Later this week I'll be leaving Alabama and moving back to St. Louis. Health-wise things aren't getting better for me here (I've been sick for over a year now, with no signs of improvement) and my medical team has fallen apart. Lyme isn't a disease native or even particularly present in the American south and I've exhausted the abilities of the doctor's in this region. I'm lined up to see, yet another, set of specialists in the midwest as yet another step on this oddly long journey towards managing an ever changing and broadening range of symptoms. I'm currently on a medication regiment that has given me some of my old lifestyle back and wanted to use that ability to get what work done I can and to keep people updated. I'm certainly not better but a new set of doctors and reuniting with a bunch of my hometown friends might be part of the road to recovery. I'm hoping.

In that spirit I'd like to mention my Anthrocon plans: I'd very much like to go. I missed FWA due to being fresh out of my second hospital stay of the year and *that* medication regimen made me akin to a zombie, hardly con-worthy. I also didn't need to be taking on more work as I've been quite behind (ten days between submissions, yikes!). So I've set myself two conditions for attending Anthrocon: 1) that my health allows it and 2) that I'm caught up on my work. If I'm not able to keep up with my work then I won't be in any condition to take on more, I would be doing myself and commissioners a disservice. It would be unhealthy and dishonest.

So there you have it: I'm going to try my hardest to go but it may not exactly be up to me. If things go well enough I'd like to update FS more than once a month too. (Though while I was down I drew the first seven pages of issue 4! Whoo!)

~Bone