Guitar Therapy Pt. 5 Making Strides.   I spent a week with…

Guitar Therapy Pt. 5

Making Strides.  
I spent a week with a specific therapeutic protocol:  Two minutes on the axe and then dip my hand into the hot wax bath.  Mmmmmmmmmmmm….

Such a warm feeling.  And after seven days of daily practice.  I’m starting to see some callouses forming.   It’s a relief.  I didn’t think they were going to come back with such little play but I was wrong. 

I’ve also been seeing my playing progress.  The pieces I’ve noodled around with for years are coming easier to me day by day.   

It’s inspired me in ways I wasn’t expecting as well:  my way of timing the two minutes of my sessions is to take a selfie video of me playing.   Having all of this content now, is bringing up a lot of potential avenues for creativity.   

Hanging around on @treechat with all of its AI generating going on has “prompted” me to play around with some of my photos….. and I think I can see a collection developing.  

And on the seventh day….. I cut myself again.   For the first time since the injury.  And it hit me hard.   Not a major cut but it opened skin and I needed a bandaid and I have a healing wound on my fingering hand, right on the edge of the pad and developing callous there.  

Good day for a break.  Which I took and then started on phase two:

Two two-minute sessions a day.  And the first day of that was especially hard given the new cut, which hopefully will be in good shape for my session today. If it’s not I may skip a day again just to let it close fully.  

And my hand still hurts through all of this “therapy” So far I’m not seeing this protocol make it better… BUT  It doesn’t seem to be getting any worse either, which was my worry going into it.  Some days after playing the pain flare is very intense.   This is a wild injury that I would LOVE to understand a bit more. Oof!! I’ve booked another appointment with the doctor to see if we can do anything about this long term.

I’m feeling a little more confident that I will find my way back to being able to play like before though.   The journey is long but it’s really Lovely to be getting back into this relationship with my steed…. And to feel these creative juices flow again.   I’m even feeling closer to choosing a new career.  

More on that later.  I’ve got a video of me playing the guitar to make.