Monster Toy

I know I don’t have to apologize for this, but sorry nonetheless about my non-presence online lately. It’s been a rather unpleasant time for me as the disease is starting to affect my arms and I have to be careful not to do too much sculpting or other work with my hands lest I lose the use of them for a few days. In addition my legs have weakened to the point where not only is walking unpleasant, but standing for even a few moments is quite difficult. It seems like every time my painkillers are moved up one notch, the pain is moved up two, and it’s a losing battle… To make matters worse they tried to add a secondary neuropathic painkiller to my medication and I had a nasty adverse reaction to it and spent the weekend drenched in sweat, disoriented, nauseous, and dizzy with a pounding headache, and even though I stopped taking it days ago I’m still shaking badly, having trouble sleeping, and am alternating between chills and heat spells — at least the tinnitus seems to have passed. I’m supposed to get tattooed later this week and I really hope I’m feeling better by then.

I did do a little bit more work on my toy, but not much.

6 Comments

  1. peteD3 wrote:

    sick!
    looks great esp the details in the eyeballs. are you going to do different colrs like last time?
    i wonder if you will smooth out the body or add texture?
    hair, scales, etc…

    keep it up and be well!

    Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 1:04 pm | Permalink
  2. Karika wrote:

    I often use Dragon Naturally Speaking as a voice recognition tool so that I do that have to type. Thoughts are with you.

    Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 3:22 pm | Permalink
  3. Steph wrote:

    That “toy” is fucking awesome!
    Your health, not so much. It in fact makes me sad :(

    I was thinking about you the other day when I was in the clinic and how a tattoo shop is likely more sterile then a Dr’s office. I’m thinking more and more that that’s the case.

    Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 4:31 pm | Permalink
  4. Tom wrote:

    Oooh, please say you will mold and cast a few of these creatures. My son would love it!

    Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 10:50 am | Permalink
  5. elly wrote:

    Maybe it’s time to test out some voice to text software to avoid too much typing? I love reading your updates (well, I don’t love reading that your health is getting worse, but you know what I mean), but if you have limited energy it seems it is better spent on sculpting and other pursuits… but maybe if you can get some good voice 2 text you can have all of the above. Hang in there. Been reading for a while and am so impressed by how much you do despite everything. You’re amazing.

    Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 6:32 pm | Permalink
  6. Sam Rowland wrote:

    I think this would be an awesome yard piece to scare the neighbors if it was human size but i imagine tht would be extremely difficult

    Friday, May 27, 2011 at 9:07 pm | Permalink
Wow Shannon, that's really annoying! What is it, 1997 on Geocities? Retroweb is NOT cool!

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