Thursday, September 18, 2008

It seems as though things are beginning to look better. Well I took mom to the doctor's on tuesday and they took out the splint on her left ring finger. She still says it hurts but thankfully it's not fractured anymore and all it needs is movement. Yesterday, I also took her for another appointment where they did x-rays on her lower back. They said that her fractures in her pelvic bones and lower back are healing great. Although the doctor was still a little worried at the fact her right leg is still numb so she is going to order a MRI on her lower back so that hopefully none of her bones are pressuring her nerves. So hopefully that all goes well.

On another note,  it was kind of funny because I pulled out my old clarinet from my closet and I knew that I couldn't make it work the last time I took it a part so I decided to take it apart once more to see if I can see the problem. The funny thing was that when I took it apart I had forgotten how to put it together. :]] I left it like that all of Wednesday. This morning I was determined and so I put it together and polished the keys as I went along. It felt so peaceful doing it. So I started checking to see if the instrument locked the air but it didn't. I had many pad issues. It's leaking air so that's my problem because there was nothing else wrong. I ordered some pad and corks. As soon as they get here I am going to show the high school clarinetist how it's done. I am going to show them how a clarinet looks naked and how to properly clean and swab their instrument. This is going to be so much fun. My small project to show kids there is more to playing... But the reason I had taken it out was to let a girl borrow it but since it didn't work it was useless. Either I never would have thought to fix it myself. Well I know It I take it to a repair shop it would cost a fortune. I had my whole clarinet re-padded in 8th grade and it cost me $80 and that was cheapo because my teacher did it but if it would have been in a music store I would have been  over charged.  Anyways, this time I am going to do it myself, yay! Although I had so much fun while taking it apart and putting it back together because Danny was there with me and he knew it was music. He wanted to play... awww! When I fix it I'll let him try and play that one and I'll play my clarinet. I think if he starts learning so many instruments now he will have a gift. He has it but I he'll be able to expand it.

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