Wednesday 10/18/2023
Big thing today was to run the AV for session 2 of the End of Life series. My part was to set up the mics, and to smoothly show three different videos on the big screen, and to record the proceedings, including aiming the camera at hopefully the right thing when people were speaking.
It all went quite smoothly. I have the recording but haven’t looked at editing it. I could have started on that this afternoon, but I was a lazy dog and didn’t. One of the videos was a 25 minute documentary from Netflix, Extremis. This is a well-made peek at doctors and relatives trying to des]al with the need to let go and let their loved ones die. Take her off the ventilator? Or do a tracheotomy and put her on a full breathing machine? Tough decisions, and very well shown.
I spent some time with the guitar and it is getting quite clear that my left hand loses sensation in the thumb, first and middle finger, after about 5 minutes of playing. Sensation comes back if I rest it for a couple of minutes.
The questions are: one, is the radial nerve being pinched or inflamed at the elbow? Or in the carpal tunnel? More important: do I want to bother to get a medical person involved? A neurologist? An orthopedist? Or just say, fuck the guitar, I was never that good anyway?
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