When this goes live on the site and you are reading this I will be completely passed out under general anesthesia as the doctors take a knife and slice my wrist open to pull out the daemons that have inhabited the space.
Yes, I will be getting surgery on my right wrist.
Since I found out I was having surgery on Tuesday I’ve been very nonchalant about it to everyone. I’ve passed it off as not a big deal, it’s minor surgery and I’ll recover quickly.
The truth? It scares the SHIT out of me.
Why?
I’m an artist, musician, writer, computer ‘guy’…all of this and more I do I use my right wrist heavily.
I’ve had these problems with my wrist for a long time. 11 years at last count. And for the last 11 years I have been avoiding surgery. I have this unhealthy fear that I will get the surgery to ‘fix’ my wrist and it will go horribly wrong. I won’t be able to draw, play my guitar, pick up my kids, play catch with my sons or generally just be me. It’s a serious fear of mine that I will have to cancel my comics and sell my guitars because I will have no use for them.
All of this is a huge part of my life. I love playing with my kids and I could adjust to that if my hand fell off. I love to make comics, and I suppose I could learn to draw left handed. But I couldn’t play guitar or drums..well drums I could. I’d just be like the drummer from Def Leapord.
This is me, signing off. Hoping that I can make my next post with both hands.
Babe, You will be fine. I had the same surgery and my wrist is loads better. Not perfect, but a lot better. I love you and will make sure that you can do all the things you love again… like giving me back massages now that it won't hurt you 🙂
yeah…back massages…with happy ending…