My very dear friends and followers, how can I make amends having been so absent from these pages all these past months?
Fact is that this was a terrible summer for me, steaming hot and very humid and I can’t stand either conditions at all despite having an Air Conditioner and fans at home working 24/24 and 7/7.
But it is the heavy humidity this year that has impacted my health the most, immobilizing me completely and refraining me from doing what I usually love to do.
Besides of my eyes which are still slowly improving but still not at the point as to be able to recognize minute details, I have suffered the pains of hell in my lower back, due to past incidents I had while serving in the Swiss Armed Forces.
In fact, now that I am older, those impacts have increased my loss of resilience against them and when the pain surges I am simply incapacitated to move freely. Moreover, I also have an extended hernia in that region which causes me to limp in my right leg due to sciatica.
These are not excuses but the simple facts that have stopped me in my track all this time.
I could barely stand or even sit for lengthy periods of time and as you know, when modeling, you eventually have to stand when building a diorama or sit while assembling models and painting them.
I am medically supervised and despite that, failing an operation on my back, which a specialized surgeon in Zurich advised me not to undergo due to major side effects it might cause in my specific case, I do take a lot of remedies (mostly aspirin or ibuprofen) to reduce my pains, but these have the side effect to also make me drowsy and therefore are not ideal for a work of precision that requires an alert mind.
All this to explain the causes of my absence around here for which again, I have to apologize to you all since I so wanted to show you my further progress in my work.
My only hope now that we are slowly slipping into more moderate temperature and hopefully less humidity in the air is that my condition may slowly improve and allow me to restart where I left off in my work.
You can’t imagine my embarrassment and my sadness not being able to satisfy your expectations of me, but I simply have to face the fact that I am not 18 anymore, although my mind still thinks that I am, but my body denies it such right to think like that.
Be it as it may be, as soon as the weather conditions will improve somewhat, bringing some cooler days and my health returning to a kind of normalcy I will certainly want to continue with the work I had started.
I have already worked out plans for future projects - the only thing I could still do while in pain - hoping that time will be on my side.
And so, please forgive me for the said absence since it was not due to laziness or neglect on my part, but rather to the very miserable conditions I found myself to suddenly face.
I will get back to you as soon as I am returning to a more stable health condition.
All I ask of you is not to hold it against me.
I wish you all lots of health and happiness with what you are doing and hope to see you all very soon with further displays of my work.
Until then, be well my dear friends.
