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Story Commission Status & Life Updates - Part 1 of 2
3 years ago
Hamha:
Here’s what’s new in story commissions and all things dino-duckling!
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CURRENT STORY COMMISSIONS:
1:
nishi - Updating draft & finishing 'Part 6' of 7.
2:
littlebeararnold - Revising ‘Part 2’ & ‘Part 3’& starting ‘Part 3’.
3:
landonbay - Preparing to start 'Part 1'.
4: Anonymous - Building template for MLP: FiM fan story.
5:
silverkittie - Pending.
SURGICAL UPDATES:
The date of my final eye surgery has been set for Wednesday, October 19th. It is the first major eye surgery to be done where I live instead of in a hospital that is located over 100 miles away.
The surgery, which is to remove my left eye, will take between 1 to 2 hours. Post operative care will be focused on preserving the open space for a prosthetic / false eye. (This will be able to match the fake eye I currently have where my right eye used to be. It will take about a month, or two, before the prosthetic can be measured, handmade, and ready for24x7 use.).
Another first, for me, is how the prosthetic being created, which fits more like a contact lens and is put in and taken out quite similarly, is how I will have a left eye and right eye that match in appearance! (No more looking extra creepy with one, or both, of my eyes looking like a storm on the planet Jupiter.).
PAID CARETAKER STATUS:
Papa Lucca has, finally, been fully approved to be my at-home caretaker! This means that, once the evaluator determines how many hours per day his efforts can be paid for, we will have a sustainable income that is not 100% reliant on art and/or story commissions! (There is some additional paperwork, which serves as a ‘time card’, which still needs completed. However, everything looks to be in effect before my October 19th surgery with Lucca being paid by, hopefully, no later than the beginning of November.).
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Here’s what’s new in story commissions and all things dino-duckling!
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CURRENT STORY COMMISSIONS:
1:
nishi - Updating draft & finishing 'Part 6' of 7. 2:
littlebeararnold - Revising ‘Part 2’ & ‘Part 3’& starting ‘Part 3’.3:
landonbay - Preparing to start 'Part 1'.4: Anonymous - Building template for MLP: FiM fan story.
5:
silverkittie - Pending.SURGICAL UPDATES:
The date of my final eye surgery has been set for Wednesday, October 19th. It is the first major eye surgery to be done where I live instead of in a hospital that is located over 100 miles away.
The surgery, which is to remove my left eye, will take between 1 to 2 hours. Post operative care will be focused on preserving the open space for a prosthetic / false eye. (This will be able to match the fake eye I currently have where my right eye used to be. It will take about a month, or two, before the prosthetic can be measured, handmade, and ready for24x7 use.).
Another first, for me, is how the prosthetic being created, which fits more like a contact lens and is put in and taken out quite similarly, is how I will have a left eye and right eye that match in appearance! (No more looking extra creepy with one, or both, of my eyes looking like a storm on the planet Jupiter.).
PAID CARETAKER STATUS:
Papa Lucca has, finally, been fully approved to be my at-home caretaker! This means that, once the evaluator determines how many hours per day his efforts can be paid for, we will have a sustainable income that is not 100% reliant on art and/or story commissions! (There is some additional paperwork, which serves as a ‘time card’, which still needs completed. However, everything looks to be in effect before my October 19th surgery with Lucca being paid by, hopefully, no later than the beginning of November.).
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Glad to hear from ya!
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Thanks for your patience as a pal, Lanny. I really and truly appreciate it.
With how I've had some recent improvements with the management of my stress and depression, I hope to not put all my energy into a single goal. I am very capable of keeping up with pals and working on story commissions. I just need to not let my intrusive thoughts get the most of me. :)
That last part sounds really good Yosh. Wow, it seems that it could be an amazingly big help in the house economy. I hope that goes well.
The surgery sounds, all the good that it can sound I guess. A surgery to remove, well, any part of the body sounds quiet serious and scary for me, especially of an eye. Anyways, I hope it can be comfortable for you. Do you have at least something silly or simple to have a more comfortable post operative? Like bringing a plush or something? Because that could be so sweet and kind and I would love to know more about that.
I hope everything goes well with this Yosh. I'll be thinking and supporting you a lot during the surgery.
For every surgery I had since the start of 2016, I have brought my 'Snowdrop' plushie with me into the hospital with me. I shall make sure that she comes to be there when they take the eye that I have left. :)
I regret how, without ever trying to, upsetting the writer & voice actor of 'Snowdrop'. Something happened after BronyCon 2016 that made Meredith Simms life extremely stressful. This made my efforts to keep her in the know about our efforts to bring Audio Description] to the animation end up having her feel I was being a mean-spirited person.
Similarly, the maker of my Snowdrop plush had started to feel I was not being sincere about my joy in her having made me a friend who had seen me through multiple surgeries and BronyCon presentations. Before she blocked me on Twitter and Deviant Art, she told me how she had meant to say how she was not looking to be friends while saying my communications with her felt like I was forcing a friendship on her.
Despite what happened with these two people, I refused to let their misunderstandings of my intentions ruin something that helped me accept losing the rest of my eyesight while being what started the six year run of our Coping With Limitations Through Pony panel series at BronyCon.
Some things are just too important to ever let anything take them away from you. For me and the Brony community, this shall always be 'Snowdrop'. :)