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Originally Posted by vivfox
Silly me hadn't even thought any of my Macsters could be in bad health but if David is to be correct then yes, touring would be a real pain in the a$$.
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Hopefully, none of them
are in bad health, but last tour John had cancer. He might have been feeling poorly long before it was diagnosed and not known why. So, his body was dealing with that on Unleashed. Plus, even this tour, post-chemo, I'm sure he's not 100%. I mean, thankfully my mother has survived colon cancer for 13 years now, but they did take out part of her intestine and she still has lingering issues because of that.
She didn't have radiation. She didn't even finish all of her chemo. But chemo and radiation leave their own permanent side effects, because they
kill cells and tissue in order to save your life. I don't know what chemo and radiation John had.
Even in that old tour video we saw John having to get a hand massage back stage. He was doing that before repetitive motion syndrome was something we all knew about. No big deal in your thirties and forties. Bigger deal today at their ages.
Plus, it's pretty obvious that Stevie has some sort of chronic arthritic problem. And we don't know what's going on with Christine's hand. These are not things that cause anyone debilitating agony, but they are certainly nagging issues that make concert touring more arduous than lying on a beach in Tahiti.
Michele