1 year ago i was on tour pushing through the most intense back and leg/sciatic pain that i have ever endured! 10 months ago i decided it was time to stop chasing my dream and start looking at a very hard truth that i needed to see for me to understand the concept that my mental health and physical health was deteriorating rapidly at the point and i would not last another tour. My family and my girlfriend were taking care of everything for me because i had very little mobility or strength to do practically anything for myself anymore. This also was culminating with constantly being up all night due to the pain and accomplishing roughly 1 to 2 hours of sleep a night. It went on like this for years. It was so hard for me that after 22 years of playing drums, my band at the time reaching great success, had to move on without me and i also knew that i didn't want to leave them because i believed in the music, the vision and them as people so much that it took me about 2 months to realize the exit strategy so both parties could move on respectfully! To close out this incredible life/musical chapter, I endured a 12 hour music video shoot that left me in the worst of the worst pain i have ever felt and total immobility beyond the bathroom in which usually took me 5 sometimes 10 minutes to get to and from, as well as two shows at the beginning of March thus really driving home the point that i needed to really take the proper time to enjoy every bit of the rest of my life.
This brings me to Dr. Ron Nusbaum of Back Clinics of Canada..............
Oh my goodness after too many years of doctors trying to convince me that my pain was not as bad as what i was making it out to be, everyone goes through it, get more sleep, take more pills, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!!!! I finally found some amazing companions in Dr. Nusbaum and his absolutely immaculate staff who did absolutely everything they could to make sure i was placed in the right direction for a proper MRI when my actual family doctors from years past to present were telling me that xray was the way to go (not actually checking anything internally by the way) and expecting me to just live with it when my gut always said that an MRI would show the truth if one of these weirdos would simply sign off for me for one and help me! Going rogue and a lot of money out of pocket proved that i was right. And they knew it too because everyone at Back Clinics listened and went out of their way help. Everyone is so personable, loyal, open, honest and most of all care about nothing but making sure that the individual is treated as the individual that they are.
Because of all of their efforts and a lot of relentless work put in on my own time, my final exam came back that i am infact 95% fully recovered. Today i live pain free minus the stiffness i feel in the morning from being in the same position all night and then i do my stretches and it all goes back to normal as it should. I am back to working out full time and i am staying as head strong as i can to start my new life and begin the process of building my own session drumming business. For now, i am now taking this week to celebrate life pain free and i have my mom, my dad, my lovely lady, and Back Clinics of Canada to humbly thank endlessly for helping put this humpty dumpty back together again.
Ive never felt so alive.
Peace and Love,
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