Greg Kimsey
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Thanks for the well wishes and suggestions my friends! I was doing so well! I mean, I could do construction again. Then my knees started swelling and hurting so I started taking it easier. I had lost 15 pounds since I started working on the "new" store which is actually a 1910 farmhouse (hence, the quotations around the word new). I know I need to lose 35 more. I completely updated all of the extremely sketchy 1940's electrical. No old wire left!
The sale of my dad's house closes today so my 2 brothers were insistant that everything had to be cleaned out in two days even though we have had 3 years to do it. I helped lift what I felt was safe for me, but something obviously wasn't. Ever since Sunday I can no longer feel my legs. I can walk but I look like a toddler just learning, and I dare not walk when the room is dark. Every step sends an electric current from my lower back down whichever leg I am stepping with. It feels like a TENS unit set on pulsate. I have to hold on from one object I can reach to the next. I have definitely pinched an important nerve. Gail wants me to go to my surgeon. I don't want to. The last 3 surguries have not fixed anything; why should another be any different. The pain was so intense that I almost asked to go to the emergency room last night. Gail is actually a pretty good healer and gave me a cocktail of pills that worked well and knocked me out so I could sleep.
So, I am back to not knowing what to do. Frankly, it is a little frightening this time. I hope I just ''tweaked" something and all will go back to normal soon!
Now, a little model talk! I have added some extra wires to the engines. I based the engine with Mr Surfacer Black, the I gave it a coat of Gauzy to gloss it. I then sprayed Alclad II Dull Aliminum but didn't like it so I gave it a coat of Chrome which I liked better. I used Alclad Hot Blue Metal to paint one portion of the engine then faded AC2 Copper into that making a smooth transition. The more orange section is Tamiya lacquer LP44 Metallic Orange applied with a drybrush. The reddish section is Vallejo 70-814 Burnt Red. I am not sure what to do next on that area to make it more believable. I went over the hoses and lines with Molotow Chrome marker. I need to paint the rest of the pieces that go with the engine then figure out how to add the green ignition wires.
The sale of my dad's house closes today so my 2 brothers were insistant that everything had to be cleaned out in two days even though we have had 3 years to do it. I helped lift what I felt was safe for me, but something obviously wasn't. Ever since Sunday I can no longer feel my legs. I can walk but I look like a toddler just learning, and I dare not walk when the room is dark. Every step sends an electric current from my lower back down whichever leg I am stepping with. It feels like a TENS unit set on pulsate. I have to hold on from one object I can reach to the next. I have definitely pinched an important nerve. Gail wants me to go to my surgeon. I don't want to. The last 3 surguries have not fixed anything; why should another be any different. The pain was so intense that I almost asked to go to the emergency room last night. Gail is actually a pretty good healer and gave me a cocktail of pills that worked well and knocked me out so I could sleep.
So, I am back to not knowing what to do. Frankly, it is a little frightening this time. I hope I just ''tweaked" something and all will go back to normal soon!
Now, a little model talk! I have added some extra wires to the engines. I based the engine with Mr Surfacer Black, the I gave it a coat of Gauzy to gloss it. I then sprayed Alclad II Dull Aliminum but didn't like it so I gave it a coat of Chrome which I liked better. I used Alclad Hot Blue Metal to paint one portion of the engine then faded AC2 Copper into that making a smooth transition. The more orange section is Tamiya lacquer LP44 Metallic Orange applied with a drybrush. The reddish section is Vallejo 70-814 Burnt Red. I am not sure what to do next on that area to make it more believable. I went over the hoses and lines with Molotow Chrome marker. I need to paint the rest of the pieces that go with the engine then figure out how to add the green ignition wires.
