This has been a year of dodging bullets for me!
in July I had a CT-guided biopsy of nodules in my left lung—all clear, but with 6-monthly follow up scans for a year to make sure.
In August I damaged a hamstring, and am still getting physical therapy for that (complicated by possible touch of arthritis in knee on same leg.
I have been taking medication for BPH (enlarged prostate) for a year or so, but a week ago it flared up to the point that I had to go into Urgent Care and have a catheter put in to drain off a whole liter (as opposed to the average 1-200 cc!)
Tomorrow I go for checkup and assessment as to whether or not I'll have to get that little sucker reamed out …
It's hard to sit down for any length of time in one position, or to stand up for too long, which means that my practice routine has come to a screeching halt, just as I was starting to make some good progress with Chord Melody fingerstyle, something I'd not been all that interested in over my 70+ years of playing.
One funny thing—I had to wait over 20 minutes on hold to get a Urology appointment, listening to that godawful pseudo Kenny G crap (would that be a double pseudo?
). By the time they answered, I was ready to say "Thank God, listening to your "music" I was just about ready to do the operation myself with my late father's old Stanley hand drill!" 
So, wish me luck, guys, will report back …
