The Good
I started my new medication today. For those who did not see my last journal, I am on a testosterone receptor blocker, which I have to take three times a day. Apparently this medication works for older people who have prostate cancer, as tumors developed with that condition are similar to mine. We also got a rough timeline for upcoming appointments and procedures. I'm glad things are finally starting to move along.
The Bad
I'm scared. Plain and simple. This medication isn't meant to be used on people my age. So what side effects it may have on me are pretty much unknown. But I will have to do blood tests every 4 weeks for a while. Apparently the medicine can mess with my liver
The Ugly
My nose bled for the first time in my life yesterday. Now, I know this isn't some major event or even that uncommon, but it scared the hell out of me. Apparently my type of tumor will randomly bleed, or at least that is what my surgeon tells me. But it scared me shitless. I felt a drop land on my hand and when I realized what was going on, my eyes must have been as big as baseballs and I swore my tumor had busted open and that I was going to bleed to death. Yea, I know I overreacted like crazy, but that had never happened to me before, and with my situation, I jumped to the worst case scenario lol... My nose smells funny now...Dried blood and mucus...Has that nasty infected smell to it
The Art Scene
I'm so close to finishing my cover, and as biased as this will be, I must say that it fucking kicks ass. Yes, it is that good. I have never put in so much time or have been as proud of a piece as I have been with this one. This has to be the best piece I've done to date. Hopefully I can get it all scanned in for you guys to drool over here in the next few weeks
My dad thinks I should try selling it lol...Who knows, maybe I'll put it up for auction or make prints or something for Comic Con next year
In other news, we started a new project in Billy's class. We are doing Christmas pieces, which Billy wanted a darker feel to, so we are doing Nightmare Before Christmas pieces. But here's the best part, our art is going to be put on display. Billy worked out a deal where his classes get the front windows of a store during a holiday festival here. For the first time, I will have my art displayed somewhere (Aside from the internet, and this won't fall through like my art teacher's deal did)!!!!!!!!!!! Do you know how fucking awesome that is!!!!!!!!! Yea, if you can't tell by now, I am really looking forward to this experience. Although Billy is going to be separated the piece by class I believe, which sucks for me because my piece is going to be next to some extremely talents artist. But oh well, I'm still looking forward to it
BTW, since this is the art scene discussion. Let me tell you guys this; the indie-comic scene is in deep shit at the moment. Diamond (Practically the only distributor of comics these days) is about to screw over all the little guys with new policies. Billy is fighting them and is in a great position to do some with his connections and the fact that he is going to be a featured guest at the Con this year. I'll keep you guys updated if any of you support indie-scenes and/or comics and want to help.
I started my new medication today. For those who did not see my last journal, I am on a testosterone receptor blocker, which I have to take three times a day. Apparently this medication works for older people who have prostate cancer, as tumors developed with that condition are similar to mine. We also got a rough timeline for upcoming appointments and procedures. I'm glad things are finally starting to move along.
The Bad
I'm scared. Plain and simple. This medication isn't meant to be used on people my age. So what side effects it may have on me are pretty much unknown. But I will have to do blood tests every 4 weeks for a while. Apparently the medicine can mess with my liver
The Ugly
My nose bled for the first time in my life yesterday. Now, I know this isn't some major event or even that uncommon, but it scared the hell out of me. Apparently my type of tumor will randomly bleed, or at least that is what my surgeon tells me. But it scared me shitless. I felt a drop land on my hand and when I realized what was going on, my eyes must have been as big as baseballs and I swore my tumor had busted open and that I was going to bleed to death. Yea, I know I overreacted like crazy, but that had never happened to me before, and with my situation, I jumped to the worst case scenario lol...
My nose smells funny now...Dried blood and mucus...Has that nasty infected smell to it
The Art Scene
I'm so close to finishing my cover, and as biased as this will be, I must say that it fucking kicks ass. Yes, it is that good. I have never put in so much time or have been as proud of a piece as I have been with this one. This has to be the best piece I've done to date. Hopefully I can get it all scanned in for you guys to drool over here in the next few weeks
My dad thinks I should try selling it lol...Who knows, maybe I'll put it up for auction or make prints or something for Comic Con next year
In other news, we started a new project in Billy's class. We are doing Christmas pieces, which Billy wanted a darker feel to, so we are doing Nightmare Before Christmas pieces. But here's the best part, our art is going to be put on display. Billy worked out a deal where his classes get the front windows of a store during a holiday festival here. For the first time, I will have my art displayed somewhere (Aside from the internet, and this won't fall through like my art teacher's deal did)!!!!!!!!!!! Do you know how fucking awesome that is!!!!!!!!! Yea, if you can't tell by now, I am really looking forward to this experience. Although Billy is going to be separated the piece by class I believe, which sucks for me because my piece is going to be next to some extremely talents artist. But oh well, I'm still looking forward to it
BTW, since this is the art scene discussion. Let me tell you guys this; the indie-comic scene is in deep shit at the moment. Diamond (Practically the only distributor of comics these days) is about to screw over all the little guys with new policies. Billy is fighting them and is in a great position to do some with his connections and the fact that he is going to be a featured guest at the Con this year. I'll keep you guys updated if any of you support indie-scenes and/or comics and want to help.