Feb '22 Update
Apologies to those who may have gotten private emails of this two or three times... It's hard to know what you're doing when someone who thinks they're smarter than they really are goes changing things.
"So, what's been going on?" you may be wondering... Here is your answer.
Three weeks ago, I tested positive for COVID, strain unknown. No sooner do I think it's okay to get back into the swing of things, I was taken down hard by extreme gout in one knee this weekend.
I'm talking bad enough that my left knee felt like a knife was stuck in it whether I moved or sat still. The slightest movement made it worse, and the more I moved the worse it got. I spent most of that day on my back, wriggling along the carpet to a drawer 30 feet away that might contain ibuprofen.
I'm no stranger to injury or pain. But while gout can be treated and managed, I've never been in pain like I was that day, nor do I ever want to be again.
ER doctors removed 30ml of fluid from my knee, and I was told that testing indicated gout, and no pun intended, gout is a very fluid situation. As quick and strong as this pain came on and crippled me, there is a possibility the source of fluid in my knee may very well be forming more, and at this stage I can only do what I can do.
So, for the moment, it's anyone's guess as to if or when this project will resume... *sigh*