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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> X-No-archive: yes > I haven’t said much about it, but for the last 5 months I’ve been fighting > a > mysterious and debilitating Illness. I won’t bore you with the details, > but > it basically involved constant nausea and profound mental and physical > fatigue. Most days, I could pick one easy activity to do, then spend the > rest of the day recuperating. Gigging and teaching would wipe me out for > days. > I’ve been to all sorts of doctors, taken all sorts of expensive tests – > and > everything came back clean. No one had any answers. Or rather, everyone > had > their own opinions – diet, parasites, stress, depression, coffee, MS, > ethnic > food, my needing to find Jesus, etc. Now I understand why sick people get > so > pissed off at unsolicited amateur diagnoses. > Then, one day last week, I woke up and  it was just – gone. I played a > punishing weekend of back-to-back doubles (which I fortunately forgot to > sub > out) and came through it like a champ. > I literally  feel like I’m back from the dead. Got out the metronome > yesterday and started woodshedding scales to get my chops up to speed > again. > Haven’t even touched my upright in 3 months, so that should be an > adventure. > Went to yet another specialist today which proved equally as useless. He > told me to come back when I get sick again. And people wonder why I hate > Western medicine… > I don’t have a fancy medical degree, but if I had to guess, I’d say it was > either a serious foodbourne illness (possibly trichinellosis), or food > poisoning that turned into some sort of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The last > thing I ate before all this started was a couple of apr

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