davidcmatthews

Health update

Added 2018-01-15 18:22:08 +0000 UTC

Well, I'm happy to report that I'm feeling much better; I think I'm about 95% over this bug that I picked up.

I still think part of it is my annual allergies - I like to joke that I'm "allergic to winter" - but prolonged exposure to the intense cold of the past two weeks (because my job requires me to work outdoors, mostly after sunset) didn't help. My doctor even says he found some pneumonia in my left lung; he put me on some antibiotics to knock it out, and they seem to have worked.

So my energy (what little I usually have anyway) and my appetite are back. My voice hasn't quite returned, but if I had to do a video today, I could; I'd simply sound even more nasally than usual. (And I hope that my voice will have returned fully by the time for shooting the January video.)

Most importantly, though, my desire to draw has returned. That's been the biggest frustration of the past two weeks; I simply haven't felt any desire to draw. I've done one drawing since the New Year, before my sickness started laying me low. (And I don't want to show that drawing, because it's a "Tetsuko's Odyssey" concept sketch that spoils a peril one of the heroine faces.) I wish I could get the last two weeks back...