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11 years ago
so some of you may have noticed I haven't been updating six pack for a few weeks. It wasn't intended to go on this long, but I have done something major to my back making it extremely painful to sit at a computer desk. problem: my day job requires me to sit at a computer desk. So I go to work all day and sit then come home and am in a ton of pain.
At the same time the pain started, my chiropractor broke his wrist. He is off work until into March. I did go see another chiropractor in the meantime and that helped a LOT (previously I was having a lot of neck and upper back pain too, radiating down through my arms, and that has gone away), but that only helped out my back for about a day and a half, and then the pain came back. I have been contemplating going back in to see him again, but I just got the EOB from my health insurance and it looks like that is going to result in a nice hefty bill. So I can't afford to go see this guy again and will have to wait for my regular chiropractor, who gives me a break on charges because I have routine visits with him.
The idea was to work on the comics as much as I could and slowly get the pages done piece by piece, being late but not super far behind, but it's just not working that way. I can lay flat on the floor and use my phone or my laptop to type, but I can't really lay flat and draw (or use photoshop to ink and letter comics.) and basically it's looking like that is going to be the case until March, assuming my chiropractor can help me out quickly once he gets back.
I am still working slowly on pages and have actually considered just doing some shoddy laying-on-the-floor inking over the original sketches to upload that but I haven't tried it yet to see how it will work. basically, they will be uploaded when they can. I am really hoping to spend some frequently short periods of time working this weekend but I can't predict how I will feel or how long I can sit at a desk. we're also predicted to get snow this weekend and regardless of how awful my back feels, that might mean snow shoveling, which just means more pain (which is actually how this all started.)
tl;dr: my back is really messed up and I am in lots of pain, my paying day job takes precedence over the comic, I will do the best I can, but no idea when things will update regularly again.
really sucks that this happens right when we're at "the good part" of the comic.
At the same time the pain started, my chiropractor broke his wrist. He is off work until into March. I did go see another chiropractor in the meantime and that helped a LOT (previously I was having a lot of neck and upper back pain too, radiating down through my arms, and that has gone away), but that only helped out my back for about a day and a half, and then the pain came back. I have been contemplating going back in to see him again, but I just got the EOB from my health insurance and it looks like that is going to result in a nice hefty bill. So I can't afford to go see this guy again and will have to wait for my regular chiropractor, who gives me a break on charges because I have routine visits with him.
The idea was to work on the comics as much as I could and slowly get the pages done piece by piece, being late but not super far behind, but it's just not working that way. I can lay flat on the floor and use my phone or my laptop to type, but I can't really lay flat and draw (or use photoshop to ink and letter comics.) and basically it's looking like that is going to be the case until March, assuming my chiropractor can help me out quickly once he gets back.
I am still working slowly on pages and have actually considered just doing some shoddy laying-on-the-floor inking over the original sketches to upload that but I haven't tried it yet to see how it will work. basically, they will be uploaded when they can. I am really hoping to spend some frequently short periods of time working this weekend but I can't predict how I will feel or how long I can sit at a desk. we're also predicted to get snow this weekend and regardless of how awful my back feels, that might mean snow shoveling, which just means more pain (which is actually how this all started.)
tl;dr: my back is really messed up and I am in lots of pain, my paying day job takes precedence over the comic, I will do the best I can, but no idea when things will update regularly again.
really sucks that this happens right when we're at "the good part" of the comic.
On the rare occasions I've had pain, laying flat definitely helps, so keep doing that. And I would say don't do anything that'll make the pain worse, but...you live in Illinois and I live in New England, it's not like we can tell the snow to come back later.
Good luck getting through this. I haven't had to live with chronic pain but I can imagine what it's like, and it would really, really suck. So lots of warm fuzzies to you and hopefully get well soon.
I hope you're doing better.