Return to work Delayed (Patreon)

And warmer weather returned to Calgary! It’s bearable to be outside again.

The week has been quiet, writing, physio exercises and resting. Very little to comment on, except that as the post title says, I will not be returning to work when I expected/hoped for. 

The doctor, in my last checkup, stated that he was okay with me returning to work at the end of January. So that was what I was aiming for, and my therapist comments about how well I was progressing compared to her usual patient led me to think I was on track for that.

To be fair, I didn’t ask until Friday when she thought I might return to work, she said I had a few more weeks to go. I still can’t reach overhead, and it sounds like that’s one of the things she’s looking for as a marker of recovery. Because she gives a report to the Worker’s Compensation Board every 3 weeks, I am expecting she will keep me for all that time.

What it made me realize is that I haven’t been trying ‘hard’ to get better. I did the minimum of the exercises she gave me and figured that was enough based on her reaction. The thing is that I don’t want to be off work for more than 3 weeks. I enjoy all the writing I’m doing, but I do want to get back to work.

So I decided to double the number of exercises I’m doing. Every 4 hours or so, instead of in the morning and the evening. I am not pushing myself harder during them; I do not want to cause myself damage, just add some session to help ensure I will be back to work as soon as possible.

Writing wise, Taking the Line got chapters 24 to 32.  And I have started doing audio edits on it since I don’t know that there will be time to hand it over to my Beta-reader, Life has been keeping him busy.

That all the writing that happened, I didn’t have the energy to work on LRK yesterday, and after writing 6 words today I realized I need to do some research in the earlier chapters for a character’s name. I found it and immediately fell victim to the fact that I love the stories I write. I started reading and didn’t stop until my story meeting began. On the plus side, it allowed me to discover that the surprise visit from one of the character’s grandmother couldn’t happen, since I’d already written her as being present. Fortunately for me I had a backup plan that only required minor alterations to what has already taken place. So when I do write it next weekend, it will flow well.

Yesterday I watched Joker, and it’s interesting. I really don’t see what the big deal about it is. It’s a decent movie, but nothing spectacular, at least nothing to create the reactions I’ve heard of, from the people who love it or hate. It’s an interesting take one who the joker was before he became the joker, and having done a bit of research, it seems to be close to what DC has loosely established as the joker’s origin story. I’m not sure if it means this joker will ever show up in other DC movies, but as its own thing, it was decent.

And with that, I’ll see you on the next one.