Tenosynovitis ... part 2
It's amazing how fast something that was supposed to be gone after 10 days can last more than 3 months, huh?
Well ... first of all ... I'm very sorry for being so silent during the past few months. While I've been watching what you guys were doing here and there, the only thing I was able to do was posting a few signs of life on Twitter and reading (a lot, actually).
Some of you might have been worried, some might have been even mad ... So I guess it's not only high time I told you what I've been up to these past months, but also how I expect things to develop in the near future.
You probably do remember me writing about my tenosynovitis, my splint and the 10-day rest period. Well, I went to see the doctor after that and he thought it was fine and I got rid of my splint. And since I am so incredibly reasonable and would never ever risk to overwork myself (note the sarcasm) - especially right after a tenosynovitis - I wanted to be a good artist and answer that really huge pile of messages I had and (of course) start working again since a freelancer almost never can afford too much time off.
You can guess what happened ... Yes, everything came back after less than a day and, to make matters worse, it hurt even more than before (and, like last time, writing was/is especially bad). So, I tried to get an appointment at an orthopaedic specialist - and I succeeded ... several weeks later. Well, I wore my splint most of the time during that period and was all eager to write a new journal entry about the (hopefully good) news the specialist was supposed to give me. Well, the news weren't good at all. In fact it got so bad that I had to start taking anti-inflammatory medicine and pain killers. And then, he left me with 2 choices:
1. To keep wearing the splint all the time for the next 6 weeks, take the medication and get an additional therapy.
-or-
2.To cut down my work times and wear the splint whenever I wasn't drawing or painting, take the medication and get an additional therapy.
Either way would have kept me wearing the splint for at least another 6 weeks (the latter one even 8 weeks), though a really reliable estimation of the recovery time was not possible at that point. And since being a freelancer also means being in deep shit when you have a certain time you can't work, I took the second choice.
And so I started to spend my days painting almost exclusively for publishing companies, writing emails with one hand (which takes forever and is really exhausting) and resting my arm. During the time my arm needed to rest, there were only very little things I could do - like reading, reading or, for a change, reading.
I'm really fed up with this stupid tenosynovitis by now.
However, the good news is that my doctor said (last week) I was finally on a good way of getting better. So, it will take some more time to recover completely and I'll have to take things slowly after that, but at least it's finally getting better. It's kinda nice if your wrist doesn't hurt all the time anymore. ;)
Anyway, I know that I should have written a journal entry way sooner and I'm really very sorry about that. But please bear with me a little longer.
I'm currently doing my best at answering at least my personal messages and emails on a regular basis, though it might take a few days for me to respond (or longer when I have to look up several information for answering some questions).
Well, to all those who have read so far, have been worried about me and also kept on sending me get-well-wishes: Thank you so much.
An especially honourable mention goes to Eisfuchs (my caretaker since there are more things I can't do than things I can do with one hand), Tabalon (my paper work slave who helped me with parts of my work) and :iconisuna: (who kept encouraging me and sending me awesome pictures). :)
I will still be slow, but I'll at least try to upload pictures a bit more often (oh, there's tons of stuff I didn't upload yet), though I won't be able to answer your comments for another few weeks (but I always read and appreciate them <3).
Well, aside from that I wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. :)
Cheers!
Pan
Well ... first of all ... I'm very sorry for being so silent during the past few months. While I've been watching what you guys were doing here and there, the only thing I was able to do was posting a few signs of life on Twitter and reading (a lot, actually).
Some of you might have been worried, some might have been even mad ... So I guess it's not only high time I told you what I've been up to these past months, but also how I expect things to develop in the near future.
You probably do remember me writing about my tenosynovitis, my splint and the 10-day rest period. Well, I went to see the doctor after that and he thought it was fine and I got rid of my splint. And since I am so incredibly reasonable and would never ever risk to overwork myself (note the sarcasm) - especially right after a tenosynovitis - I wanted to be a good artist and answer that really huge pile of messages I had and (of course) start working again since a freelancer almost never can afford too much time off.
You can guess what happened ... Yes, everything came back after less than a day and, to make matters worse, it hurt even more than before (and, like last time, writing was/is especially bad). So, I tried to get an appointment at an orthopaedic specialist - and I succeeded ... several weeks later. Well, I wore my splint most of the time during that period and was all eager to write a new journal entry about the (hopefully good) news the specialist was supposed to give me. Well, the news weren't good at all. In fact it got so bad that I had to start taking anti-inflammatory medicine and pain killers. And then, he left me with 2 choices:
1. To keep wearing the splint all the time for the next 6 weeks, take the medication and get an additional therapy.
-or-
2.To cut down my work times and wear the splint whenever I wasn't drawing or painting, take the medication and get an additional therapy.
Either way would have kept me wearing the splint for at least another 6 weeks (the latter one even 8 weeks), though a really reliable estimation of the recovery time was not possible at that point. And since being a freelancer also means being in deep shit when you have a certain time you can't work, I took the second choice.
And so I started to spend my days painting almost exclusively for publishing companies, writing emails with one hand (which takes forever and is really exhausting) and resting my arm. During the time my arm needed to rest, there were only very little things I could do - like reading, reading or, for a change, reading.
I'm really fed up with this stupid tenosynovitis by now.
However, the good news is that my doctor said (last week) I was finally on a good way of getting better. So, it will take some more time to recover completely and I'll have to take things slowly after that, but at least it's finally getting better. It's kinda nice if your wrist doesn't hurt all the time anymore. ;)
Anyway, I know that I should have written a journal entry way sooner and I'm really very sorry about that. But please bear with me a little longer.
I'm currently doing my best at answering at least my personal messages and emails on a regular basis, though it might take a few days for me to respond (or longer when I have to look up several information for answering some questions).
Well, to all those who have read so far, have been worried about me and also kept on sending me get-well-wishes: Thank you so much.
An especially honourable mention goes to Eisfuchs (my caretaker since there are more things I can't do than things I can do with one hand), Tabalon (my paper work slave who helped me with parts of my work) and :iconisuna: (who kept encouraging me and sending me awesome pictures). :)
I will still be slow, but I'll at least try to upload pictures a bit more often (oh, there's tons of stuff I didn't upload yet), though I won't be able to answer your comments for another few weeks (but I always read and appreciate them <3).
Well, aside from that I wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. :)
Cheers!
Pan