Multiple Sclerosis Patient Gives Back Through Music to Support Fellow Skilled Nursing Patients
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Tyrone Reed, a lifelong musician known as “Tiger,” is a patient at Brooks Rehabilitation University Crossing Skilled Nursing facility, where he is undergoing occupational and physical therapy to combat the effects of multiple sclerosis (MS). Reed recently started playing music at Brooks, rekindling fond memories of his musical career in Detroit during the 1970s and 1990s. He expresses excitement and honor at the opportunity to play music again as part of his therapy.
Video Transcript
My name is Tyrone Reed and my friends call me Tiger. I’ve been playing music since the late sixties, and I’ve been in bands in the seventies, eighties and nineties. We’ve been here at Brooks rebuilding my body through occupational and physical therapy to combat the weakness of the MS. This is not my first rodeo here at Brooks. Back in 2007, I was here for about five weeks, and the experience then, just like it is now with the people in the staff and the medical care is excellent. It’s a one, it’s perfect. This is by far the best physical rehab facility in the region, and I’m here because I need to be here because I knew I would get stronger here. The staff is truly concerned about the patients. It makes you feel special and you get better that way, and somehow, some way.
I was approached to join the music therapy today, so I went home yesterday and got my guitar, my bass guitar, and I’m happy and I’m excited. I’m honored to do this. I don’t play as much as I used to, but I still like to play every chance I get and I have a recording studio at home, and I think I’ll start spending more time recording and playing there. It gave me memories going back to my younger years when I had my rock band in Detroit in the seventies and when I had my R&B and jazz band in the nineties. So it brought back some good memories and I enjoyed it.
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