A woman of my aquaintence, Norma Sweet, had a radical mastectomy. She made a living teaching violin. She went to Physical Therapist (Thats Physio-Therapist for UKs and their derivatives) and my friend was set up with an excercise regimen. It was quite successful.

She returned to fiddling some inside of a month and was back onstage in three. A few years later in her early seventies she had a minor stroke and used the same regimen to regain her strength. She lived another seven years until a recurrence of the cancer took her life.

But she fiddled quite literally her entire life away.

Don