Ego Boost :-)

[NoNaYet]

I am staying at the Hope Lodge in Atlanta for six weeks of radiation therapy. I am now in week four. I try to play my concertina (Tedrow baritone) an hour each day, usually out on the deck or in the piano room here. I always worry that I am intruding on the other guests, but no one has said anything.

 

Today it was rainy, so I played in the piano room. Well...I gathered an audience of seven, took all sorts of requests, did several numbers in duet with a lady on the piano, and had to play Danny Boy three times (the last time for someone streaming video on his phone back to his family). My usual hour turned into an hour and a half, and I never had so many compliments thrown at me before.

 

Boy, if every session could be like this, I could get addicted to this thing :-)

 

Please excuse my gushing, I've never experienced anything like this before.

 

NNY

[Tom Ryan]

Gush away. Given your circumstances, I'd say more than your ego was boosted. It sounds wonderful. Good luck with the therapy. I had radiation therapy (for Hodgkins) and I am now in my twentieth year being cancer-free. I don't know you, but I'll be thinking about you and pulling for you.

 

Cheers,

 

Tom Ryan

 

I am staying at the Hope Lodge in Atlanta for six weeks of radiation therapy. I am now in week four. I try to play my concertina (Tedrow baritone) an hour each day, usually out on the deck or in the piano room here. I always worry that I am intruding on the other guests, but no one has said anything.

 

Today it was rainy, so I played in the piano room. Well...I gathered an audience of seven, took all sorts of requests, did several numbers in duet with a lady on the piano, and had to play Danny Boy three times (the last time for someone streaming video on his phone back to his family). My usual hour turned into an hour and a half, and I never had so many compliments thrown at me before.

 

Boy, if every session could be like this, I could get addicted to this thing :-)

 

Please excuse my gushing, I've never experienced anything like this before.

 

NNY

[m3838]

I don't know you, but I'll be thinking about you and pulling for you.

 

Same here.

[Woody]

I don't know you, but I'll be thinking about you and pulling for you.

 

Same here.

And here as well.

[michael sam wild]

All best wishes. Go for it!

 

James Keane the button accordion player had a YouTube site where he played for therapy when he had radiation treatment for the oesophagus. He's OK now!

[NoNaYet]

Thanks everyone. Tom was right, the boost was not just my ego, it was just a plain wonderful night and I felt great for the next 24 hours.

 

NNY