| Re: How do pro's deal with illness?
So, apparently, I tempted the devil by claiming I don't get sick.
I'm not sick but my stomach has felt less than stellar for about a week now and it's messing with my sleep and making me feel a bit achy. Y'all know the feeling... "under the weather" is how most folks describe the feeling. I've been drinking chamomile tea and only having one meal a day that you describe as normal. Otherwise, it's toast and other light fare.
The reason I'm writing is that I've been rehearsing and playing. We had a show today and it went just fine. I'm playing 2 out of the 4 programmed pieces (Suite from Threepenny Opera and Symphonic Dances from West Side Story).
I've been warming up a little lighter than usual but I think, given how much pllaying there is on those tunes, I would have done that anyway. While I'm playing, I'm into it and fine but when I'm done, I'm done. Not a whole lot of energy left for post-concert carousing with the boys. I have to drive about 90 miles for the next show which is in a town called St. Joseph. So, it's on to a nap and a drive later on.
That was the question, right? How do pros handle sickness? Well, like that. You do what you can to keep functioning and do the gig. I can't, in good conscience, make Doug play this program unless I really can't move. Athough, I did enjoy watching his face when I told him I wasn't up to snuff! Let's just say the prospect of sitting in for me wasn't something he was looking forward to.
Hey, Wilmer... watcha doin' tonight...?
ML |