Doctors......Again

 I feel like my body is falling to pieces.

I ache in so many different places, my lower back, my neck, and my knee. I know part of it is my weight, but I had back problems when I weighed 40 kilos less and was decades younger! 

I planned to go to an orthopedist this morning. I've been having pain in my lower back if I stand for more than half an hour. I've had this problem since I was in my twenties. It isn't continuous; I can go for a few years and have no problems at all, then it suddenly gets very bad. The pain isn't extreme, but with going to Tokyo this weekend, I thought it would be better to get some strong painkillers.

However, a few days ago, my allergies got very bad! My nose is dripping all the time, and then I have these intense sneezing episodes. I've sneezed so hard that I have pain around my ribs! So I decided to go to the ear, nose, and throat doctor. Not my favourite doctor to visit. I hate having things shoved up my nose or down my throat. But I can't get anything done when I'm dripping and sneezing, plus the over-the-counter medicine isn't really helping. 

Usually, going to the doctor involves long waits, but this morning was very quick, maybe just a 10-minute wait. I was very happy about that. The doctor had a look, then I had a couple of X-rays taken.

It turns out that what I thought was just allergies is a slight infection in my sinuses. I was prescribed stronger anti-histamine tablets and a course of antibiotics.

After I finished there, David, who was driving for me, suggested buying a new mattress for my bed. My old mattress had a big dip in the middle and springs coming through, not comfortable at all. We managed to buy one, which is nice and firm. I hope I can have a good night's sleep tonight.

Of course, the mattress came rolled up, in a box and of course, one of the cats got in the box straight away!

 

Sam is in the box

I've been designing more T-shirts. I thought I was doing very well with adding new designs. I think I have almost 30 now, but then I checked some of the top sellers, and they have over 500 different designs. I guess just keep adding designs.

Last night I was watching a video that showed that one very popular design is a cat in front, taking a selfie, behind the cat is a UFO. I decided to make my own version of that, a cat taking a selfie with a Japanese yokai, Japanese yokai are a diverse group of supernatural creatures, including spirits, demons, monsters and shapeshifters. Each region has its own stories about these supernatural creatures. I might write a post about this later.

Where we live, there are a lot of stories about a water creature called a Kappa. I wrote about them here, Jackie's Japan Journal: The building Is.....

These are the images that AI came up with

I like this, but the Kappa is a bit too scary.

So I tried to make it cuter, but then it is too cute.

I'll have to have another talk with AI. I want something in between these images!

I also had an idea for a Christmas theme one.

Cute

I'll save that for later!

By the way, I've noticed random links on some of the more recent posts. I haven't put them there, and I have no idea why that is happening or what to do about it! If I add a link, I will introduce it, not just paste something. Sorry about it, I will try to figure it out!