Bad days versus Good days. Which is which? I had already renamed Bad days as Wipeout days but I am trying to take it one further and renaming them again as Brain Healing Days. I know I am good at handling really tough events (yay to C-PTSD which prepares you for the shit in life!) but I’m not as good at allowing myself into relaxing into enjoying myself, enjoying the small pleasures in life. So I’m reframing my formerly known as “Wipeout days” as Brain Healing Days, as the mo

The early weeks post-op craniotomy I just wanted to put a post up to help me get back into the groove. It is all a bit uphill, using my new software which I can hardly remember how to use. I’ve moved to Affinity from Adobe and struggling to work a new system. It has been good to reopen my sketchbooks. I played around with some pages to put together an image for the early weeks post op after the craniotomy. It is weird how there are lots of images that fit, made in the year be

View from the ward window. (Helicopter landing pad with a windsock and a nice Zen garden) 2025 turned out to be one hell of a year. But here we are in 2026, I’ve had 3 operations and I’m still alive. Brief summary of a totally weird “Unfortunate Series of Events” Operation 1 Three operations were cancelled last minute for various reasons but eventually In October I was admitted (to male head injuries ward as no other beds) and operated on. The operation was 7 hours with 4 sur