From ashes · 3:09am Dec 28th, 2014
Hey everyone!
I hope you all enjoyed your holidays! I wanted to put forth an update to all of my well-wishers from my previous blog post. For those just joining us, here's a break down.
On December 5th, I fell three stories. The impact of the fall shattered two vertebrate in my spine, and broke/dislocated several bones in my right leg.
Here's an update. Firstly, I didn't die. A lot of the doctors I spoke to said it was miraculous that I didn't, as the fall and nature of my injuries could very well have killed me. Secondly, I am not paralyzed! Again, the nature of the injuries, especially to the spinal cord, could have left me unable to walk. Thankfully, it did not!
In the past month, I have been in several hospitals, and am in what I hope is the last one before I am sent home to rest and rehabilitate. I had surgeries to fuse the unbroken sections of my spine together with a series of metal rods, and to realign my ankle and also prompt the bones to heal with another series of rods. At this point, I am conducting physical and occupational therapy on a daily basis to rebuild the muscles that have atrophied during my extended inactivity. Slowly, but surely, my nerves are starting to repair themselves - my entire bottom half is numbed. Additionally, my pain levels have decreased dramatically. Though there is a constant ache, it is not nearly as severe as it was, and I can sleep for more than two hours before needing another IV injection of controlled-substance levels of narcotic painkillers. Thank goodness!
I have another estimated week of rehab, and I now have my laptop and a WiFi Connection! My goal is to use this time in the hospital to write some. Although I am notoriously slow (I do apologize), I plan to have an update to the story "The Play's The Thing" up in short order. For those who haven't read it, it's a comparatively light-hearted story about Sweetie Belle dealing with an awkward secret crush on her best friend Scootaloo. However, she finds herself coincidentally directing a play about a romantic relationship between a unicorn and a pegasus... imagine that!
After that is done, I will try to churn out an update to Blooming Backwards, an experimental story I started many moons ago. And then, I will get back to Scootaloo & The Cabinet of Seers. As one of my favorite folks on fimfiction, as well as my awesome pre-reader, RaylanKrios will attest to, the story itself is mostly in order and just needs to actually be written! Again, I apologize for my slowness - I can't promise it will be worth it (my ego isn't that big, I hope) but I hope that you will find it worthwhile!
Speaking of RaylanKrios, he just composed a featured box worthy tale entitled "Three Gems And A Scooter." It's a Scootadopt story of different breed, with the "rare" choice of Rarity as the parent! How often do you see those? It's a great little tale, and I feel rather strongly connected to it; my sister drew the cover art, I helped with some pre-reading/feedback, and I might have even suggested the title for it! As often as RaylanKrios generously advertises my stuff for me, it's high time I returned the favor. Give it a spin, folks!
Lastly, I have an interesting question to ask of you followers. While writing "Scootaloo & The Cabinet of Seers", I had to work through several sections wiping away tears during some of the emotionally trying pieces - I'm not too proud to admit it! I think I am overly emotional, or at the very least overly attached to these fictional characters to even GET that emotional about them. But I thought I'd ask anyways -
Were there any instances during the story where you started to tear up or otherwise emotionally strongly ("feels") about the events? I'd really like to know, because as an author, I don't think there's anything more rewarding than eliciting strong emotion from the readers. If so, do they come across as "cheap" or "unearned"?
So that, concludes my blog post. If I could write a narrative as fast I run my theoretical mouth, you guys would have a finished story from me at this point...
I do hope you make a speedy recovery.
Might have suggested the title?
Lets be honest, you gave me like 6 titles to choose from and I picked that one.
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True... I didn't mean to overstate my involvement in that. Sorry!
You misunderstand me, I'm suggesting you understated your involvement in the title. It's your title I'm just using it.
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Ohhhh...
My bad!
Here's hoping you make a full recovery!
Not dying is always preferable to the alternative.
I'm glad you're still here.
Man, that sucks. I'm glad your going to be ok. I wish you a speedy country
Ouch!
I wish you a speedy recovery and that you can sleep well soon. Some years ago I had to take drugs which had a stimulant side effect.
They kept me awake for nearly 2 Weeks unable to sleep properly for more than 2 hours a day. After some days I felt like a zombie ...
And because I had spent a full month in a hospital bed I lost muscles too.
Man ... I really feel with you.
*Hugs*
Thank goodness you're not paralyzed and are recovering!
I'm so glad you'll get better and be okay!