So I mentioned health issues in my last art post, and at the risk of someone cross connecting who I am elsewhere, I'm still going to talk about 'em, because repeating it all is genuinely the best way I've found to deal.

Being super nearsighted and with some other genetic factors I won't go into, I'm at risk of retinal issues as I move into middle age.

I've known the emergency signs for ages (if you ever get pure light or pure dark curtains intruding on your sight, go to an ophthalmologist immediately, they must treat it as an emergency and it may save you from blindness to get surgery!)

New to me was getting a whirlpool in the middle of one eye that boils straight lines and makes an invisible zone for reading letters. This is known as a macular hole, and it is retinal damage of a less super critical detachment sort.

Good news! Treatable with surgery, honestly fairly good prognosis for getting readable vision back, though likely there will always be mild distortion and age related propensity for relapse.

Mixed news, the heavy exam for this caught retinal issues on the 'good' eye we'll be repairing at the same time. Less serious surgery, but probably still fucked vision for a while as it heals.

Bad news, I have to be 24/7 face down for the main surgery's recovery. For a week. Possibly two if recovery is slow. You have to keep an artificial gas bubble on the healing surgically repaired spot to apply pressure and that's the way the physics work.

If nothing changrs, in mid December I'm going under the knife. I'm going to be damn well blurry type blind and bored for a while. I SHOULD emerge with no real loss in the retinal cauterized eye, and even some repair in the macular hole one.

Just hard to not to be rattled by real anesthetic surgery and a nasty recovery procedure. Hopefully in a month all is well and I'm back to making smutty comic pages on the side for a long time yet.