After Christmas Day

Its been a while since I wrote any thing on my blog. I have started using the new Icarus
board, its heated on one side and cold on the other. You work from side to side using the heat and brush's or Q tips to move the wax around. Its quite a new idea and I really
like the way the colors blend and meld together.
My picture of Holly and of Tyler are this method.
I hope any one reading this has a wonderful New year.

I've had a wonderful week. I went to my class and a woman came over to me and said you showed me how to do color pencil and gave me paper to start, she said that she now does pet portraits and loves color pencil. She just wanted me to know that I really had effected her art. That's so cool.

Also more good news, I had gone on Web Shots and found a picture of a Zebra I needed it just to practice. Well! wouldn't you know I love the picture and really
want to show it and with out the permission of the person who took the picture I cant use it. Soooo I went back and went thru all the pictures found it and the owner he had not posted to the site in two years but I send him an email asking permission to use his photo and lo and behold he wrote back thrilled that I would want to paint his picture.

I am sitting here feeling normal for the first time in so long that I can't remember. When you hurt all over your body and moving makes it worse.
I hope that the medicine keeps working.
Painting class today, so looking forward to it.

Today I woke up and 90% free of pain. I really did not think the medicine would work again but it did, even having one day pain free is a gift. The pain is like nothing I can explain

There is a program on the animal channel called Monsters inside me,
its fascinating on Wednesday night I just watched the first one and its
very informative. You might want to tivo it because it is a series.

If worms and things just gross you out skip it.

I went to the Dr's my appointment was 9:45 I finally saw her at 10:30 She had not gone over the labs, did not remember why I was there. Dr see so many people now days that they do no follow up they just have no time. I don't think I would want to be a Dr now.

The pain I have been having finally knocked me to my knees, fibro is the
worst thing in the world. The only medicine she could put me on was Cymbalta I have taken it and it stopped working, so I tried it last night and oh my God the pain just went away. Its been so bad I have been sleeping with my fist clenched and pain pills don't help well at least the ones she is willing to give me.

Why do Dr's not give you pain pills so you can funtion even if you become addicted to them at least you have some quality of life. Its not like I'm going to go out and live on the street and become a drug dealer. I am in such pain that the thought of getting up and walking to the kitchen is to much, eating is a chore, it makes my breathing ten time worse.

I know this is a rant, sorry but the good news is the pills are working.

Carl calls every day and he is having a wonderful time, says he saw seanery that took his breath away, the most beautiful of any he has ever saw on his bike.

So I got my ear drops and by noon today they made me so sick I had to come home from class, sick to my stomach and the shakes.

Really losy day.