[TPIN] help - surgical recovery

[Jeanne G Pocius]

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"Daniel,John" <john.daniel at lawrence.edu> wrote: Robert,
I've had three hernia operations, which isn't the same of 
course, but what I did was to play very lightly everyday, 
just noodling.  This kept the lips vibrating and supple. 
 As the body recovers, you'll know what you can handle. 
 Don't test yourself, just noodle lightly.
John




On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 06:25:10 -0700 (PDT)
  Robert Novickas  wrote:
> Hi all,
>   
>       Maybe it's a little early to worry about, but I 
>had prostate surgery less than 2 weeks ago and wonder if 
>I'll be able to continue on trumpet.  I've only picked it 
>up twice since then, and I can already see that pelvic 
>and abdominal muscles don't have the strength or 
>responsiveness they had, and not just for blowing 
>trumpet.  In addition, I'm a 65-year-old guy who has only 
>been playing the horn for 3 years, so the development of 
>those muscles for trumpet playing was not very advanced 
>in any case.  There are probably some of you out there 
>who've had to deal with this problem and can provide some 
>insight, pointers, etc. on recovering whatever chops I 
>had.
>       Perhaps more important than the above, the surgery 
>was successful, so thanks in advance for kind thoughts.
>   
>  Robert Novickas
> 
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