I have been pretty sick since last time I updated. I started physical
therapy again the week before it hit really bad. It's a flairup caused
from over exerting myself, and amplified by the weird changes in the
weather here. Haven't been sleeping well to begin with, so getting up
to tend to puppy stuff wasn't as much an issue. It got bad enough that I
almost had a full syncope attack during my physical therapy, and
probably fully would have if Ember hadn't alerted me in time so I could
stop what I was doing and get to a safe position and warn the staff just
in case.
To make matters worse I ended up falling during some
hardcore pre-syncope roller coaster rides at home. Bruised myself up
pretty good and was sore as hell. Only to have to go right to the
radiology appointments and be asked to contort myself in weird ways and
get poked and prodded so they could do the scans, which further pushed
my pain threshold.
Poor Ember has been hyper vigilant like she
always gets when I get a flairup this bad. Unfortunately she has gotten
to a point where it is increasingly difficult for her to do anything for
me anymore. There have been several times where she lost her footing
while counter balancing me and I almost fell down or into something. I
haven't been using her for the balance and bracing assist as much
because I don't want to hurt her or myself, and that has only made the
flairup that much worse because of the added strain on my body.
I
am getting to where I can use my hands again, now that the random
painful skin splitting,bleeding, and other pleasantries that come with
these flairs is calming some. One tiny scratch I got on my pinky morphed
into a huge gash and kept refusing to stay closed and heal even with
bandaids, ointments, and finally going as far as using liquid bandage to
hold it together. It was very painful. A similar split formed on the
corner of my thumb and has been almost as challenging to convince to
stop splitting open and start healing.
Even still, I have managed
to get 15 ceramic bowl dishes formed and drying as greenware, to be
bisqued, glazed and fired to finish, a commission intended for office
holiday gifts. I also have full intentions to work on that dog portrait
painting, even if I have to fully bandage my hands to do so. I will
stream while working on it, aiming for this Friday 16th around 8pm CST
for anyone interested.
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