KEVIN ELMORE
  • Home
  • Music
    • Art Music
    • Hired Music
  • Videos
  • Contact
  • Blog
  • Tumor Blog

Immensely grateful.

2/26/2012

5 Comments

 
Today I am highly grateful for the persistence and tenacity of a couple of people, one of whom I've never even met.  First, I'm humbled and honored to have been offered by two separate musical groups to have fundraiser concerts put into action for me.  The leader of one of the groups I've played with offered his services in this manner right after I announced the news to another group that we both play in.  The news was still fresh and I was still reeling from it and so I kinda let things slide on it.  I got an email from him today and I called him back.  He's going to head up a committee to work the logistics of a fundraiser in Portland with a jazz theme.  If you would like to help out with recommendations of venues, offers of calling people to line up various logistical stuff, etc., please click the 'contact' link at the top and let me know.  I'll put you and him into contact with each other.  I'm not asking for anyone to take on a full-time job, but if you have some ideas or are familiar with this kind of process, it would be of great help.

The other persistent and tenacious person is the mother-in-law of a friend of mine who has gone through a very similar situation.  She emailed me and I was caught up in my freak-out.  As things started to calm down a bit, I called her and left a message.  She called me and left a message.  Then this evening she called me again and we talked for about an hour.  She shared the details of what she experienced after her surgery - both the horrifying (having a headache for six weeks) and the beautiful and hopeful (the fact that she was alive a coherently talking to me at all) details.  She also welcomed me into one of the many exclusive clubs you never ever intend to join, where the motto is "it's better to be seen than viewed".

The other band that is planning a fundraiser here in the town where I live.  The band is called Majik and Jai plays in it.  I will post more details about that as they become available.

Thank you!


Given that I finally get to see the neurosurgeon tomorrow, looks like this picture I took a while back (before I knew I would really need it) is today's photo du jour. ;)
Picture
5 Comments

    Kevin

    It's me, Kevin, but with a brain tumor.  Disclaimer:  I have a very dry and twisted sense of humor.  This is a scary situation.  The jokes ("tumor humor") could be a little dark from time to time.  I intend to keep this rather interesting for you, but if I get a "how could you SAY that?!?" response from you, know it's just, well, I hesitate to use "gallows" humor, but I don't have better phrase for it.  Enjoy, and thanks for your support through this time.

    Archives

    February 2015
    February 2014
    February 2013
    December 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012

    Categories

    All
    :0)
    After Surgery
    Annie
    Ary Barroso
    British Accent
    Brooks & Terry's Coffee
    Cardiologist
    Carrots
    Cedar Sinai
    Change
    Christopher Guest
    Crisis
    David Banner
    Debussy
    Diabetes
    Double D Music
    Driving
    Emergency Room.
    Flyers
    Fmla
    Foley Art
    Fundraiser
    Fundraising
    Gamma Knife
    GammaKnife®
    Goes To 11
    Gratitude
    Guitar
    Hearing
    Hold Music
    Hope
    Iris Dement
    Jack Mcduff
    Jazz
    Koncert For Kevin
    Led Zeppelin
    Live Jazz
    Love
    Majik
    Mcminnville
    More Pictures.
    Mri
    Music
    New Stuff
    Normandy Guitars
    Poeme Electronique
    Posters
    Rabbit
    Radiation
    Risk
    Sesame Street
    Sheilding
    Slowing Down.
    Stereotactic Radiosurgery
    Stereo Tactics
    Sweet Peas
    Tanks
    Thankful
    Trees
    T-shirt
    Tumor
    Tumor 20120209
    Update
    Varése
    Venue
    Vipassana Meditation
    Waiting
    What We're Fighting For.
    Worry
    Xavier Rudd
    Yoga

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • Music
    • Art Music
    • Hired Music
  • Videos
  • Contact
  • Blog
  • Tumor Blog