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Five days after I arrived Ward 57, surgeons removed another 3.3 in. of my forearm. They needed an inch of bone to free up enough loose skin to cover my wound; I had agreed to lose another 2 in. to make room for an electronic component in my future prosthesis so that my artificial hand would have the capacity to rotate rather than just open and close...
Virtually everyone on Ward 57 had some phantom limb pain. Its cause remained as mysterious as it had been when a Civil War doctor coined the term to identify the complaints of soldiers whose injured limbs had been sawed off. Some experts believe the brain has a blueprint of body parts that persists even if they've been cut off. According to one theory, when the brain sends signals and receives no feedback, it bombards the missing limb with more signals. That aggravates the swollen nerves that once served it, inducing pain...
...Matt Ward stood in the back corner of the Somerville Theatre last Sunday night, sipping a drink and smiling in the dark. Dressed, like those around him who would soon be his audience, in the requisite apparel of the nebulous “indie-folk” genre (flannel, baseball caps), he clapped politely as Oakley Hall, the opening act, crooned and clapped their way through an enjoyable, if overly loud, 40 minute...
This, above all, might be what defines Matt (or M.) Ward: his honest demeanor underscores all his words and playing. His heart isn’t quite on his sleeve, but there is a rawness to his soft-voiced lamentations – or celebrations, as “Post-War” is apparently an album written while in the throes of a new relationship...
...will,” he sang in the concert’s opener, a cover of Daniel Johnston’s “To Go Home” that appears on the new album. Johnston, known to be brazenly open about love and loss alike, is channeled by Ward in a way that can only be described as tentative – not reluctant, but perhaps wary...