I have had a rough couple of years health wise since I last posted anything here. It’s kind of scuttled my musical life a fair bit.

After No Static called it quits two years ago, I decided that rather than find another band to play in, I would focus my efforts on improving my playing and musical knowledge and on trying to write. I made a plan to spend a couple of hours two days a week and made a start on trying to compose.

Alas, it didn’t last long before I had a recurrence of Merkel cell cancer in my cheek and neck and required surgery. After that I underwent a month of radiation treatments. When that failed to do much against the spread of the cancer I started on immunotherapy with Keytruda. That, thankfully, seems to be making a big difference. But in the lead up to the treatments something suspicious showed my in my bladder. I had two procedures to deal with that and in a month or so will be starting another immunotherapy treatment for that cancer.

I’m kind of struggling a bit to find my way back to my regular practice and composing regimen. Hopefully I will get a grip on that soon.