Well deserved - huge project completed and what a keepsake! Hey, who isn't old? I blew out my hip after standing for years and playing a sustain pedal. Think I tore a tendon - so much pain. I have to sit my next job, which I have never done. Going to a specialist next week. Carry on
Same here, but it was my knees. Stood and played for 30 years, balancing on one leg so the other could work the sustain. Finally, after one season, couldn’t walk! Had to sit.
Fortunately, I am so short that sitting on a folding bar stool, I was still about the same height (really short legs)! It didn’t get to the point of surgery, thank goodness, but sitting cured it and opened up the other leg to run switches and a swell pedal!
One door closes, another opens!
I hope you fully recover… 🎹😎