's Mom]

Bill, you are AWESOME! Love the performance, love the group...it's so interesting to find out what some of us are about, beyond our scoliosis. I'm not surprised you have a great gig offered. I did not pick out your "bendy" back, either. I'll watch again now that I know which is you. I also was betting on the blue t-shirt, for the same reason that the tall skinnies go with scoliosis so often.