Hey everyone, let me start off by first saying I'm doing much better. My headache is pretty much gone even if it took longer to go away than projected. Should have expected that with my immune system. So yeah, hopefully, your fears are laid to rest if you had any. Anywho...moving on to the thank yous!
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Let's front-load this with the health information. So I had to go to the ER twice last week, once by ambulance because I had such a blinding headache I couldn't drive myself. As sick as I often am, I'm generally not the type to jump to 'I'm dying today' unless I feel absolutely at death's door, which I can say that thanks to last week, has now happened twice in my life. The pain was so intense it felt like my head was hatching open like one of those eggs from alien. I was thinking stroke, or spinal meningitis...mostly because I had my friend Ceebs death, as well as my late uncle's death via spinal meningitis long before I was born hovering in the front of my mind during the pulsing bursts of pain.
All that suffering, all that pain medicine that couldn't actually reach the pressurized pain in my brain...all because of some nitroglycerin ointment. Which I've actually had before...pre-POTS, with no severe side effects. But this time, apparently it decided to cause blinding, mind-deadening headaches. Between that, and the spinal tap required before they figured that out, it took me a solid week to recover to this point. Thankfully that seems to have been the cause, and all that was needed to get over it was a long rest...which if you know anything about me, is very hard to do. That said, my Mom has put me on house arrest more or less, in an effort to keep me from undercutting my recovery...hence the journal-title. She's rarely ever adamant about such things...but last week was pretty scary for all involved...and admittedly I always try to jump back into things prematurely...to mixed results. Probably best to listen to family and friends for once.
Naturally, everything got put on hold for the bulk of the week. Asks, commissions, everything. So we're gonna just pick up the pieces and push through. Don't look back, only forward.
So, asks this week? No. I'm going to be working on writing, which first requires a little review and penning down stuff I wrote in former stories not penned in my little series bible. I've said before about half of my writing is off the cuff, and the other half is planned. Needless to say, considering my average story length, little anecdotes, and inconsistencies are bound to slip through the cracks with time and lore expansion, so I want to do some due diligence before tucking into the next chapter, which is heavy on the dialogue between Dawn and her Mom, and contains some bits I have to cross-check with previous writings.
Also going to be doing commissions sporadically as I'm still paying down that stair lift I purchased for my mom. Between commissions and help from friends, I've already killed a third of the debt, so fingers crossed at this rate I can have that cleared by fall, and in between that stuff you'll have sketches and merch releases and the like to keep things chugging along.
I'm also aiming to start producing acrylic stuff around the summer. Keychains, standees, etc. Seems like a fun type of craft and it's a good way to expand my store and merch stuff. Once we get closer to that possibility, I'll start pitching ideas to you guys for some starting acrylics. I'm already thinking the Dawn head sticker is going to get the keychain treatment, but that's all I've considered at present.
And I think I'll leave it at that for now. A shorter than usual update for me, since I tend to ramble. As always, for those who see this an aren't Patreons, I've linked my Patreon and other pages below. And thanks again to my backers! Love you guys!
-Wasty
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