Crash update

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The wedding was really fantabulous! It was a hard trip, in many ways, but so very worth it! One wedding I would have cried for years if I'd had to miss, that's for sure. ironheadjane had the brilliant idea of renting me a wheelchair for the duration, which was actually a really huge help. Not only did it help with getting around, but it was really good to have a seat in which I could sit relatively comfortably at restaurants and such. I would have been writhing on the floor in pain if I'd had to sit in restaurant chairs for any length of time.

The bride was gorgeous (pictures to come, if permission is granted), and really embodied what I call the "Swedish Goth" look (it will all be clarified in pictures, trust me). The groom grinned a lot, and bore us females quite well. The ceremony went off without a hitch, except for the monsoon that came through right about the beginning of it- at an outdoor wedding in Seattle, in April, the happy couple expected nothing less, and gave every attendant a special party-favor umbrella. Every word of the ceremony was hand-picked by the bride and groom, with a little guidance from myself and pheret1. All in all, a wedding I hope to emulate when my time comes. Except maybe a little less water involved.

We met many, many of their Seattle-type friends, spent a little time as the Chicago Group with 2049live and his amiable spouse, "lj user="poohbr8">. We even got to reconnect a tad with Chicago-to-Seattle transplant, alacrity- weirdly out of context, that was!

Good times were had by all, some drank more than others, and we got through it all without the bride taking me up on my offer of a narcotic or two.

All in all, congratulations ironheadjane and disappearinjon!!!



So my housemates, subdermalglow and priestlygoth, along with good buddy hellfaerie spent all of last summer, and then some, making the first movie with a small independent group called Backburner Films. After getting it through post-production and sadly missing the deadline for the Sundance Film Festival, they decided it needed its own premiere. And last night it was!

It was a very exciting evening, with friends and family of all involved flying in from all over to attend. There were incredibly dressed folks- and there were at least three Kate Originals in the crowd that I knew of, maybe more (I need to talk her into getting a portfolio website set up so I can brag about her work better!). The movie, Say Hello To Clive For Me is a mobster tragi-comedy set in modern day Chicago. We were all incredibly pleased at how well it turned out, and Backburner is excited at getting its next production in motion.

Congratulations to subdermalglow, priestlygoth, and hellfaerie on the fruits of your talent and hard work!



I'm still down with the pain, but things feel- at the moment- like they're looking up a little. I seem to have a little bit more mobility- quite possibly due to the steroid shot I got yesterday- but there is still constant pain. The pain isn't shifting exactly, but it does seem to be manifesting itself more in places where it didn't hurt as much before. Interested in how this works, but since we're pretty sure there are nerves involved, I guess it makes sense. It also makes sense to how sensitive it is to the touch, in general. I'm glad I did the aforementioned things in the last week, but I also know that I'm pushing myself too hard, and need to back off again for a few days. I'm hoping to make it to church on Easter, and to a dinner I've got planned that evening, as well. In order to do this, I need to chill a little. Today, champion sister pheret1 came over to take me to get some prescriptions filled, and do some grocery shopping. That really put me out, and back into a fair amount of pain, so there's my barometer. I have no firm plans to return to work yet, but that is still kind of at an "as pain allows" thing.



I know that three and a half weeks doesn't exactly constitute "chronic pain", but I'm definitely feeling the effects of a mid-term illness. I've never been down this long, except quite possibly when I had mono in high school. But even then there were certain things I could do that I can't now. I haven't yet really begun to go out of my head, but I am starting to get bored, for certain, and worrying about how to go about having a life if this doesn't improve, or at least doesn't improve soon. I can't get to work- even if I could get myself on the el or into a car to drive (neither of which is a possibility any time soon), I can't imagine I'd be able to sit at my desk to work. I can't play my instruments. I can't sing, because I can't take in a deep enough breath without hurting. I can't even really get outside, because we live on the third floor of a four-flat, and stairs are my greatest nemesis. I'm doing a lot of sleeping, mostly because the pain pills (I'm on oxycodone) make me so sleepy. But I'm being weaned onto another pain medication that hopefully won't make me so drowsy, and then I'll have more awake time. And only if that makes me feel greeaaattt! I guess, though, one thing I'm learning is that I have a very full life- because I'm really missing it a whole lot right now. I'm not sure how this is going to play out. We'll have to see. I'll leave it up to all y'all to let me know if I actually seem to be losing my mind. You know- more than I always have.

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