[Magdalen] Down, or busy?

[Cantor03 at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/29/2016 4:34:59 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
pdan.brittain at gmail.com writes:

​Just  got back to Harrison. A fun trip but am still tired. And, tomorrow, I
am on  to sub for one of the band  directors.​>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
 
 
How's your lip?
 
For an out-of-the-way region such as this NE Pennsylvania, I had some
really interesting patients in the thirty years I was at the local  VAMC.
 
Trumpet players are especially prone to a problem of a deformity of  the
lips as they got older and secondary to the intense pressure they  force
on the lips.  Eventually in some of these brass players, there  develop
redundant lip folds that begin to affect their playing.
 
Of course these musicians don't want to stop playing, so I am unable
to guess if the condition is self limited if there is no more pressure  =
no more trumpeting.  In the end, some perioral surgery in the  hands
of an oral surgeon seemed to correct the problem.
 
 
 
David S.