Update

Not to turn this into the Wildebeest Health Update Blog, but I want to let you know a little of what's up, and how it affects Cavegirl Combat and other projects.

First of all, I haven't worked on Cavegirl Combat in a few weeks. I was working weeks ahead, and I still have significant lead time, but there's an increasing chance that there will be some delays in the spring.

I have a handful of other story ideas I want to explore, but I've done only the first few loose sketches. I still want desperately to find a technique that doesn't require me to spend so much time on each page.

I go into the hospital later this month for more tests. I still don't know everything that's going on. I have the hereditary health issue that I wrote about previously, for which the medication actually produces worse symptoms than the illness itself, but keeps the illness from killing or incapacitating me.

In addition, my GP has identified some issues that are probably the lingering effects of another health problem I had five or six years ago. That's what I'm getting tested for.

In the meantime, I've started taking some over-the-counter stuff that helps keep me functional. I have felt better the past two days than I've felt since Thanksgiving.

On top of everything else, I seem to have caught a plain old garden-variety cold, so I've got sore throat, runny nose and coughing to contend with.

Anyway, I'm trying to make myself sit down and finish some art, instead of sleeping and moping around the house all day, wishing I had two sexy, nubile young nurses engaged in a nasty, uniform-ripping catfight over which one of them gets to take care of me.

Oh, there's another story idea.