Abridged Update

I have been busy since my last lengthy update trying to catch up on everything I hadn't been able to do while my wrist was bothering me, including a ton of art and design related things.

So far, my wrist has been holding up pretty good. I am still being careful and taking plenty of breaks, and wearing the brace when I do anything with items weighing more than a few pounds. It's so wonderful to be able to sculpt again and make things.

Last week our power went out for several hours in the evening on a night I had planned to sculpt and work online. Rather than sit in the dark and do nothing, I decided to amuse myself by attempting to sculpt... in the dark!

I tried to record a little here and there with my smartphone, but it's not the best quality since there was not any light except my LED lantern, and only a small portion of what I did because I had limited battery. If it came out okay, I will process and upload it at some point.


Last we left off with medical updates, I was waiting to hear back on the bloodwork. I waited for over a month, calling and waiting to hear back from them, playing phone tag. Finally get told they *only* ran the ANA... after telling me it would be a more detailed test. Between the doctor and the lab order, it got screwed up and they only ran the one, with the results being exactly like they were every other time - weak negative, which everyone considers as "negative". When I expressed my displeasure about the messup, the nurse was short and rude with me, and told me she'd have to call me back after she checked. Which, she never did.

Their incompetence was infuriating, and after all the trouble I had with that hospital chain between the security guard giving me a hard time over Ember, ER meh, run-around with trying to get a referral and waiting months, blunders from their clinics and total disregard by one of their jaded specialists, I will be filing complaints and won't be using them for anything in the future unless I have absolutely no choice. I honestly expected more from them, as big a name as they carry.


I saw a new Rheumatologist on Monday who was amazingly better by far than the jerk I first saw. I've written a separate post to share info on how that went.

Wasabi had to go to the vet last week. He's had a lump on his belly that I thought was a nipple, but then it got a little larger and I kept an eye on it and he didn't seem bothered by it. Then it got bigger again where it could really be felt and was inflamed, so I scraped together the last $100 Mike and I had and took him to the vet. The lump is in fact one of his little nipples and it was inflamed and angry. So they gave him an injection kinda like they did for my wrist ( ouch poor boy! ) and gave me an expensive cream to put on it and waiting to see how he does. It hasn't changed much so far. I have a feeling I might have to take him back in. Which is going to cost more money. :/ I just hope it's nothing serious.

Otherwise things have been as okay as they can be. Dog training stuff is going well. I have a separate update for that as well. Have a ton of creative stuff to finish and take pictures of, and ideas to bring to life, so stay tuned!