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Personal update & good news
6 years ago
Hi there dear Watchers!
I'll start off with some good news. Thanks to some pay-what-you-want commissions and a generous commissioner who prepaid I was able to secure the funds needed to buy my computer part. It arrives next week. it'll be a couple days of setting it up and trying to salvage all the data from my old computer but I'll soon be able to work on the computer again. My priority will be to finish my Copic commissions and the DND commissions.
A more personal update but still (semi) good news. I finally know what is actually wrong with my hand. The nerve doctor told me that I had a nerve pinch in my neck but I was not given a x-ray of my neck. My PCP referred me to a chiropractor who did take X-rays. It turns out I have arthritis in the neck. it looks like an old injury from about eight years ago that I sustained while being a passenger in a small car collision resulted in some calcification in one of the ligaments by my c7. A nerve test done by the chiropractor did reveal some areas where I had nerve problems. These exact locations or the places that I would beg my husband to massage me at. I also have a crooked neck. Your neck is supposed to curve outward but mine curves inward like a candy cane. I'm slowly working on correcting these issues and mitigating the damage.
Another personal update one that's less pleasant though is I might have developed tinnitus. It's been close to two months but the ringing in my skull has not stopped. I have mitigated the effects by pretty much having the TV on 24/7 - something to distract me so I don't hear that sound. It sounds like a tuning fork is going inside my brain constantly and it's not all that pleasant. Some days it's not as bad , and some days it's really bad that keeps me up at night.
All of these doctor's visits and treatments are piling up. My medical expenses have more than quadrupled. Thankfully all the treatments have enabled me to use my hand a lot more. I'm really hoping to try and be more active in art to alleviate some of the financial burdens.
The cherry on top of all this is that my grandfather in law is not doing well at all. He had been in and out of the hospital and even have to get medevac to the better hospital on a different island. Ultimately after a month of being on pins and needles trying to figure out what will happen and his deteriorating state he has now been put on hospice. my mother-in-law is not wealthy. She has two brothers that are a lot more financially well-off including one who's incredibly well off. It seems most of the burden of caretaking though has fallen on my mother-in-law. She cannot keep skipping work anymore to take care of her father's so she will be needing help to look after him. At least once a week I'll be spending a day looking after Grandpa to make sure that he is okay. He has incredibly low blood pressure and thanks to his early signs of dementia he doesn't remember that he's really sick and will stand up too quickly and overdue himself. He has been falling down a lot if he's not looked after so there is a definite need of having somebody to babysit him.
As per usual used voice to text functions to type out this journal to try and save my hand. Please pardon any wonky English and run-on sentences.
I'll start off with some good news. Thanks to some pay-what-you-want commissions and a generous commissioner who prepaid I was able to secure the funds needed to buy my computer part. It arrives next week. it'll be a couple days of setting it up and trying to salvage all the data from my old computer but I'll soon be able to work on the computer again. My priority will be to finish my Copic commissions and the DND commissions.
A more personal update but still (semi) good news. I finally know what is actually wrong with my hand. The nerve doctor told me that I had a nerve pinch in my neck but I was not given a x-ray of my neck. My PCP referred me to a chiropractor who did take X-rays. It turns out I have arthritis in the neck. it looks like an old injury from about eight years ago that I sustained while being a passenger in a small car collision resulted in some calcification in one of the ligaments by my c7. A nerve test done by the chiropractor did reveal some areas where I had nerve problems. These exact locations or the places that I would beg my husband to massage me at. I also have a crooked neck. Your neck is supposed to curve outward but mine curves inward like a candy cane. I'm slowly working on correcting these issues and mitigating the damage.
Another personal update one that's less pleasant though is I might have developed tinnitus. It's been close to two months but the ringing in my skull has not stopped. I have mitigated the effects by pretty much having the TV on 24/7 - something to distract me so I don't hear that sound. It sounds like a tuning fork is going inside my brain constantly and it's not all that pleasant. Some days it's not as bad , and some days it's really bad that keeps me up at night.
All of these doctor's visits and treatments are piling up. My medical expenses have more than quadrupled. Thankfully all the treatments have enabled me to use my hand a lot more. I'm really hoping to try and be more active in art to alleviate some of the financial burdens.
The cherry on top of all this is that my grandfather in law is not doing well at all. He had been in and out of the hospital and even have to get medevac to the better hospital on a different island. Ultimately after a month of being on pins and needles trying to figure out what will happen and his deteriorating state he has now been put on hospice. my mother-in-law is not wealthy. She has two brothers that are a lot more financially well-off including one who's incredibly well off. It seems most of the burden of caretaking though has fallen on my mother-in-law. She cannot keep skipping work anymore to take care of her father's so she will be needing help to look after him. At least once a week I'll be spending a day looking after Grandpa to make sure that he is okay. He has incredibly low blood pressure and thanks to his early signs of dementia he doesn't remember that he's really sick and will stand up too quickly and overdue himself. He has been falling down a lot if he's not looked after so there is a definite need of having somebody to babysit him.
As per usual used voice to text functions to type out this journal to try and save my hand. Please pardon any wonky English and run-on sentences.
Also hope the bills are manage able <3