Since I last left you guys, I found out that I had a tumor and as of April 1st it is no longer inside my head and just a couple of days ago I found it it was non-cancerous. They found a little bit of bone degradation when they were in there but they apparently did a little bone graft and otherwise the surgery was successful. My surgeon thinks they got all of it, but I am gonna have to have a ton of check ups over the next two years to make sure it doesn’t come back, and then once a year for the rest of my life. I guess I now forever have a pre-existing condition. Good times.
The night of my surgery I was in so much goddamn pain and they gave me some painkillers which instantly made me sick but I woke up the next morning nearly pain free but with my nose completely stopped up and a bunch of random soreness and cuts. God knows what happened to be when I was under. The day after the surgery I actually attended a hockey game because my surgery was 2.5 hours away from my apartment but only 25 minutes away from the Carolina Hurricanes arena and my Washington Caps were playing there. I had the tickets long before I ever knew about the tumor so the timing worked out. Then again we got killed and I was miserable the whole time so maybe it wasn’t such a good idea. At least Alex Ovechkin scored, but more on that later…
After I returned home I spent the next few days half dizzy and just randomly bleeding out my nose. I would get so tired but couldn’t sleep because I couldn’t breathe. It was a real blast, but at least I wasn’t in pain… Until after my follow up visit. One week after my surgery I drove five hours round trip to have three doctors take turns sucking things out of the inside of my head like I was about to be mummified. Even with the local anesthesia it was insanely painful and the last couple days I have been in more pain than I ever was from the surgery. So perhaps that explains why I haven’t updated the site in a while.
Here’s hoping the pain resides a bit because my girlfriend is in NYC for five days and I have a lot planned. This post right here is #1 on my agenda, and I have plenty of chores around the house on my list, but I also have two more posts coming very soon, with two more planned right behind them. The first is an article for B-Sides about the aforementioned Alexander Ovechkin who just broke Wayne Gretzky’s “unbreakable” goal scoring record. Writing about stuff like that is exactly why I wanted a separate blog section to my new site and I am more than halfway done with the article, I just wanted to get this up first.
I also have a new limited art piece that I have been teasing for way too long. I honestly don’t really have an excuse for not releasing it, since it’s been ready to go for months, I just wanted to finish the site first, and then I wanted to launch my new store and then my girlfriend’s knee surgery got in the way, and then my surgery, but I am out of excuse and my plan is to drop the new project, the new store and a new sticker design all at once. This project is super limited so if you are a long time supporter of my work and interested reach out and I will save you one.
Lastly, I have a couple Vintage DBB posts ready to go, but the new project is sort of a Vintage DBB related thing so I have been holding off on that too. Procrastination is a bitch.
Okay, this has gone on way too long, but just wanted to check in and give the handful of you who read this stuff an update on what’s been going on, and what’s next… See you soon.