Near death experience and my home-made solution

I've recently been a victim of a terrible affliction that struck me down, rendering me incapacitated and near-death for days on end. If I'm totally honest it was actually a double-pronged assault on my health and combined, well, it's miraculous that I survived. But survive I did.

I refer, of course, to Lego-fatigue and Lego thumb. Trust me, you don't want either, such terrible conditions to have.

Lego-fatigue: (Legoitis fatigalitis) Neck and shoulder muscle pain and tightness contracted through prolonged hours of Lego-building, hunching over instructions and straining one's neck looking for tiny lego parts. This affliction is exacerbated by a Lego-building work-station that is too high for the Lego builder. (In my case, the dining table).

Lego-thumb: (Legoenduim thumbalitis) A fairly obviously-named affliction that relates to Lego and one's thumb. This, believe it or not, is where the name derives from. Essentially, Lego being pushed into place by one's thumb leaves said appendage feeling a little sore right at the end of the digit.

Each of these illnesses have no known cure. One either get's better over time, or not. I, fortunately for you because you'd miss my amazing posts, managed to get better - My amazing physical condition and resilience combined with a little luck from the Lego-gods and little by little I clawed my way back from the brink of death.

Since my battle for life, and subsequent miraculous recovery, I have made changes in the hope these afflictions will not return and bring me low all over again.

I have relocated my Lego building-station to my home office, clearing out a whole lot of stupid and unimportant business paperwork in the process. You can see, in the image above, that the workspace is now dedicated to Lego all except the small amount reserved for some pens and a post-it-note pad which I have left to keep up the charade that it is, indeed, a workspace. So, essentially, you're looking at a tax-deductible Lego building work-space.

You can see the Landrover Defender in production in this image but shortly this build will be complete and the Mack Anthem will enter production.

It's unlikely I'll suffer from another near-death experience due to Lego-fatigue or Lego thumb now, although anything is possible I guess; I can't promise that I won't engage in another 6-hour Lego-sesh in the future though so who knows. It's sort of addictive once the build starts...

Anyway, to the person who asked about my Lego building area, you're looking at it here in this image. I'm pleased to have this little area although not as pleased as my wife is that the dining table isn't covered with Lego 24/7 anymore. To be honest though, I think a bigger concern for Faith should be where dafuq are all these Lego builds getting displayed once they are done! 😂

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(Great Barrier Reef acrylic on canvas painting partially shown in the image courtesy of my dads artistic genius)