Injury update // mini blog post
Added 2022-05-05 20:23:18 +0000 UTCHi lovely people,
I’ve gotten a bunch of new additions to our Patreon community recently and I wanted to say welcome! I really appreciate your support and hope you find some cool stuff on my page. If you’ve been keeping up with my stories or TickTock videos, then you know that I’ve been suffering from it injury lately. Also please excuse the typos and weird sentences, I’m using speech to text and it can barely understand what I’m saying.
I’ve been suffering from cubital tunnel syndrome for the past few years, it’s like carpal tunnel but in your elbows. The first time it happened to me in 2019, I had to take a few months off of work and it took about half a year to fully recover. Is very difficult on me emotionally and physically. Since then I’ve learned how to manage early symptoms so it doesn’t get as bad, but I feel like I failed this time. Stress manifests in the body in different ways, and in my case, as I’ve been working very hard on my short film and a lot of my side projects, as well as dealing with a lot of stress in my personal life I feel like my body kind of caved.
For the past three weeks I’ve been take it easy because of discomfort in my arms but as of this week it’s gotten more serious. I’ve taken this week off work and I’m not sure how I’m going to get back to work soon. I might have to take longer to rest. Maybe this blogpost is just to vent or maybe I also feel guilty about not being able to produce content for you. Either way I just wanted to kind of tell somebody what I’ve been going through for the past little bit. It’s difficult to do nothing I’m so used to drawing every day. It’s also difficult do not feel like I’m letting people down. But I feel like I’m in a much better state of mind that I was a few days ago and i’m starting to be more positive and optimistic which I think will reflect in my healing process.
Thanks for listening
-Jackie
