Echoes Through Time - Pg 115 "and How to Swing It"

cru on Sept. 12, 2009

Uther opens the long-awaited can o' whoop-ass and brings the true form of the dreadlord Balnazzar out from the body of Dathrohan. Heartburn can feel like a raging holy fire inside you.

An incredibly huge thanks to everyone who has donated. Things are a bit better but still going rough and your support is fantastic. Hopefully soon life turns around and I can get back to a less hectic schedule and, dare I say, two updates each week.

The comic update is up a bit later than I wanted. I hurt my right wrist the other day and I've still got a little numbness in my palm so I kept this to a three-panel page. I hope I made up for the shortness of panels in special effects ^_^;

::UPDATE SEPTEMBER 26, 2009::

Okay folks, here's the skinny. Try to realize it's all fucked up and absurd but factual and I'm living it. I just got back around 1 AM from the emergency room where my mother was admitted yet again. However she wasn't in serious enough condition for them to keep her and they lacked the necessary equipment. That means she gets sent back home, unable to help herself in any way, and the burden is placed back on the family to take care of her.

When I say family I mean myself and one, maybe two other people with lives they put on hold to give her what help they can. Currently lacking in professional facilities with the equipment or available room to accept her we are left to care for a very large woman who cannot even sit or stand on her own. Human Services will do what they can as quickly as they can but she needs to accept the help before we're forced to go through the courts to take custody of her and control her power of attorney.

It's a situation that's beyond frustrating and a reoccurring nervous rash has sprang back up on my neck within hours this evening. On top of that I found she had a bottle of vodka she had been nursing heavily on the past few days which pissed me off immensely. Poor kidney health is a major reason she's in such bad shape and she's had a history of kidney and liver problems because of her alcoholism.

It's hard to force help on someone, especially someone you care about, who doesn't want to get better. I'm coming close to giving up on her if she won't make the effort to improve. It sounds cruel but this has been going on for years on a steady decline in her own well-being and I can't spend the rest of my life babying her and neither can the family. We have our own lives to live and our own problems to deal with without the extra burden.

To top it all off my great grandmother is going in for major surgery on October 6th and I'm worried at her age (78) she might not make it. If she does then the surgery will leave her immune system greatly weakened which is extremely dangerous for the elderly and young. Still without a job I feel like a rubber band that's being stretched continuously and all I can do is try not to snap.

I hope that you, the reader, will understand why the update is being postponed and I hope things take a turn for the better soon because no one should have to live like this.