PsiFox
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Hi all and thanks for having me.
I’m 63 and returning to modelling after many years away. As soon as I could drive I was off at race circuits around the country , whenever I wasn’t working or chasing women. M a petrol head and always will be.
I was intending to return to modelling last year after having covid quite badly and damaging my lungs and heart, but I got shingles in my right eye ( and oh boy does it hurt) so spent From February to June sitting in the dark with not very good vision.
just as that receded I went for day surgery on my knee in July, I came home but 48 hours later I was blue lighted to A&E scheduled for emergency surgery followed by another op a week later. I spent 4 weeks in hospital with multiple Iv daily which tturned my arms brown as my veins all went blah, so had a line implanted to just above my heart and had Iv through that for another 3 weeks after I went home.
As it turns out they gave me a life threatening MRSA infection and sepsis which became septic arthritis and ate my knee joint.
So I returned home unable to walk with out crutches and climb the stairs. I slept one night in my sifesmrisermreclinermand the district nurse said I needed a bed in the living room.
that’s where I’ve lived since August last year angle,to get upstairs, I’m waiting for them to decide if they will operate to give me a new knee as the infection lives inside me and surgery has a 40% chance of going badly wrong, which could be he loss of the leg or my life. Just for fun it can also come back as other things like brain tumours, it can eat my heart valves as well.
Because of the pain I live on morphine and other pain meds, which doesn’t help concentration.
what's this got to do with modelling, well all the tools I’d bought to model were upstairs and I cant get fo them, not that I could have done much.
at the beginning of December the wife said you need something to do as you don’t go out except forthe hospital, would you like the dining room table to build and the table in the utility room to Spray. Big yes from me.
so that where I am, the pain limits me to a couple of hours a day so I’ve only completed one model in the first fourmonths and I’m on my second now.
As a result of not working since March 2020 I’m on disability allowance, so my purchases have to be planned carefully. I’m fortunate to have a watch collection so selling a watch lets me make purchases. I have a huge stash of 9 models, but plan to add a few more over the summer.
My interests are military aircraft from 1939 onwards and F1 kits in 1/12:scale, which I built as a teenager. I have the Lotus 78 laid away until I can pay for itand I’m after the meng 1/12 McLaren when it arrives. I hope Tamiya re release the Williams FW14B as no way I can pay the prices,people are asking for the kits.
My current build is the 1/32:GWH Curtiss Hawk 81-A2, nice kit if I do say so.
I look forward to paying for the year hopefully next month when I have,a spare £10 available. Yes life is that tight, but the mortgage is paid off, phew.
so my late life,story, I look forward to relearning lots and getting advice from you all.
Thanks for reading
Mark
I’m 63 and returning to modelling after many years away. As soon as I could drive I was off at race circuits around the country , whenever I wasn’t working or chasing women. M a petrol head and always will be.
I was intending to return to modelling last year after having covid quite badly and damaging my lungs and heart, but I got shingles in my right eye ( and oh boy does it hurt) so spent From February to June sitting in the dark with not very good vision.
just as that receded I went for day surgery on my knee in July, I came home but 48 hours later I was blue lighted to A&E scheduled for emergency surgery followed by another op a week later. I spent 4 weeks in hospital with multiple Iv daily which tturned my arms brown as my veins all went blah, so had a line implanted to just above my heart and had Iv through that for another 3 weeks after I went home.
As it turns out they gave me a life threatening MRSA infection and sepsis which became septic arthritis and ate my knee joint.
So I returned home unable to walk with out crutches and climb the stairs. I slept one night in my sifesmrisermreclinermand the district nurse said I needed a bed in the living room.
that’s where I’ve lived since August last year angle,to get upstairs, I’m waiting for them to decide if they will operate to give me a new knee as the infection lives inside me and surgery has a 40% chance of going badly wrong, which could be he loss of the leg or my life. Just for fun it can also come back as other things like brain tumours, it can eat my heart valves as well.
Because of the pain I live on morphine and other pain meds, which doesn’t help concentration.
what's this got to do with modelling, well all the tools I’d bought to model were upstairs and I cant get fo them, not that I could have done much.
at the beginning of December the wife said you need something to do as you don’t go out except forthe hospital, would you like the dining room table to build and the table in the utility room to Spray. Big yes from me.
so that where I am, the pain limits me to a couple of hours a day so I’ve only completed one model in the first fourmonths and I’m on my second now.
As a result of not working since March 2020 I’m on disability allowance, so my purchases have to be planned carefully. I’m fortunate to have a watch collection so selling a watch lets me make purchases. I have a huge stash of 9 models, but plan to add a few more over the summer.
My interests are military aircraft from 1939 onwards and F1 kits in 1/12:scale, which I built as a teenager. I have the Lotus 78 laid away until I can pay for itand I’m after the meng 1/12 McLaren when it arrives. I hope Tamiya re release the Williams FW14B as no way I can pay the prices,people are asking for the kits.
My current build is the 1/32:GWH Curtiss Hawk 81-A2, nice kit if I do say so.
I look forward to paying for the year hopefully next month when I have,a spare £10 available. Yes life is that tight, but the mortgage is paid off, phew.
so my late life,story, I look forward to relearning lots and getting advice from you all.
Thanks for reading
Mark
