Getting going again

Day 28

Woke up with searing backache - not unusual, usually goes after a hot bath - but today it was worse than ever, didn't lesson with the bath, and pain killers only dented it. Not to worry. Realised that if I was going to spend the day roaming round the house bent double, hands scraping along the floor like an Uran Utang, I might as well make the best of it.

Sitting down was relatively comfortable, so Steve did all my walking for me, and I painted the next two pictures for my book. Have just finished now, and have no more backache than I would have anyway, bent over a drawing board all day. RESULT!

Now my health is almost back to it's usual level of not-very-good, I'm really keen to get the book finished, as this will be the biggest part of creating My New Life. I need to re-do the pictures I have done today, as they were rough drafts to check out composition and colour balance, but this is good progress and I am feeling considerably chuffed. When I first started this book, it took me a whole week to do one picture as my health was so rubbish. Then it would have to be followed by several weeks rest before I could do the next. So, having done two in one day - well!

My newest resolution, therefore, is to finish all the pictures within the next month, including samples in silk. This is more exciting than daunting, so I must have turned a corner somewhere, because I feel back on track. Isn't life wonderful? I must remember that illness is just that - it is not a barrier or a handicap, but something I can work around on the good days, or even totally ignore like today.