Weekly Update - 93 (Patreon)

First off, thank you so, so much to Michael for your support! Let's all welcome them to Kuserra!

Comic this week:  Nuh (See the Ramble for more details)

Riley Character Page: In-progress!

Pages that still need touchup for Volume 1: 71/120

Drawing: Riley Character Page, Page 126, 127

Playing: 7 Days to Die

Ramble:

So yeah, I won't be posting a comic this week. As you can see, it's usually a lot further along by Monday than it is right now. I started working on another page, but then I decided that one should be page 127, so page 126 is still only a sketch, and it stayed that way all weekend.

The main reason I won't be posting this week is because I've been pretty distracted by my health. Too distracted to work, unfortunately. It's made me a little paranoid, I'll admit, to be told that my partial blindness could be heart-related. Suddenly every little tick and bump and ache and pinch and tingle scares the piss out of me and makes me worry that my heart is going to suddenly stop. And I'm in my later 30s so I'm still getting used to the fact there is going to be no shortage of all of those sensations as I continue to get older. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to get a little more information, finally, or at least get a better picture of my general health. When I rely on logic, (ergo: my husband) I'm not too worried about it being a serious heart-related issue, though. I'm still relatively young, I'm in good shape, I don't eat a lot of junk, I've still been working out several times a week, and I don't have any other symptoms like fatigue or exhaustion or weakness or chest pain or anything else that would suggest anything's seriously wrong. And the paranoid doctors and assistants I've spoken to so far have none of that context when they panic and tell me I should go to the ER. My blood pressure might be high, but that's always been typical for me, and furthermore, my sight has never been as bad as it was the first day this all started, which would indicate my sole symptom is lessening, or at the very least that it's not getting any worse. So while I definitely want to get my heart checked out and make sure I'm healthy, I'm generally of the belief that I'm probably totally fine, and something else caused my eye issue. I have to believe that, otherwise I'll drive myself crazy with worry. I can't blame doctors for first wanting to rule out the worst-case scenario. It's just super annoying that no one can seem to get me in to see me before my head fills up with all these acutely stressful thoughts.

So aside from all THAT WHOLE MESS occupying my thoughts and time for the latter half of the week, it's also getting pretty late into December, and thoughts are turning once again to travelling and holidays and to family. I know it is always unlikely to get much work done this month, regardless what else is going on, but I would like to be sure to post Riley's character page, and at least one more comic page before the end of this year.

Then the other reason I'm taking this week off is because I usually take a week off after ending a chapter, and we just ended Chapter 7. What I realize now is I end each chapter twice, though, first for Patrons, then for the public, and I haven't been very good lately about tracking whether I took the week off for one or the other.  I may have double-dipped a few times this year, come to think of it.

In any case, this has been the best year for the comic since I launched it in 2018, and that's despite moving on top of all the other hiccups and delays.  Our Discord channel is slowly growing, and support for the Patreon has been amazing! I want to run some stats and publish them for all of you to see, because what I have seen has been really cool.

I'm hoping next year will be even better!