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Day 3,062: Roller Coaster

The neck injury is a roller coaster.

I woke up feeling MUCH better this morning. The drugs were magic. I was turning a corner, and this thing was going to be in the rear view very soon.

But…then the day wore on. I could feel almost immediately after getting out of bed that the deepest pain point, the spot where it just doesn’t feel right or normal…that point was still there. That hadn’t changed. And the muscles slowly, steadily tightened and seized up over the course of the day, and it fee...

Day 3,061: Flare Up

Oof. Neck flared up BIG time today. Probably because I sat and worked for too long yesterday. Uuuggghhh. Balancing that has been really hard this past week.

Flare up was bad enough that I saw a doctor about it. “Saw” as in it was a telehealth visit on the phone. He quickly diagnosed it as a muscular injury, and that has irritated a nerve on my left side. And that’s…exactly what it feels like. I could even feel it radiating down that side of my back.

So! I’m on some prescription drugs now. ...

Day 3,060: I need a

Neck is…slowly, ever so slllooowwwllyyy getting better.

The nerve pinch itself is doing much better. So the slicing, stabbing pain isn’t there. What’s set in, now, is tight-ass neck muscles. Have to slowly coax those to calm the fuck down, and then we’re golden. But, there it progress made every day.

I was able to work today. Like, a full, busy day. That was nice. Listened to good music. Had a bit of a normal routine. We talked with our financial advisor; we’re doing fine. Treading water a...

Day 3,059: Discolored

Neck is…better. Still a long looonnggg way from all the way back. Blerg.

I worked today. Had to. Got in some rest time, too. That’s what I’m going to have to do for like the next week, I think. Uuuugggghhhh.

Josh, if you’re reading this, we have to push Film School recording times to next week. It’s too painful for me to sit for that long.

I can’t work on the “project” either. I can’t do anything. But…

It is healing.

Slowly.

Night night.

Day 3,058: Still Broke

Neck is still broke…but healing. Thank lord.

It was really bad last night. Suuuuuper painful. I could hardly move. Took me FOREVER to fall asleep laying on my back…

But I think it worked. As did basically lying in bed all day today. It feels better tonight. Bro gave me some motion exercises to help loosen it up, and I gave much more range of motion now than I did last night, or even this morning, which is a relief. The trend the past few days has been the neck getting WORSE over the course...

Day 3,057: Effed Up Neck

So…I’ve hurt my neck.

Never tweaked it this bad before. It’s fuuuucked up. Hurts to even lean forward. I was able to sit and work today, watch some TV (Dubs won), but that is about it. It’s worse than it was yesterday, which is when it really started.

Ugh. I was hoping it would just go away, but something it majorly tweaked in there. It’s not muscular, it’s the joint itself.

Anyway…cutting this short Bc it’s sleepy time and rest the neck time. Night night.

Days 3,056: Low Spoons

Comparisonitis. It’s a motherfucker.

I am not immune. I try my best to manage it, but it’s always there.

We were listening to the podcast “Dead Eyes” last night in our drive to and from the Bu, and the host mentioned a quote…can’t remember who from…but about how as soon as anyone lands in LA, in the back their mind starts the question “how am I doing?”

That shit hit pretty hard. It’s constant here. We are constantly comparing ourselves to other people in LA. It’s a pillar of the fucking...

Day 3,055: Go Little Bro Go Little Bro Go!

We Bare Bears. Such a good show.

Good day today. Didn’t get much done on the project, which I was hoping for, but I did get another item up on the old eBay. I did make, for the first time in my life, tomato soup from scratch, and Liz and I did go out on a date together.

We had the aforementioned tomato soup and some grilled cheese out in Malibu and watched the sunset. We made it JUST in time. Parking was a little intense, but we found it, and snagged a nice spot to watch the sun go down, t...

Day 3,054: We Ready

Long week, y’all. So much working. It feels like AGES ago that Scott and Addie were here and we watched the newest Ghostbusters movie…and that was only Monday.

Pilot season has been legit so far this year. Lots and lots of auditions. Lots and lots of sides, and taping, and zoom calls, and running lines. But, it’s good. It feels like maybe, just maybe, things are getting back to normal out there. Fingers crossed that Liz gets one of these projects. She’s perfect for so many of them, and she’s ...

Day 3,053: Listen

Warriors are back.

For the last two games, anyway 😛 We played so poorly for a while, but we miiiiight be turning a corner. We play the Bucks on Saturday. We will lose to them without Draymond and GP2 and Andre…but the rest of our near schedule is favorable. We can get back into a rhythm. Steph is playing his normal minutes again—longer stints on the court—and finding his rhythm, too. We beat a good Nuggets team. Outlasted one of the favorites for league MVP. Very satisfying win.

It was a l...