Injured Reserve

A couple of nights ago Shelle was out with some friends so EW (who's five now) was snuggling up with me to fall asleep. She asked, "will you play, 'You've Got My Brown Eyes' for me Daddy?" A sure enough lullaby I wrote for her, and the which I like to play at times like these. If you've seen my little girl, you would know that any daddy would walk barefoot through hot coals for those little brown eyes, let alone play and sing a song.

I got out my old Taylor and lay back to play a lullaby or two. And I did play the song she asked for, and then "Hush Little Baby" and "Amazing Grace." But the hell of it was, I've got this rotator cuff injury? and man, it hurt! I guess this was the first time I've played lying on my back like that, but I just could not find a way to get comfortable. I tipped the guitar up into all kinds of weird positions to find a way I could play it that didn't force my right arm into a weird angle, but most things I tried either left me unable to play or left me aching something fierce.

If anyone has any ideas about playing a big, wide-bodied dreadnought guitar with a torn rotator cuff, please send them along. Otherwise, I might have to start playing lullabies on the Stratocaster.