Only you can decide what you can live with or live without. But no stringed instrument at all? If slide guitar is not your thing what about a guitar with easier action on which you can still play some rhythm guitar? Might not be your thing - just sayin'.

Whether you decide to quit playing guitar or not, you are not finished, my Darlin'. You are still KENDALL!!!!!! until your last breath. Certainly to me, and I feel pretty certain more people than you are willing to believe feel the same. The music is how we got to know you. Not why we love you.