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You have to stay strong in spirit, dear reader, because life really loves to get in your way. I was happily rolling on the new issue of Sako, some Godzilla Triumphant pages and was starting some new kaiju-oriented custom figures I was very excited about, and then I got hit with some very unfortunate nerve pain in my back, neck and skull, severe enough that I'm starting chiropractic sessions again after a couple years of being relatively pain free. Such is life, I guess, but I guess it's life's way of saying I need to take care of the body first.
Patience is a bear sometimes, but we have to do what we have to do and take care of ourselves.
I guess it's a good time to enjoy my new Minus One bluray.
A little Life and Projects Update
The year hasn't exactly started off the way I've wanted, but there are good things to report, or at least hopeful. Been doing physical therapy again for the pain in my head and at last have a real answer as to what's going on. It's a condition that's part of TMJ (not spelling it out, it's ridiculously long) which turns out in a tight painful knot of muscle and nerves in my jaw that's spreading pain throughout my skull, mouth and neck, because nerves suck sometimes. With continued work my therapist is convinced that we can heal it without surgery, but it's damned painful in the meantime and makes me not want to do much in my downtime except for sculpting because for whatever reason doing that helps me focus my mind off of the pain more than working on pages, thus why you've seen a lot of clay stuff going on lately. But we're to the point in therapy where they're sticking needles into my jaw and I'm on soft food only, nothing I can chew, so that's fun, yeah.
BUT, I'm hopeful we can
On The Mend, Slowly
It's been a little bit of a week.
The last couple of weeks trying to figure out what was wrong with me medically, and it essentially turned out to be that I had injured and stressed muscles in my back through my neck, putting pressures on my nerves and that was essentially where all the pain in my skull was also coming from. Started physical therapy and it's helping, but sloooooowly.
Managed to also find two dying kittens outside our house, heard the sister crying her head off, and through a lot of intensive effort bottle feeding, bathing and giving these three week-old kittens as much medical treatment as we can, it seems we've been elected again by fate to rescue cats and they are doing a lot better already, so that's taken a LOT of time and kinda helped take my mind off the personal pain a bit.
I feel better a little day by day, but I feel bad when it halts my activity on comics and other projects so badly, especially when I promised that some of the work was going to start getting
Sheesh, I'm Dead XD
Life is insane, but it wouldn't be life if it wasn't I suppose.
Finally got my hands on a new car after my old one bit the dust, but I'm also narrowing in a new second job to try and combat rising expenses and paying off said car. While I lined up something nice, unfortunately it looks like I'm going to have no choice but to take on a second full time position, which of course means life is going to be changing for a while.
I can't live without working on my comics and stories, so that's not gonna stop, but some things have already had to change for this year. I had intended to make a Titanus Behemoth cosplay for this year's G-Fest, but time and money simply won't allow me to make the suit in time and to my satisfaction. I'll be fulfilling my commission requests I've received, but obviously following the new status quo and working two full time jobs I'll be retiring commissions because there just won't be time or energy.
It sucks that we live in a world where most people can't get by
Once More Into The Fray...
I'm sorry the work basically was ground to a halt this last month, there's practical reasons why it's been that way, but I hate losing time on my projects. Thing is life is looking to be changing in some big ways soon, which I won't go into, but I'm immediately afraid it'll mean that I'll have even less time to work on the things I love, but I hope that won't be the case.
To quote an oldie, "On the other side of this trial I'll be a better man". That's the goal, but I won't stop making the things I love, it just may go a little slower. Time will tell.
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You need to take some nerve pain relief before continue your work.