Puppy Bribe (Patreon)

I’ve been in a weird state of sick these recent weeks where I just can’t catch a break and get a window to do proper art stuff. I can point to various factors that could cause it, but it still hasn’t make much sense.

Lots of ideas are thus in a big backlog in my brain. This was about the lowest-priority one, but it was on the surface when I finally got a random window when I could actually do something, and I was not wasting that time by trying to force a direction change.

I’m in a week where all three of my main healthcare treatments are lapsed, and that means I’m *extra* vulnerable. So… I’m trying to bribe my doctors to get them to remember I’m a human and not an inconvenience that is interfering with their lunch break.

My physical therapist is great, because she listens and acts on my words, even when it seems ridiculous to her. But this also means she’s the ONLY one keeping me alive right now. Surprise surprise - it turns out I’m actually right when I tell docs what I need. The downside: It’s a pain in the ass for the doc, and I’ve forced my PT to go over time the last few sessions, cuz (again) I’ve been REALLY bad the last few weeks. I don’t want her to hate me for this, so I wanted to make her something as a bribe. Her bio on her website says she owns a black lab, so I looked one up, did a 20-second sketch and then a watercolor on impulse, cuz that set was in front of me. It’s small, only took an hour, and watercolor isn’t my forte, but I hope it keeps me in good graces.