On friday as I was packing my stuff to head to Mississippi for the XOW show in Amory, my wife was having chest pains and shooting pains in her shoulders and arm, so she went to her doctor. The doctor freaked out and told her that she seemed to be headed towards having heart disease and may already have it, he sent her to the hospital to have a number of tests ran, needless to say we were both very upset and concerned so I called and left a message with the booker and called and told Neil that I would not be able to make it to the show. We then went to the hospital where they did a series of tests and after a few hours were able to let us know that she didn't YET have heart disease but because of her family history of it, she could very easily develope it if she isn't very careful, they also determined that the shooting pains were a result of all the stress from her job so she was told to take the weekend off and relax. So the good news is that she is going to be fine. Thanks to everyone who has expressed concern, it's been much appreciated.
I apologize to promoter and booker of XOW if I put them in a bind friday night by not being there but I know in that situation they would have done the same. I'm looking forward to returning to XOW in June.
I also want to mentioned that I was very sad to hear of the passing of Chris Candido, I will write a little more about that in the upcoming Cheap Heat which should be out mid week.
Thanks for reading,
GENE
