One more week…

Another filler post just to say I’m here, I’m still waiting for my function window, and I’m sorry.

This nightmare stretch of errors and delays finally had a chance to end, when I get my month-overdue Botox injections on Tuesday. There will still be a recovery period, and I’ll have to juggle returns to sketching with nearly a year of overdue tasks I put off during this mess, but there’s at least a CHANCE of escaping the spiral now.

This past week, after things going badly at physical therapy for a while, I had two productive visits in a row. You’ll never guess what happened! I regrew a personality! I did a bunch of chores! I did one of my overdue tasks, too! And that was in the day and a half of afterglow of the first visit, cuz my foundation is still a mess and things revert quickly. (You’ll note I’m forced to share recent cat pics instead of any new sketches, cuz all creative energy went to the overdue task.)

The second PT visit actually unlocked TOO much, that my body couldn’t handle the discrepancy between some muscles remaining in full-spasm, and some being nearly clear for the first time in almost a year. No short term bonus, but likely a long-term benefit, since Botox won’t have to work as hard on those areas now.

As for the cat pics: One of the reasons I was so burnt out is that my bro’s death set off a chain of events that strained the whole family. My capacity during these dark times is one action day every two weeks, and I was doing more than double that, since I had to rearrange parts of my house to take on relocated furniture. I replaced the pull-out bed and big kitty fort with the bookcases I never did fully arrange in my “office” downstairs. (It was going to be where I packed books for mailing, but my condition crashed due to strain of moving in and I never recovered!) So these pics are me studying the kitties adapting to the new space. And if the kitties keep looking cute on the shelves, I can keep putting off properly arranging the bookcases on THIS level as well!