I haven't posted any updates in months, because there really hasn't been much to say till now, so I thought I'd edit this picture AGAIN to give you all an update.

So... well I completed physical therapy last week. Big improvement, I can now jog all the way around our block and can move around fairly well. Not nearly as graceful as I was before, and still with very little stamina, but I can do it.

I have been asked so many times by doctors how my head feels, and have changed a bit each time I describe it. So I'll just say here that I still feel foggy, a bit stoned, and still lose balance when I do anything intense. But I have been able to concentrate better and can focus on something for more than an hour.

My leg still has the tremor I posted about earlier, still shaky when I try and balance on my toes or on unstable surfaces. I may not have mentioned this but there was also the problem of hyperreflexia, particularly in my right leg. At first, right after the accident, if my toes or other sensitive spots on my feet were touched and in a way not expected, the leg would instantly jerk back. Its fine when i'm walking on flat or even somewhat rough surfaces, because my foot know what to expect when walking on any given surface. Where the problem would come is if I'm walking and I step on something unexpected.. or more typically when I sit down and my feet brush against the legs of the table or chair.
When I first got out of the hospital, the leg-jerking reaction was intense, and very distressing. One time, when I was slipping on shoes (garden clogs, the kind that you just slip on) to go outside for a smoke, the bottom of my toes brushed the rim of the shoe and for a second, I blacked out and my body completely locked up. It felt like an electric shock all the way up my spine to my head, and with my body locked up, I fell over and hit my head (lightly) on a bookcase. This happened one other time: When getting out of the bathtub, stepping over the tub wall to the bath mat my right foot caught the edge, just lightly, and I blacked out, locked up and fell back into the tub. Now, I wasn't completely blacking out in the common sense of the term, rather, it felt like my eyes were closed for less than a second, and I could still hear. These events happened very quickly, and I regained sight and control within less than a second. But both times I was already falling, and both times when I "unlocked" I instinctively went limp. These two events occurred within weeks of each other, less than a month from getting out of the hospital. Since then I have taken steps to make sure my foot doesn't touch things in an odd way. I also make sure that when I do, I lean away from furniture so I don't hit anything if I do fall.

ANYWAYS... the point of that really long paragraph is to illustrate how it was when I first got home.
Now, that hyperreflexia reaction is greatly reduced. I feel safer slipping in to the clogs while standing. I have not had any blackout events at all since the first two I described, which I put mainly to me being very careful where I put my feet. But I have been deleiberately trying to get that reaction (sitting down on couch and pushing my toes against a coffee table in front. At first I was able to get it to happen, blackout and all. Now, I haven't been able to force the reaction and my feet react much less to brushing against things, although it is worse at night when I'm tired.

So after that longwinded medical stuff, I'll talk about my art.

I have been working in bits and pieces on some pictures, but not much more than an hour a day. And again, my process which was slow already has been slowed down even more due to the TBI. BUT I can say that I am mostly finished with Sealfield's commission, although I don't like how its turning out.
I am also working on a character reference for  draconicon, a story writer here on FA. I only recently started reading stories here, and almost exclusively under the "bondage" heading, and finally found some of Draconicon's writings. They got me through the first stages of recovery when waiting for appointments or just sitting at home not able to do much more than read or watch TV. His stories are consistently good although most of them are foot-fetish centric. But he is leages ahead of the VAST MAJORITY of writers here on FA, most of whom barely write on a grade school level. Or, of course, are non-native English writers, which makes good stories really hard to read.
As for the picture, it is coming along well and I like how its turning out but it could be another month before it is finished, partly because he IS a dracon and I have to draw and shade wings (ugh) but mostly because I am not putting much time into art at all.
I wanted to do a practice, "get back in the game" pic that wasn't too complicated, and after reading Drac's stories I felt he deserved a good ref pic of his main OC.

I probably won't post either of them in my gallery, since one is turning out kind of badly and the other is just for Drac. I also like having some art be only found in other's galleries, to be a sort of treasure hunt! Or whatever.

So... I could go on about my state of mind, but I'll save that for a journal post since I don't want to get people down. I mostly never read other's journals, and I doubt weather other people do, either. There's just so many that come up. But it will be there for anyone who REALLY wants to read it.

I will reply to any comments in an hour or so. Its dinner time now

Once again, thanks to everyone who commented and/or sent me a note. I went back and read through all the comments since the accident, and it brought genuine tears to my eyes. The good kind, the kind you get when you know people care about you.