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Hey, Easy, if you know the strum pattern for a 12 bar blues tune then you can play them all. A 12 bar blues tune can be played in any key and can be played as slow or as fast as necessary. Try playing this pattern using all 7 chords - E7, A7 and B7 or some other key. Have fun!

Nela

Dave, when you go to pick up the guitar from the shop spend some time playing it. Don't just "noodle" around for a minute or so, play it like you are renting it. Dig deep on the base notes, let the strings ring, do some hammer on's and pull off's. Put a capo on and play up and down the fret board. Make sure you don't have any fret buzz or dead spots. Make sure you have the sound and quality of work you paid for. If you haven't had the fret work done, it's time to question what needs to be done. If you have never had any fret work done before it could just need to be a "re-crowing" and that's a simple thing although your new strings will need to come off, again. Anyway, enjoy your guitar and let us know how it is doing.

Nela

My CD's are fairly well orginized. I keep some in my truck, some in my wife's truck, some are on my music table, some are under the music table, I got a few on top of my CD player, some more of them are over there and some more are over yonder. I think some more are in a box or two.

Nela

Back home, tired and feel like we have been beaten up. The good news is that my son is doing well with his surgery. His left leg was amputated just above mid calf and per the doctor the surgery went extremely well. About 3 years ago my son developed a staph infection on his foot from a blister. Things went from bad to worse with the infection and he ended up having his toes amputated on that foot. Due to the staph infection, having got into the bones of his foot, the bones were left brittle. Over time a piece of the bone would break off and work it's way to the surface and with surgery, have to be removed. With his being diabetec the healing process always took longer than it would for most people. My wife and I talked to his "wound care" doctor and he told us that he had removed a piece if bone the size of a quarter in early June. As of last week the foot was in great condition, the skin where the bone was removed had healed but it was still tender. Over the weekend he developed another staph infection that couldn't be controlled and was admitted to the hospital. By the time we got there, per the doctor, the end of his foot was dead and the staph infection had turned into gangreene(sp). Surgery couldn't wait as there was no hope of saving his foot. Brian is in good spirits and has accepted what has happened to him. He said that this may end up to be a relief to him and let him have a better quality of life than he has had for the past three years. He has a good care team taking care of him (how many of ya'll have the personal cell phone number of your doctor) so that's a blessing. He is in a lotta pain but that's to be expected and he is able to deal with that. Where he works they are already working to change his office and the restroom to be handicap assessible. So, I guess things are looking up.
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Oh, and while there my truck broke down and left us stranded. Wasn't able to get it fixed so I had to have it towed to a mechanic shop, that was closed for the weekend, and take my son's car home. I think it's just a shifter cable that broke so the "fix" should not be too costly. We are headed back next weekend to visit our son and to get my truck back.

Nela

Surgery scheduled for tomorrow. My wife and I are headed to Lufkin, Tx. this afternoon. I guess I'll be away for a few days but will let ya'll know what's going on when I get back. Many thanks for the "Well Wishes and Prayers". They are surely needed and apreaciated.

Nela

My social life improved yesterday as I had 2 different doctor's appointments. I actually had the insulin pump training yesterday and am now attached to it. Right now my blood glucose readings  are running REAL good but that's because I am off my cancer medicine. I will restart the medicine on the 29th and when it starts getting back into my system things will go crazy. High blood glucose is just one of the side affects of this medicine that I'm just gonna have to suffer through. It's worth it though as the cancer medicine is keeping my illness in check.

There's a lot to understanding this insulin pump and what it will do for me. It monitors things 24 hours a day and and gives me insuling in small dosages through out that time. When I eat I just have to take a glucose reading, figure my carb intake, enter that into the pump and it give me the additional insulin I need for that meal. It's a lot to learn and some of it is like Chinese arithmatic. Anyway, right now, I'm feeling good but just can't do anything until my stomach muscles reattachment themselves (from the surgery), my left legs heals from where the blood clot was removed, and on top of that there's a blood clot in my right leg thats causing me some problems. Then I took a viagra tablet this morning, thinking I would surprise my wife, only to find out she is going to spend the day at the mall. Problems, problems, problems.

Nela

Bill, I know exactly what you are talking about with veins that roll. Anytime you are in the hospital they will "stick" you and put in a port for an IV. Over time that "location" will go bad and you will need to be "re-stuck".
Then here comes the "Lab Tech" needing to take a blood sample and they have to "stick yoy in another place - they can't use the IV port. This is an on going process. During my recent hospital "STAY'S" they were not able to get a needle inserted any where in my arms. So here come a different "Lab Tech" who inserted what is called a "PICT LINE". This "needle" is long and flexible. It was inserted on the inside of my right arm amm and ran all the way up to my neck. This "line" was over a foot long and had several "Ports" at the end eliminating my having more needles inserted into other places. This is the 2nd time I have had this proceedure and it is not fun. I feel for you, Dondra, as I've been thru the same thang although maybe not to the same level. Get well, soon.

Nela

Got up for a walk this morning at daylight and decided to go for a walk before it got too hot. The walk was for about a quarter of a mile and by the time I got home I was not feeling well. I came in the house, pull off all my clothes and got into the shower. After letting the cool water travel up and down my naked body I began to feel a little better. After the shower I went into the kitchen and made a pot of coffee then sat in my reclyner and took my blood pressure - it was 93 / 44 and my heart rate was 68. Now I know why I wasn't feeling good. I retook my blood pressure 30 minutes later and it was 101 / 51 and my heart rate was 67. So now I think I'll just sit here and drink coffee.

Nela

Bill, I kinda / sorta know what Dondra is going thru as I, too, suffer from A-Fib. It does not sound like mine is as serious as what Dondra is going thru but before my Cardio Doc got me under control it was "touch n go" for awhile. If I was you I would be finding out why her doc cannot do the "prodedure until the 1st week in August. If the reason is due to her condition, that's one thing, if the delay is due to his convience then you need anoctor doctor - period. How far are you from Atlanta? My thoughts would be to get her to a place where she can get the best care she can get. That could be where she is or it may be in the "big" city. I am lucky enough to have a great cardiologist who I happened to meet in the emergency room in 2009 when I had a heart attack. He has been treating me ever since and I think he is the best thing since sliced bread. He is a younger doctor - under 40 - and does not act like a "old fart" doctor who id "set" in his ways. While you are at the hospital with Dondre ask the nurses what they think about your doctor. Also, ask them who thet think is the best. Some of then will talk to you and tell you what they think. My friend, if you need me just let me know. Don't know what I can do, due to my own health reasons, but I'll do what I can. My thoughts and prayers are with you, yoiur son and Dondra.

Had a doctor's appointment this morning @ 9:00am to have the stitches removed from my recent hernia surgery. While having a talk with the nurse practioner I happened to tell her that I was having a lotta cramping in my right leg in the same general location of where I had the blood clot in my left leg. Without anyone looking at my stitches or even looking at my leg I was ordered to go the hospital emergency room and that "stat" orders would be called in for me to be admitted immeadiately. So I headed there and spent the whole day there. While there more blood work was done and I had another CT scan with radioactive contrast. I was discharged this afternoon and all I know they don't think there is another blood clot but something may be causing a riestriction in the blood flow to my lower right leg and foot. I never got the results of the CT scan but was made very comfortable when told that they would call if they found something. So now I'm sitting at home, my leg is still hurting and all I got is another perscription for some pain pills. Oh, and I have to make another appointment to have my stitches removed.

Nela