Supanova guests

[catalyst2]

Just looked on the Supanova Perth guest list - James Marsters, Morena Baccarin and Sean Maher!

WOOHOO!

If I can get signatures from Morena Baccarin and Sean Maher, that means that my Serenity Those Left Behind HC will only need 5 more signatures for a full set! I can dream on, I know!

I wonder if I should get James Marsters to sign my Spike: After the Fall HC?

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[electrcspacegrl.livejournal.com]

I'm going to see James Marsters, Nick Brendon and Clare Kramer at Emerald City Comicon next month! They've got a great lineup this year.

[catalyst2.livejournal.com]

That does sound like a good line-up - I'm not sure that either Nick Brendon or Clare Kramer have ever come out to Australia. James Marsters, on the other hand, seems to be out here about every second year.

Do you do the whole signature/photo thing? I only go for the signature personally.

[electrcspacegrl.livejournal.com]

I have not done the sig/photo thing. Not really my thing, but I did think that if I have to bring my cane up there (I'm now officially a cripple), I might try to cover it with stickers and get people to sign it. That would be unique and pretty cool.

I go mostly for Q&A's and partying with other fans. I'm getting a hotel room this time so it's going to be really fun. A friend of mine got a room in the same hotel, and we're gonna have a room party. :)

[catalyst2.livejournal.com]

You have a cane now? Did I miss something?

Most of the stars who come to SupaNova either don't do a Q&A or it's another charge on top of the entry fee. After the entry ticket and the chrage for the sig, I tend to run out of money!

I'd love to go to something like this with other fans but sadly I don't know any in RL!

[electrcspacegrl.livejournal.com]

You have a cane now? Did I miss something?

Well, I haven't talked about it on LJ. I should probably post an update about it. Long story kind of short: I've had knee problems since I was 15 years old. Because I didn't take care of it sooner, I now have degenerative arthritis in my knees. In the last year I had two tendon ruptures (luckily it was a tendon you don't need, but good god did it hurt) six months apart, and the last rupture doesn't seem to have healed properly. That knee is stiff, creaky and in a lot of pain.

It turns out the tendon rupture was due to my degenerative arthritis. I now have to do two types of exercises every day: stretching and strengthening. It takes about 15 min out of my morning. If I skip a day I really feel it.

I had to purchase a cane when I was trying to recover from my last tendon rupture, and at times I still need it, especially if I have to do a lot of walking. My volunteer job requires I do a lot of standing when shelving books. I often need my cane on my volunteer days.

I am trying to get Orthovisc injections that apparently work wonders for about a year. My insurance denied me because they want me to try steroid injections and medicine first. I'm trying to get something like that started before Emerald City Comicon next month or I'm really going to be suffering.

I also need the specialist to look at my left leg, since it hasn't been examined since the rupture. Something's really wrong with it.

I am officially an old lady with creaky granny knees. How did it ever come to this?

[catalyst2.livejournal.com]

Youch, those tendon ruptures sound really painful.

How did it ever come to this?
Stuff like this sneaks up on you sometimes. I have various finger and thumb injuries (mainly from martial arts but also from a bad pushbike accident about twenty years ago) that have been a very minor irritation for years but in the last three months or so have flared into full osteoarthritis in most of my finger/thumb joints. Fortunately, I doesn't interfere with my work but it is still bloody annoying and failry painful! So I get to be an old man with gnarled and (soon-to-be) deformed fingers and thumbs! :-)

[electrcspacegrl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess it's osteoarthritis that I have too. It's so painful. I have to take tylenol every day, and I hate taking medicine like that on a regular basis. I had tylenol poisoning after a suicide attempt when I was a teenager. I could have died from liver damage, and I used to have an aversion to taking tylenol after that. I got over that though when I had my wisdom teeth pulled a year and a half ago.