KaijuKid

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 move past it, because I refuse to let pain stop my goals, especially since I want to do another kaiju cosplay this year at G-Fest, and I have artwork I want to get done. On that note, I want to do my best to actually make good on getting Godzilla Triumphant worked on like I promised, but after a lot of thought I decided I wanted to eventually get the rest of the Godzilla: The Series monsters made. I made something like 25 of them and intended to call it there, but I honestly want to make the whole series' worth of monsters, of which there's something like 22, 23 more when I looked through the list of creatures. However this time in finishing them up they're just going to be little mini figures to make it easier on myself, not the 4 to 6 inch scale figures I was making before, so here and there you'll see those trickling in. So if you've wanted to see the Shrewster added to the customs roster, you're in luck

Onwards and forwards, friends, we do our best in spite of what life throws at us. Sako would be proud of me clinging to optimism.

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 done in better time, especially with how badly I've been dragging my butt on Godzilla Triumphant. I'm gonna do my best for October to get things rolling again, and again I'm sorry for how much it's had to drag because my body just seems to hate me sometimes. But I think it's also telling me to be smarter and take care of it better than I have, because I just need to. The whole "Kaijukid" name these days is definitely describing the spirit of my work rather than the age and condition of its creator.

As always, thank you all for your encouragement and kindness in following my dumb work, especially when it's so delayed.