Return of an injury.

Back in 2017, I was getting back into skateboarding and took a nasty fall which caused some gnarly whiplash. The pain from this fall in the following week would radiate from my neck into my left arm as if I had a pinched nerve somewhere. I wasn’t sure what I had done to myself but I knew my neck was in a bad way. I found relief after a few acupuncture sessions so I figured I was fine.

Fast forward to December 2022. I woke up with that all too familiar feeling of the pinched nerve in my neck, with the pain radiating down my arm. This pain is hard to describe. It starts in my neck and goes down through my shoulder and armpit, down the top of my forearm, and into my palm and thumb. It ranges from excruciating to tolerable, but if I stand and look down while using my hands, the pain gets more and more intense. It forces me to sit down and take lengthy breaks.

I have had a hard time navigating the medical system to get this sorted out and I’ve been out of work since mid December. I have had a lot of doctor appointments and scans have been taken but things seem to take forever to get approved by health insurance, leaving me just waiting in pain until I can get in.

This initial launch of this website/body of work is to raise some funds so I can pay a few bills until I am in working order.

Thank you for any support you can offer. I wish I could make more items but I’m limited in my ability to do much currently. More will become available in the coming months though! I am hopeful this will be a productive and creative year.