Category: Uncategorized

Apologies if you haven’t watched “Stranger Things”.

This was me getting back to inking for the first time since my accident.

It’s much more risky than drawing in pencil, partly because I have to wait for sections to dry, and waiting is not my specialty; partly because it’s so much more permanent to commit a line to ink.

I’m also not so familiar with the pens I’ve got, ’cause I changed pens just before the crash.

I’ve got to take the leap, though, and work with the tools and skills I’ve got right now.

The planner where I keep all my project chits, daily planners, and calendar has been starting to come apart, so I re-covered it this morning.

I also made a new, much simpler daily planner. (The previous one had an overwhelming amount of stuff for me to check off each day, which was kind of counterproductive.)

I got the “All Clear” from my doctor to go back to work!

I didn’t even get in trouble for taking out my own staples (though the nurse did give me a weird sideways look).

I couldn’t resist taking a sneaky picture of today’s X-ray. You can’t see it, but where the bridge was, there are now holes running down my middle metatarsal and my radius. My arm-bones look like a flute!

There were never any guarantees that I was going to be able to work again. While I still have a lot of rehab work to do, I’m so, so grateful that this hoped-for result is the one I ended up with, and for all the people who took such adoring care of me.

It’d be easy to join the “2016 sucked!” bandwagon because of my accident, but I’m far too aware of all the blessings that would be overlooking.

Thank you.

It’s time to get back into action. But where to start? With a mind-map!