Recovery

This is dedicated to everyone that's been supportive over the last few weeks. Without your help and humor this would have been a darker time and I can't thank you enough for your words of care and encouragement.

This is what I've been slowly working on as I recover from my second Multiple Sclerosis "attack" (I believe that's what they are called).

I just found out I have MS on Nov.21, after my legs almost completely stopped working. I was told to rest and de-stress, and since I've been trying to de-stress for years now (with little success), I also couldn't just sit and play video games and watch shows forever.

It's actually interesting that this is the piece that I complete during this time of recovery. I had actually started this before I was hospitalized and diagnosed.
It wasn't by much though, all I had done was gessoed the canvas to get some texture and sanded it down. Then my legs went to $#!t, and when I came out with my diagnosis, this felt like the right thing to continue with.
I could've done something nasty and ugly that really expressed how I felt, but I didn't want that. I wanted something that had colour, that had life to it. Something that when I worked on, I wouldn't get more depressed and become more pissed off about the news that I have MS (which still feels like it really hasn't hit me). I wanted to make something that when I look back I could say that not only I was proud of creating and that when I see it, it boosts my mood.
So in the end, here it is.

The one thing that pissed me off when creating this (other than the tedious amount of details I worked on) was the fact that the brush I used to make those tedious details accidentally broke halfway through completion.

Which makes sense with me, and if you know me, then you'd agree.