Hello. I hope you are doing good.

The first thing I really want to say is Thank You for the kind comments on my Facebook page and in other places. I was in a world of hurt and your comments made me feel cared about. I know I am not as active online as I ever used to be so many years ago, so I really feel blessed to have people like you. I wasn't sure if anyone even remembered my page when I started writing again last year. So the whole experience has been touching. I thank you dearly for caring and saying kind things. :)

It was not my intention to be misleading about how often I would update. I had surgery on my dominate wrist/hand and didn't expect this long period of silence to be the outcome. I neglected email, messages, social media, etc for several weeks. Even now, I have not really caught up yet and I feel constantly bad about it. Life is so overwhelming at times that I forget to do the most basic of things. I really am sorry. I am trying though, I am trying.

This log is mostly me catching up with you, it's not focused entirely on Tamagotchi. I am going to talk about my surgery and other random thoughts. And also some Tamagotchi. The next log will be more Tamagotchi focused though.

Alright, so grab a coffee with me and away we go...

In March, I was finally able to get the surgery needed for my hand. It has been several years of pain, that it eventually led to me using only a phone for internet. I have arthritis, so I knew I had carpal tunnel pinching and inflammation but as it got worse I stopped being able to grip things. I was dropping things all the time. The pain woke me up at night. It was too much discomfort to type on a computer at all. It was very frustrating too.

I got an appointment to get a procedure called carpal tunnel release with flexor tenosynovectomy. If you want the technical details I'm sure google can help, but basically they were going to fix all of these problems.

I had looked up the carpal tunnel release procedure before and knew it was to be simple and not open surgery and a really fast recovery. When he talked, the doctor made it seem like the flexor tenosynovectomy was not a big deal and that it was just an extra thing they decided to add for my situation after the (painful) nerve test. Now that was my impression - but I should have looked further into it. In my mind I expected to be continuing logs after a week of healing. I had even scheduled a hatching with Dennis. I didn't even bother posting that I might be gone for a while. Silly me. I was very focused on Tamagotchi and things happening at my house that I did not give it too much worry. Seriously I feel pretty dumb looking back on it.

They put me out for the procedure and I woke up a couple of hours later. I was told everything went good even though they found more stuff wrong and it took longer than expected. But I was going home in the evening - that was music to my ears. At that point my biggest pain was the IV and as soon as they pulled that out everything felt better. They had me on some good pain meds. By the time I got home though, the pain was ripping through the meds they gave me. They prescribed me a very weak pain medication with only 4 days on the prescription. Which is insane.

That first 24 hours was unbelievably indescribably painful. I have had other surgeries and stuffs, but never on my wrist or hand. They can only give weak pain meds outside the hospital these days. And believe me, I noticed when the hospital pain med wore off.

I couldn't move my fingers at all. Any time I tried, I paid for in pain. It dawned on me that I wasn't going to be writing logs any time at all soon, or doing any typing at all. I was eventually told that it would take around 6 months to fully heal.

I actually had to ask for another refill later in the week because the pain was so horrific. Luckily the surgeon gave me the OK for it.

During this time I tried very hard to type a message on my Mimitchi.com Facebook page. Boy that was so difficult.. left hand single finger poking my phone while it lay on the table.. it was comical really. :) At that time I realized I was basically going to be unable to do anything online for Tamagotchi updates - which was a big disappointment really. I was in the mood to write, and was stuck just watching TV and sleeping. So. Much. Sleep. My body wanted healing sleep, there were days I slept around 16 hours.

I had to start using my left hand for everything. What a fun challenge it was. Cay had to help me with many things like putting on my socks and getting my medications. She made me dinner every night. She even helped me floss after eating popcorn! Most of all she is always my dearest friend. Cay is my hero.

I resorted to sending voice messages to family and that worked out okay enough. Some of us are not big phone people, including me.

I still had lots of Tama's running at the time. I had no intention of putting Tamagotchi on hold. I did have to pause them a whole lot occasionally.

I have been playing with several Tamagotchi the whole time I've been gone (as is reflected on my Tama's listed by date at the bottom of the past and present Tama logs page.). In fact, I credit Tamagotchi for helping me begin my journey of recovery.

Right after surgery, I started playing with my Tama one handed with my left hand. With my right hand, I could barely grip a Tama, yet alone move my thumb... everything hurt so much from my elbow down. I had a gigantic bruise that covered my whole inner forearm. When I started to move my fingers, I started using my right hand to play with my Tamagotchi. It was excruciatingly painful, but my desire to play with my Tamas motivated me to grip and push buttons with my thumb. It was a great way to push myself to start moving my fingers and begin the healing process.

I had problems with my splint the very first week and the wound ended up being infected by the time I saw the surgeon two weeks later. That was a painful nightmare. The surgeon mistreated me during this time, which is a long story. I almost published the story here. I even wrote the whole thing out, but I feel like the world has enough negativity in it. So let me just say it was not a good first month after that surgery. I felt very hurt, more than physically. In the end, the surgeon ended up apologizing to me multiple times.

I have been busier than I thought I would during this time period. As my wrist and hand got better, I needed to do more challenging physical activities. I have been gardening and doing work around the house (the best I can).

The gardening takes a lot more energy than I imagined it would. However we have been working on creating our own food forest so we can be able to have access to healthy foods. And really food is so much healthier grown at home, and of course good for saving money. In the face of a horribly expensive economy, it's always good to have alternatives to super high prices,

Ever since I started my first two G1 and G2's last year that Dennis gave me, I haven't stopped running Tamagotchi. I find myself in love with them all over again. Not just the remakes, but also Tamagotchi that I originally missed out on years ago. I really enjoy the Mix, Meets, and Uni along with Gen1/2. I am trying to gather up at least one of each Tama that Bandai released in the past. I have several more Tama's, but I haven't yet dedicated time to them. I will get to them Soooooon. If only I had way more hands and many more hours in a day to dedicate to them! More info to come about them later.

I am running 6 Tamagotchi right now. My Tamagotchi Meets (my newest Tama) who is named Nejipegasatchi, at least that's what google translator tells me. He's a robot character, I love him!

I am running both of my Uni's. On my dark purple one I still have Mimitchi and he is 207 days old. I have a hard time letting go of any Mimitchi when I have a choice to keep them. I also accidentally got Mimitchi on my light purple Uni. I kept him for quite a while but finally recently decided to start breeding them again. So my light purple Uni has Unimarutchi now. This is my first time of getting this character. He's really a unique person! I like that he can be male or female. I am not sure which he is, so maybe he is two-hearted.

On my Spacey Blue Mix, I have Supechotchi whom is a butterfly character I've had for a while now. He's 106 days old. I really like this little guy, but I will start breeding them again someday soon. On my Anniversary Gift Mix I have my blue Mimitchi. He's 238 days old. I get attached to characters lol.. I will someday mate them and get a whole new experience there. For now, I really like them both. I wish I had all of the Mix and Meets different shells!

And finally I have one Gen2 going. My yellow with orange border Tama is a Tongaritchi and on the road to becoming Mimitchi. I also had Hashizotchi, but he passed away while I was writing this log. I'll be hatching another G1 or G2 soon. Also my new Angel, I think today or tomorrow or shortly after I get Mimitchi.

There have been several times I've had 11 Tamagotchi going in the last several months. I have had the Mix's, Meets, and Uni's going since the days that I obtained them. I like that I can send them home during the days so I can do other stuff but still enjoy them in the evenings.

How I so wish the Gen1/2 remakes were made in a similar way so I could keep the characters as long as my heart desires. I would always have Mimitchi. I really don't like that the low battery thing comes up and completely deletes my characters. There's no download or anything like on the connections.

I wish Bandai had not put in that stupid low battery thing at all - it was not on the originals!! So when the screen got dim in the 1990's I could toss out the batteries and pop in new ones before the screen shut off so I could keep my characters going. I don't know what compelled Bandai to do this low battery thing when it was never on the original and really it has no value and takes away from the experience. If you are going to keep putting this stupid concept into Tamagotchi - try to give us a download option on the Gen1/2's! Argh. Frustrating. Bandai doesn't look at my website anymore - but if you are not happy with that low battery thing, please write to them. Maybe if enough of us write to Bandai they will fix it in the next release of Gen1/2's!

Well that is it for this log for now. I have my Tamagotchi Paradise's on pre-order! I have a bunch to say about them. I will talk about that more in the next log. :)

PS: Sorry this log is pretty unorganized and patched together. It's the result of several attempts over the last month. lol