[pianotech] sick customers

[Michael Magness]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Matthew Todd <toddpianoworks at att.net>wrote:

>   That is a good point Mike.  How many of us can actually tune with both
> arms?  Sounds like something worth learning.  Imagine all that stress on
> only one arm, and then years later paying for it.
>
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>
> --- On *Thu, 2/26/09, Michael Magness <IFixPianos at yahoo.com>* wrote:
>
> From: Michael Magness <IFixPianos at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] sick customers
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 2:23 PM
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:54 AM, John Formsma <formsma at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>> Lacking choice, he did what he had to, within his capacity, to survive.
>>> It's something the "I showed up, eventually, and that ought to be enough"
>>> species doesn't and never will get. No matter how wonderful we may think we
>>> are or would hope to appear to be, the folks who are honestly trying to do
>>> their best for the pay they receive are the ones to look to for role models
>>> once the padded resumes and iridescent smoke clouds are sifted out.
>>>
>>> As I see it...
>>>
>>
>> It'll never win you kudos with the sniveling social commentators,
>> enablers, participators, and shameless sharers of lackluster in our day ...
>> but for what it's worth, I agree.
>>
>> --
>> JF
>>
>
>
>
> -- It's a judgment call. Would you rather die of the plague, or starve?
> When you're self employed with nobody paying you for sick days, working sick
> is the coin of the realm.
> Ron N
>
> Kudos to Ron for putting it into perspective. I have had a few
> customers(very few) call and advise me that there was flu. bronchitis, etc.
> in their home. Unless they preferred I didn't come because it was
> inconvenient to them, I kept the appointment.
>
> I have a schedule to keep, a living to earn, a job to do unless I am
> incapacitated  or requested not to, I will be there to do it.
>
> When I fell and tore my rotator cuff on the shoulder of my right arm, my
> tuning arm, a full tear I found out later, I went to the walk-in clinic that
> day where the doc diagnosed it as a muscle tear. I continued tuning the next
> day, Nov. 10 right through Christmas season and all of January and finally
> had an MMR on Feb.1 which showed the full tear. Downtime for surgery is 6
> months, I'm self-employed! I'm not a professional sports player, there are
> no rules against it, so I get a cortesone shot about 3 times a year and I
> manage.
>
> A cold, the flu? A minor annoyance, besides they have these things called
> flu shots, haven't had the flu in years. Only get a cold every couple of
> years.
>
> Mike
> I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
> Steven Wright
>
>
> Michael Magness
> Magness Piano Service
> 608-786-4404
> www.IFixPianos.com <http://www.ifixpianos.com/>
> email mike at ifixpianos.com
>
>
There you go assuming again Matthew, I still tune right handed, I discovered
I could barely feed myself left-handed and was certain my learning curve for
an accurate fast tuning would be slow. Besides pain only hurts for a little
while.
By the time I had that MMR in Feb. and saw the surgeon he said he felt I had
rehabbed it by tuning pianos! This was one of the top shoulder guys at Mayo
Clinic and piano devotee, he travels to the Van Cliburn festivals, etc.
The funny thing was my rehab therapist, I saw her for about 8 weeks
sometimes 3 times a week. She kept saying I don't know how you do what you
do, especially after she heard about the full tear.
I finally told her about the bumblebee. You see bumblebees can't fly,
aerodynamically, their wings are too small for their body weight. However
nobody told the bumblebee so they just go ahead and do it anyway!
For 11 weeks I was working with the understanding that I had first a muscle
tear and later a rotator cuff tear but at no time was I told I shouldn't be
able to do what I was doing, so I did it. At first with anti-inflammatories,
then ibuprofin and eventually a cortisone shot every 3 or 4 months.

Like Nike says, Just do it!

Mike

-- 
I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
Steven Wright


Michael Magness
Magness Piano Service
608-786-4404
www.IFixPianos.com
email mike at ifixpianos.com
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