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You guys are all so sweet and understands…many thanks. One thing Digit and Nam…lyme disease? Isn’t there a cure for that? What does that deal with and how do you get it? A friend of mine’s dog had it but it went away or was “cured” I guess. If it means joint pain, I feel for you! It makes art 10 times harder I’m sure. I hope my own lupus doesn’t become that way over time.
Thank you guys for all that, and the cake flowers, lol. It’s just like I’ve got one thing happening after another. I have had blood tests done before…why wasn’t it caught then? Maybe because it appears and goes away? The doctor said it could be something like that and that my immune system from all that has happened to me may have just sparked up with it from the clotting or something, because I know back in the ER they tested me for lupus but I came up neative at that time, but since then my body has been on blood thinners and having various other reactions so maybe the lupus just sorta popped up. I don’t know.
Does that mean I can’t donate blood now, I wonder? What about being an organ donor? I have to look into this now too because I’ve been an organ donor and finally have reached my weight limits in order to donate blood. I know that sounds silly but for the longest time I’ve wanted to do it and give back to the community but wasn’t within the weight range. Now I am and might not be able to…I gotta check.
All arts ending today…retty soon too, within 30 minutes to a couple hours. The sculpy Mystic ends tomorrow and I lowered the reserve to $375 if interested in bidding…that’s where the reserve is set at now.
I don’t know how she managed even $10 an hour. I’d imagine this is very expensive to do and I’d be shocked if it was her sole job and she could live off that. But you never know…
My last visit to the doctor my blood tests shows I tested positive for a minimal form of lupus. I am newly trying to research this condition and it just seems so…bizarre to me that it can come and go, get worse or better, over time and nobody can like…cure it, so to speak.
My doctor says dependant on certain tests and new CT scans I have to take next week (which I shudder to find out what THOSE costs are gonna be) I may be able to go off of blood thinners but remain on asparins my whole life due to the lupus, and this might effect any kind of surgery or pregnancy and such I’d have down the line because stuff needs to be monitored.
This whole mess is totally tearing apart a lot of things I want to do with my life and vowed not to do…like stay on drugs or pop pills all the time. I am young and I want to feel young…not 80 years old already and having to buy a pill box with every day of the week on it so I remember to take them! Yet here I am, 26 years old and having to consider the most outrageous (in my mind) things like tight leg wraps to prevent clotting in the legs, or having to stay on blood thinners and get weekly blood tests…or more ultrasounds and CT scans every year. It’s crazy and expensive and now all the dreams I had of taking vacations and going places with my hubby and like…flying out the window because of medical reasons.
Maybe I’m over-reacting, but I swear the more I think about it aresearch things, the more anxiety I have. And even though my husband is a mechanical engineer with a job that pays pretty darn well, we’re living off Ramen, Aldi food, and have been continuing to cut back on spending and not go out to eat as much or just do anything involving money. My poor husband can’t even pick up a hobby for himself and all the mdeical bills I took on from the hospital have caused us to probably not go on our first anniversary vacation.
How do people take vacations every year? I just don’t know. How do they raise kids when they live paycheck to paycheck…I just don’t know, man.
At least though, we have no debt.
Purpledoggy that’s like extortion. The power company cannot shut your ower off when you have smeone on essentially a life support system and they are aware of that fact. I’d definately look into legal reprocussions. They can’t surely legally do something like that!
And I hear you about having “too much money” to quality for certain things and yet you’re damn broke. That’s the whole medical system…if you’re on welfare great, all expenses paid…but if you earn any kind of income like a minimum bare bones wage job you don’t get squat! It seems to suggest to people in those situations, bad as it seems, to quit their jobs just to get on welfare to be able to pay their medical bills.
Lol, well I’ve gone to several conventions and this is the stuff that didn’t sell…although to be honest I haven’t sold much original stuff at conventions, or at least got a decent enough price…so I admit I pretty much quit drawing art for this reasonand have focued on kids books art. If that falls through too then I don’t know what I’ll do, but if I find more older art, or even newer art I have sitting around I’ll let you guys know but I’m pretty much empty right now of art and prints…oh wait…I do have one last print portfolio with over 50 prints in it of all my professional artwork. I sold one on ebay for $20 which was way too low and I think I gave the other to the convention for charity, so I got one left. It has every piece of art I ever made a print of in it (though only a few of the prints and from stuff up on ebay right now since this is what I consider my “best” art for the portfolio). And I don’t plan to make a portfolio like this again. There were only 3 made and I’m not making prints anymore except on request but it’s very rare. Have you seen my Deviant Art site? My paintings are up on there I got prints of in the portfolio as well as many others. If interested, PM me.
Dragon, yep, you still can use that one if you want, since I’ve put all my trades on hiatus for the time being.
And yep, anyone can enter. As soon as someone sends me one I’ll start up a place on my forum with photos of people’s entries.
Yes, the two I have from you…the koi rin on trade and the brindle I bought, don’t count, but you can make an all new one for the contest just fine, no worries! Everyone is allowed to enter if they want.
Originally that was so. I didnt think they’d ever be worth the time put in for painting them due to their initial cost (not that they are too expensive…I’m just just saying originally I didn’t think they’d sell over $50 or something; but when I had sold a couple for good prices it altered my perspectives, and then since the medical bills stuff arose…it seemed to be a valid source of income until recently. So, yeah I do admit that I bought more with the intention of painting them to sell in order to cut the cost of shipping. Now I regret having bought a lot of them. I suppose it’s ironic justice. I guess I shouldn’t be painting them with money in mind.
I’m looking for someone who paints Warhammer, Confrontation, etc. miniatures. I’d love to find other painters of these.
