The Creativity Gradient

By Shamus Posted Monday Apr 25, 2022

Filed under: Personal 59 comments

I’ve spent a lot of the last two weeks thinking about creativity and motivation. As my health has deteriorated, my behavior has shifted from high-creativity tasks to low-creativity ones.

Below are some example behaviors. At the top of the list are the high-creativity tasks that require lots of mental power, and at the bottom are uncreative pursuits for when I’m operating in Zombie Mode.

  1. Programming.
  2. Writing about programming.
  3. Writing about something else complex: Industry trends, project management, worldbuilding, studio management, and so on.
  4. Writing about personal stuff that doesn’t require any research.
  5. Writing rants about stuff that grinds my gears.
  6. Reading articles about the gaming industry and technology.
  7. Playing a new or challenging game.
  8. Playing a familiar game.
  9. Watching a new movie that requires me to pay attention to follow the action.
  10. Playing Minecraft or one of my other “comfort food” games.
  11. Watching a dumb movie that doesn’t ask much of you, or offer much in return.
  12. Watching a familiar movie or show that I already enjoy.
  13. Watching short-formLess than 15 minutes? YouTube video essays.
  14. Watching 5-minute skits, memes, gags, highlight reels, and other content that doesn’t require any thought or context.
  15. Scrolling Reddit.
  16. Scrolling Reddit and skipping everything that takes more than 5 seconds to digest.

I’m used to spending most of my week in the top 8, pumping out #content and consuming articles that will later become grist for the mill. But over the last few weeks I notice that I’ve been spending more and more time in the bottom half of the list. The article you’re reading now marks the first time in days that I’ve escaped the bottom 3.

I’m not suffering or anything. I’m probably doing great, all things considered. But I really do miss that constant surge of creative energy.

 

 

Footnotes:

[1] Less than 15 minutes?



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59 thoughts on “The Creativity Gradient

  1. Dreadjaws says:

    I feel you. I’m not a writer (well, I do write non-comments stuff but I rarely share it), but I’m an amateur artist. I used to have the urge to draw every day but now I just cannot gather the energy, prefering to spend the day consuming instead. Even when I have some creative idea I pin it on a text file for “later”, only that “later” never comes.

    Hell, I even used to write a lot of movie and videogame reviews on Amazons and certain FB groups I’m in, and I haven’t done that in months. I honestly don’t know what to do to get my creative juices flowing again. The motivation just isn’t there.

    1. RamblePak64 says:

      I don’t know about you, but for me, the first step to getting back into a creative mode is to close all potential tabs and software distractions. Discord gets closed. YouTube tab gets closed. Any tab that’s got something like a comic or other feed or whatnot gets closed. I might even close my e-mail inbox, which stays open because I hate having unread e-mails. I’ll leave myself with just an empty Doc in front of my face, or opening Clip Studio and music software for some tunes, and just get going.

      The most difficult part is that every ten minutes or so I’ll suddenly want to open something to check in on it. It’s an awful habit developed from years of checking forums, feeds, and other junk on the Internet. So suppressing that and keeping focused is the first trial. The next is when I need to quickly research or link something for reference, as opening a new tab to grab a link or skim an article for a quote can be its own distraction. At best, it leads me to do further research which forms whatever I’m writing. At worst, I forget I’m trying to be productive and then go see if any of my subscriptions on YouTube have updated with any amusing content, and I’m ripped right out of my focus and have to reset it.

      In the end, though, it’s about self-discipline (which I am awful at but slowly improving) and making the mood. Sometimes you’re really just mentally exhausted or depressed or something, but even if a draft you write ends up going unused, there’s usually snippets of a structure or other things that can be used in a better draft.

      This is the sort of thing I try to do in order to have some degree of hobby-related productivity whilst juggling my full-time job, otherwise I’d make nothing of value. However, there are some days where the job has me so stressed that all I want is to sit back and watch YouTube videos or something. As always, it’s about balance.

      Granted, this is also under “normal” life circumstances, and not during more stressful life circumstances.

      1. Syal says:

        I’ll paraphrase a couple things from Atomic Habits that got me back into creative writing projects (not finishing them, but, like, putting words in an order):

        The hardest part is showing up, so commit to routinely showing up, and nothing else. Set up an “If X then Y” routine; “Every time I finish brushing my teeth, I’ll follow it up by going to the drawing station and drawing four circles.” Keep the goal very small until you’re used to showing up. (X should be something done regularly but not at burnout pace; I used cups of coffee, which ended up being burnout pace because I drink like seven cups of coffee every day. Still figuring out an alternative, but I’m enough in the writing habit again that I’m making progress despite it.)

        Set up a work station separate from other stations. I’ve got a travel laptop with no internet that’s become “the writing computer”, but you can also try something like, turning your chair around and sitting in it from a different angle. Maybe just throw a colored towel over the back; boom, completely different chair now. Some physical thing to associate with this specific project, to try to stay on task.

        Keep a record of activity. I’ve got a piece of paper where I write down the title to saved documents so I don’t forget about them, which doubles as “hey, look at the ideas I’ve started during this time.”

  2. Lino says:

    On terms of creativity, I absolutely know what you’re going through. When it comes to content for the site, have you considered just sharing some of the video essays you’ve been watching, accompanied with 3-4 sentences of why you liked that particular video?

    I know you don’t like having a blog post be just a YouTube video embed, but I always like those kinds of posts – they often lead to interesting conversations.

    1. Paul Spooner says:

      I’d be down for it.
      Plus, now that Twitter is Under New Management maybe we could get a short series of “Shamus cautiously explores Twitter again” posts.

      1. RamblePak64 says:

        I wouldn’t try it yet. I just opened a new Twitter myself and the very process of signing up had me questioning whether it was a good idea or not. I then had to search for settings to shut off and a plug-in to get rid of Twitter’s recommendations of what to read or follow. And even then… even then

        I’d wait and see first, myself.

        Unless you were joking, in which case this is yet another classic example of me not recognizing the joke.

      2. Zak McKracken says:

        Hmm…. how ’bout Shamus exploring Mastodon?
        Has grown a lot in the last few weeks

  3. SidheKnight says:

    I’m not suffering or anything. I’m probably doing great, all things considered. But I really do miss that constant surge of creative energy.

    I know the feeling. I’m glad to hear that you’re doing well (all things considered, as you said).

    Just let things flow. Don’t try to force creativity. Ideas will come to you when you least expect it (usually when you don’t have something on hand to take notes, frustratingly enough). If you have an interesting thought that you’d like to share but don’t have enough energy to turn it into a full article, post it anyway (you know, just like on Twitter, but without the hate mobs and toxicity inherent to that platform). It might spark interesting discussions. Not every post has to be capital C “Content”.

    Unrelated question: What mode/difficulty do you play Minecraft on? Just curious.

    1. Paul Spooner says:

      Last I heard, Shamus played on Survival, with honor-system Hardcore, where he will stop actively playing that world if he dies.

  4. Asdasd says:

    When I look at your body of work, I’m impressed by both the variety and the quality. I’m envious at how much you’ve turned your hand to and succeeded – but it’s easy to envy the output, disregarding all the countless untold self-doubt, and toil, and frustration, and sheering honing of craft that success must have entailed. I barely muster the strength to do the work I have to, and even when I’m procrastinating, I’m distinctly unambitious in how I do it (I could have finished so many more games when I was slacking off!).

    I guess what I’m saying is, I admire you..? Sorry about how mushy that sounds.

  5. MelfinatheBlue says:

    I feel you, believe me. I’ve gone from taking care of Mom to full time waitress work, and my body and brain are very much “wtf, exhausted.” I spend two of my three days off mostly asleep (I’ve got two overnight shifts in a row), and desperately try to fit as much as possible into Sunday, the one day I’m awake and have energy to do things (but still haven’t quite figured out going to the bank and other must be done in Mon-Fri 8-5 things). As I get used to it, it’s getting better, and hopefully the same is true for you.
    Give yourself some time to adjust, and hopefully you’ll get better at finding/summoning that energy. Hugs!

    1. Zak McKracken says:

      Oh dear. I had nothing I should be complaining about but I went from working 60-h weeks (and feeling the burn-out coming…), through the most stressful house move I’ve ever had into 6 months of unemployed COVID lock-down, at my parents’ place. Didn’t even have to cook, just finally engage in whatever it is that I had been lacking the time to do before.

      So of course I did almost nothing, while regretting that I felt too tired for anything.

      Another house move, job search and over half a year of employment later, I’m still feeling that 40h per week is a little much, and I’m still exhausted after a regular day’s work. So although I’m working way less and my commute is faster and less stressful, I’m feeling like there’s no time in the day for anything else. Just leave me alone everyone, I wasn’t done relaxing yet!

  6. MelfinatheBlue says:

    Oh, also, what about rerunning DM of the Rings? It still holds up (imho), and is more timeless than your Escapists comics (which I’d also love to see rerun but understand that’s more complicated since you have to weed out some). You have a ton of content here, and I’m guessing most people are unfamiliar with your older work.
    Again, hugs! It’ll (hopefully) get better as your body adjusts.

    1. Tholmir says:

      That would be really great! DM of the Rings is what made me come here so long ago, and re-reading it would be fun.

      1. Thomas says:

        It’s good timing too, with the Amazon series coming out in September.

      2. Abnaxis says:

        Same here! I got here when my IRL DM referenced a quiver of little walking sticks when my ninja tried to Gandalf in a staff to a no-weapons-allowed area in a DnD 3.5 game.

        I’d love to binge a re-run, though I think Shamus said he lost the originals for DMotR recently?

        1. Lino says:

          Why would he need the originals? He can just repost the images he has on the site (the original posts are still up).

          I imagine it as reposting the images, alongside the original text, and a paragraph or two about how he feels about the joke/reception to it over ten years later. I think it would be a fun series of posts, and a nice trip down memory lane.

  7. pseudonym says:

    This sounds like you are really, really tired. Which is not surprising giving your condition.

    I hope you are enjoying yourself regardless.
    As for some other low energy activities, maybe some sitting in the garden? Being around the green stuff has proven to improve peoples well-being. Maybe read a nice low key paper book as well? I find that I read much less now there is so much digital entertainment, but when I read a good book, I have to say it is much more fulfilling than browsing some generic content.

  8. smosh says:

    I can reliably tell how shitty my life is going by looking at relative hours of Warframe played. Cancer treatments? Hours go way up.

    1. PPX14 says:

      Aw :(
      My YouTube time is related to how blah I feel, I think.

  9. The+Puzzler says:

    I’m in a similar mental state where just watching something more than a few minutes long feels like an ordeal. Right now my life priority is to avoid too much stress (which I have reason to believe could literally kill me), so I’m not going to force myself to do anything taxing.

    I was going to make a point here, but I don’t feel like it.

  10. Supah Ewok says:

    That sounds like how stress affects me.

    For me, stress generally isn’t an active feeling of anxiety. It’s background noise. If my capacity to feel and want to do things is ideally an empty container, stress is an invisible substance that fills up that capacity and only leaves me room for little stuff. There are multiple many season long shows that I’ve watched completely more than 10 times, back in my university years. Many hours of scrolling through clickbait on the social media feed nowadays when work has me down. I have an entire library to read and dozens of games I want to play, but time after time I scroll through the clickbait or watch little sketches or just lie in bed and daydream. It may not even be stress, per se; even a really good day at work can squeeze out the capacity to engage in mental stimulation if that day required all cylinders firing on the old noggin.

    I once watched a lecture from a psychologist who said that willpower has a finite quality. It is also trainable. So you can train to have a bigger reserve of willpower. But just like with muscles, you apply your willpower too much and you tap out. He used some dieting examples as a way to show how even little things sap at willpower, decreasing your pool. Candy and snacks have this colorful, eyecatching packaging that has been clinically tested to activate some monkey parts of our brains that love to consume easy energy to store for later. Taking, say, Skittles, out of the bag, and putting them into an opaque container, has clinically been demonstrated to reduce the impulse to eat them. And if you reduce that impulse, you don’t have to use willpower in that instance to adhere to a diet, saving it to spend on, say, resisting the urge to get fast food when you have perfectly fine and better for you groceries to eat.

    I think the same concept applies to things such as focus and creativity as well. After all, focus, will power, and creativity are not actionable, demonstrable, quantifiable, discrete meters in our heads. They’re all labels for certain mental processes we feel to personalize them, and I suspect they may all stem from either the same root process or are perhaps a related family of processes, all fueled by the same mental energy. Both psychological and physiological stresses drain that energy, even if there are no emotions accompanying them.

    As a side note, another thing I’ve heard is that it’s been demonstrated that immense efforts of concentration have physiological effects. Chess grandmasters in important matches have been measured to burn 6000-8000 calories a day, if I recall correctly, which is near the daily caloric needs of professional athletes, whereas the average caloric expenditure for a person sitting and fiddling is somewhere between 1800-2200 calories. Race car drivers have been weighed on the same day before and after races and been shown to lose 2-4 lbs [citations not provided]. Our brains are where the majority of our calories are burned every day for most of us. Therefore, physiological disruptions, such as eating habits, metabolism, anything in our energy process, have big effects on our mental abilities.

    1. Thomas says:

      This idea about willpower getting depleted was popular for a while, but it turned out to be a victim of psychology’s replication crisis. When they did some truly huge studies on the idea, they all showed the effect doesn’t exist (it’s called ego depletion if you want to look into it more)

      I can’t remember the context but this specific case changed a lot. I remember reading a book by a psychologist who said he’d believed in the effect himself and the shock when it failed to replicate caused him to re-evaluate how the field should conduct their experiments. It was part of the drive to start using much larger studies with wider sample populations.

      1. Daimbert says:

        I had to do a bit of psychology when I was taking Cognitive Science, and what I found was the biggest issue was that when they came up with these theories and ran the experiments they didn’t take enough time and weren’t good enough at isolating and eliminating confounds, and so even in the simple cases there were a number of other possibilities that they didn’t consider. For example, there’s a long-standing theory that says that we don’t access things in short term memory by iterating over it, but instead by direct access, and yet the experiment gets people to remember and recall into memory a short series of numbers and then return one of them, which noted that there was no significant difference between accessing the first number or the last one. I noted — and did a short computer program experiment to show it — that the issue is that if it takes sufficiently long to load the list into memory then that set time would overwhelm the time it would take to iterate over the elements in the list, and with the normal randomness that we’d get in response times you simply wouldn’t be able to find a significant difference. But even with this potential confound this is cited as one of the most certain psychological theories.

        It also has an issue with refusing to consider or test what the person is doing or believes they are doing and instead tries to find a purely objective way to assess it. There is a reason to do this because people often consciously or unconsciously misrepresent what’s going on, but it then tries to use those to tell people what IS really going on in their heads without bothering to verify that. The biggest one for me is the experiment about determining if two objects are different objects or if they are the same object where one is rotated. The conclusion is that we don’t reason it out but instead rotate it in our minds to compare that, but they did it by calculating how long it takes us to determine that for objects that are rotated further. First, I believe that most people actually CONSCIOUSLY do that, so they could have asked them instead of trying to argue that it’s unconscious. Second, I’m someone who CANNOT do that and so tries to reason it out, and my results are definitely more in line with that idea, and so an argument that we do this even unconsciously is patently false. They could have run the tests anyway, but should really have asked what most people do. Again, this is presented as a basic and obvious psychological result.

        Here, any kind of mental effort is going to take energy, and so if someone is tired they aren’t going to have the energy to make that effort. But it’s not going to be a set amount per day or anything like that, and if you try to train yourself to resist temptation even if your ability does improve — meaning that it takes less energy to do it — you may well still tire yourself out, like in the analogy with muscles. So if you are tired — even from physical exertion — you are likely to be less able to resist temptation even if you haven’t done that previously in the day, and if you resist temptation but get time to rest in-between you are likely to be more able to resist temptation. These are things that we all pretty much know from our day-to-day lives, but from what I can tell wasn’t really considered in the experiments. And hiding the Skittles in an opaque container more obviously means that they don’t stand out, so you don’t see them, so you never NEED to resist the temptation, rather than that reminding yourself of them over and over in a day will deplete the ego.

        So what I think with psychology is that there often is something to what they find, but they can’t replicate their experiments because they don’t consider the confounds carefully enough.

        1. Thomas says:

          I used to volunteer to be a subject for a lot of psychological and economic experiments at uni, and sometimes I did find that set-ups could be a bit shaky.

          The economics experiments were worse for it though, because they all seemed to assume that people were going to care deeply about being given £5. A lot of people there just figured, hey it’s only £5, might as well take the wildest risks. If it was £100 they wouldn’t have done the same thing.

          1. Zak McKracken says:

            Yeah, I thought that about the experiments which showed loss aversion.

            The hypothesis is that we have an irrational fear of losing something, much bigger then the drive to gain the same thing.
            My first thought was that may not actually be irrational. If you have something (say, money), you can plan around it, you can count on being able to use it etc.. If you lose the thing, it will prevent you from doing what you planned to do. If you gain something, on the other hand, a lot less changes for you, and you still need to update your plans to even get good use of your gains.
            Example: If I gain 100€, well nice, maybe I’ll buy something, but I’ll have to see what. If I lose 100€, well that’s my Friday night cancelled, for some people it might reduce their ability to get something to eat at all… being able to plan ahead has a benefit of its own.

            Unfortunately, science that involves humans still requires a lot more than “hard” science skills. It’s crazy how counterintuitive humans can be for other humans…

        2. Fallonor says:

          What’s funny is that the ego depletion theory *exactly* matches the experience I described to my therapist in explaining why my weight loss process has been slow and on average completely unsuccessful.

          I’ve got ADHD that affects me pretty strongly, and I’m also unmedicated for a variety of reasons. My experience has been that even a good, satisfying day at work regularly has me returning home to snack on anything that comes in front of my eyes, fail to do even the most basic exercise, ignoring chores and failing to engage with hobbies I ostensibly care about(at least enough to spend irresponsible sums of money on them). Saturdays I wake up fresh and dive right into stuff but after an 8 hour workday of convincing myself to stay on task, not say anything stupid, keep my hands to myself etc, I felt as if I had exhausted my ability to deny myself.

          What small, temporary success I’ve had has come from finding the least obtrusive way to get exercise, doing it earlier in the day when available, and doing the reverse of self-sabotage by refusing to pack a lunch, forcing myself to rely on a meal replacement shake I had at the time. But the holidays always cut that out from under me and set me back to square one, if not worse.

          I even recognize the Skittle phenomenon, I don’t know that packaging does it for me but one of the reasons I have recently considered medication for my ADHD is because the inability to stop “rediscovering” the temptation to eat the bag of jalapeno chips in my cabinet right now often leads to failure to leave them alone. I buy a few snacks because trying to just not have them results in being grumpy and unhappy and ultimately I’ll *make a trip* and buy something if it goes on, but then I eat them at rates like a bag of chips a day until they’re gone because I cannot put them out of my mind.

          Worse still, everyone including my therapist has trite little ideas that range from “Just don’t buy snacks”(shockingly obvious) to “Join the local exercise groups that drum on exercise balls in full view of the public”(completely out of step with who I am). Like they don’t get that there’s not gonna be a magic choice that suddenly makes short term dopamine hits suddenly stop attracting me.

          1. Zak McKracken says:

            Medication may not solve your problem, but it has a good chance of helping you solve it. If possible, I’d recommend talking to a therapist or some other person to help you reflect on the effects of the medication, how much feels okay, and how you can “use” the effect best. The psychiatrics I’ve dealt with were not suited for that.

            A few things that helped me with weight, despite not managing to do much of anything for a long time (no idea if they’ll help you, of course…):

            – _not_ skipping meals but trying to eat 3-4 of them per day, but reasonably healthy ones, and smaller. If I go too long without food, I get really hungry, and then I over-eat.

            – slowly switching from fatty, sugar-y snacks to fruit. Grapes work really well, so do some of the sweeter apples and pears. The thing is that refined sugar is taken up _much_ faster than the sugar in fruit, so your metabolism learns to control blood sugar by giving you appetite for sugar. Fruit is sweet and satisfies the urge, but doesn’t get in your blood that fast, so your metabolism needs to do what it’s supposed to and use fat. I found the first week a little hard, but I lost over 5kg during that. Loads of people report being more awake after two weeks or so (because blood sugar doesn’t go up and down so hard anymore)

            – 5 minutes of exercise in the morning. I finally started this one during COVID lock-down, when I had the time, but I still do it now, when I have much less time. I just picked two exercises that various physiotherapists had told me were good for my back, and did them. My back got better, so I added more exercises. I’m not super fit, but my weight is where I want it, and the positive feedback from the mirror or other people keeps me at it. It also helps become more awake in the morning which is otherwise hard since I’m decidedly _not_ a morning person.

            – generally, it helps me if I “anchor” any new regular activity. E.g. the rubber band for my exercises is right next to the bed, and the first exercise is always done lying on the back. So I can just roll out of bed and get going. No long routine of getting up, showering, putting running shoes on and going out into the rain…

            – starting small also helped me. I didn’t simply terminate all sweets, but slowly replaced them, and at first replaced them with large amounts of sweet grapes. Over time, the amount came down a little, and my preference shifted to fruit with less sugar and more taste. A little still helps much more than nothing, and might just help you create a positive feedback loop that helps you keep going.

            – There’s still tons of things I want to change/improve, but don’t manage so far. But again, having managed to make one or two changes create a positive feedback loop for making more changes, and I’ve already learned that I need to try a few different methods until something sticks.

      2. Supah Ewok says:

        Alas, so much for that psychology lecture. And for not wanting to Google around for sources before posting.

  11. Amstrad says:

    I personally have a huge motivation problem and spend the majority of my time dwelling down there on the bottom of the list, this is interrupted by bursts of creative activity that I ‘reward’ myself with by switching back to bottom of the list stuff. I’ve tried breaking this habit before and have come to realize it’s just how I work and trying to do it any differently just burns me out on the entire concept of work and makes my productivity even worse for weeks before I recover.

    tl;dr I am a incredibly unproductive human being and have come to accept it.

  12. Paul Spooner says:

    Yeah, health trouble can really take the creative wind out of the old sails. I’ve got a cold at the moment, and it’s just torpedoed my energy levels and motivation.
    The ends of my chart are a bit different, but the list as a whole is Big Mood. Glad “Drown my sorrows in scotch” didn’t make the list. People fall off the bottom real quick that way. As far as low-energy vices go, trawling Reddit seems pretty benign. For me it’s holding the baby. Somehow there’s always enough energy to make nonsense sounds to someone ten times more helpless than me.
    For me, up at the top end is stuff like this: http://blog.hawkbats.com/2021/02/08/isaiah-30-song/
    Though I’m not sure what that says about how I (mis)spend my creative energy.

  13. Daimbert says:

    I’ve long envied your ability to do a number of creative things because from what I can tell you really enjoy the process, and enjoy that less than any particular outcome. I’m the opposite, as I don’t really care about the process but am really interested in achieving that end result, so it can be very, very difficult for me to sit down to do anything if I can’t see an easily or likely path to the end result. The worst for me is programming or writing (except for my blog) because it will take a long time to get anything that I like or want to use and without the end being in sight or having some kind of set deadlines I can’t get motivated to start it. On the flip side, though, for things that can be scheduled and can fit into a set timeline I can get things done just by scheduling it and then completing it, which is nice. It also means that I do less “goofing off” in the manner of the bottom of your list. The worst for me is reading things online — this blog, comics, CRPG addict — but I tend to only do that when I’m waiting for something (and kick myself for not doing something more productive, even commenting, while I had nothing else to do).

    In your case, fatigue is probably playing a role, but I wonder if with the health things you just have other things on your mind and that is interfering with your ability to enjoy the process. The things on the bottom of your list wouldn’t be impacted by thinking about something else, while the things on the top would be.

  14. Shamus says:

    Ok, time for surgery. Wish me luck.

    1. RamblePak64 says:

      Prayers and wishes of good luck.

    2. Lino says:

      Good luck, Shamus! Hoping for the best!

    3. Turtlebear says:

      Hope everything will go well.

    4. pseudonym says:

      Good luck! I hope everything goes well!

    5. Thomas says:

      Best wishes!

    6. PPX14 says:

      Good luck!

    7. evileeyore says:

      Break a leg!

      Wait, no that’s for actors going on stage… err… break a spleen!? Whatever, good luck, best wishes, vibes, godspeed, etc, etc.

      1. bobbert says:

        Break a leg!

        Wait, no that’s for actors going on stage… err… break a spleen!?

        I think for surgery it is, “make sure all of your washers are put on the right way and all of your bolts are torqued to their list values.”

        Also, all the best to Brother Young.

    8. Also Tom says:

      Good luck. Hope it goes well.

    9. Syal says:

      Luck and health.

    10. SidheKnight says:

      Good luck and best wishes!

    11. Damiac says:

      Best of luck Shamus. Hope it all goes well and you’re feeling better soon. We’re pulling for you man.

    12. Richard says:

      Best wishes, hope it goes well

    13. BlueHorus says:

      Luck!

    14. Geebs says:

      Good luck!

    15. Lino says:

      Did everything turn out OK?

    16. Deadyawn says:

      I imagine the surgery is over by now but I’m gonna wish you good luck anyway.

    17. tmtvl says:

      Good luck with the surgery (if it hasn’t happened yet) and recovery.

    18. Laserhawk says:

      May Jesus protect you.

  15. Tony says:

    Hope miracles happen. good luck.Donkey Kong

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