It was three years ago when Jimmie Bones was out for sushi with his sister and his daughter when he noticed he was having trouble picking up his food with his chopsticks.
He had just wrapped a tour with Kid Rock, for whom he's played keys since 1996, and he had been feeling as good as he's ever felt. Top of his game.
And now, he suddenly didn't have enough strength in his right hand to grip a piece of sushi.
He was used to his fingers being as powerful as jackhammers, but they were starting to feel weak and dainty. Still, he completed two more tours with Rock before going under the knife in summer 2024 to treat what he figured was just carpal tunnel or cubital tunnel syndrome.
But following the surgery, he wasn't recovering at a fast clip, and a few months later he went to see a neurol