The past five years

Not going to lie this blog has been quiet for a while that's due to health issues, my dad had been going through some serious issues with his health, he was losing anywhere between four to six units of blood due to severe bleeding, nosebleeds mostly but some internal bleeds as well. One of the A&E doctors referred him to a specialist at the Bridgewater Suite which deals with bleeding disorders and he was diagnosed with HHT which is a rare bleeding disorder which affects the blood vessels. in short a patient with HHT doesn't produce healthy capillaries or links with organs from the arteries and instead forms these things called Arterial Vienous masses these things function just like regular blood vessels until they decide they don't and they can cause severe blood loss, clots and if they form in the brain strokes. When they looked into our family history they found that my brother, my uncle, my grandmother and myself all had bleeding issues as I was the only one apart from my dad who'd had bleeds who was still alive they rushed me in for testing and I saw the specialist in 2019 after having had to have six surguries to end bleeds, in 2020 I got confirmation I had HHT. My dad's health continuded to deteriorate and and they tried a number of experimental treatments to save his life sadly he died on Christmas day 2023 after catching Covid which led to complications, he died in hospital the autopsy showed he'd been bleeding behind the gut and that his heart had started to fail from all the blood transfusions he'd had to have in the last two months of that year including five in one week, the heart needs time to recover after a blood transfusion the damage caused by Covid meant it couldn't. Now I'm the only one with it in the family still alive thank God no one else has it

Just some Lockdown Projects. Due to being classed as at Extreme risk should I catch the ruddy virus I've basically spent the last couple of months a prisoner in my own home so to speak. There are other minis also finished but not yet based so I'll be adding more pics soon. I've also ordered some new miniatures as I've nearly caught up with my 10 year back log of projects.

Coronavirus words usually associated with the regular cold. The past couple of months have changed that though. My dad caught the virus, he and I have Heredetary Hemorraghic Telengesia a rare genetic disorder of the blood vessels, Usually it shows as nosebleeds, stroke and unexpected blood issues. The virus has made his worse, he is currently in hospital A surgeon is being brought in specifically to treat him he has lost so much blood. Long story short the Covid19 causes blood vessel complications which in someone who already has one is potentially fatal, for those who don't but develop these symptoms they could be looking at years of distress or worse.

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To quote Granny Weatherwax I ain't dead. I've been struggling there's been a lot of health issues, hospital visits, blood tests, DNA testing and more. My dad and I have a rare genetic disorder it has saw him losing so much blood that he'd dropped to just three units he needs weekly blood transfusions as well as iron drips. We've both had several surgeries as well still we're both here and hopefully that'll continue. What are my plans going forward? Try and get back on top of all my blogs, get the magazine back on a regular schedule and apply for funding to try and get a poetry event off the ground. I also learn't that the store that got me into gaming all those years ago is gone. The owner Joe sold it after his heart attack and the guy he sold it to kept it running. Last month I was in town and thought I'd call in and its now a hunting store I don't even know when that happened and I'm devastated it was one of the few places I could feel safe I suppose that's one of the downsides of living in a country and a city where Car bombs and fire bombs were the norm, were every weekend there'd be a scare and you'd hope it would turn out to be a hoax. These are all the projects that I've either just finished in the case of the Minotaurs (terrible sculpts sadly) or am still working on the Dragonmasters dragon. The Steam tank is for my wifes Empire army it has been built for years and fought in many battles but the painting was never finished beyond the basecoat and that was in 2009 Well I decided enough is enough.

Its been rough

My dad had cancer they managed to operate and remove it however they ran a DNA test and it turns out that he's a carrier of a defective gene which can cause certain types of cancer. Anyway we all had to get checked the papers arrived today. its a thing called Lynch Syndrome MSH6 Gene Carrier. This is one of the genes which prevents certain types of cancer the person who has this mutation is more likely to develop bowel, colon and gastric cancers. The patient is a carrier this means they pass it onto their children. Well that sucks. An update I've about 2 more weeks to wait for my test results to come through.

Warseer is down :(

Just found out that Warseer is down and that there's no news of if it will ever restart. I've been a member for years (Major Soma) and had posted a few hundred times especially in the Tread head thread. While I no longer have the pictures taken for my posts I will do my best to recreate them and post my stuff here. Now if real life would give me some free time that'd be great so far its been 3 weeks in hospital out then in again I'm getting tired of the smell of hospitals. The above pictures are My counts as Arabian Merchant and an Imperial Tactician for Mordheim one is by Reaper http://www.reapermini.com/ and the other is by Hasslefree http://hfminis.co.uk/Miniatures the last miniature is an OOP Games Workshop mini from the 80's this one says Grilka on her tab they re-released this one several times with different names. She has served quite well in Warhammer Quest as well as Heroquest.