Happy Monday morning everyone.

So... a follow-up from last night's post: during dinner last night my back started hurting. At first it was just uncomfortable and that is usually as far as it has been going these days. I excused myself from the table and tried to take some Ibuprofen. Too late, the pain progressively got worse and worse. So I went back and thanked those who came to dinner and had to go lay down.

Then it happened for the 2nd time in my life - I had a panic attack. My chest and lungs started freaking out from the back pain and I couldn't breath very well. I started pacing my room (what floor space I have left in my room) and then tried laying down again... and nothing was helping. So I sucked up my pride and gently walked down the hall and asked my roommate for help.

To be honest... I don't remember much after that. I vaguely remember Icy-Hot and a heating and cooling treatment while also calming my breathing until the pain finally went away. Next thing I know, I wake up thinking I'm late for work. It was 5:30am. Which is exactly the time I normally wake up for work. So thankfully it all worked out. But what a scare.

Now, I remember reminding myslf that some people go through this every day. And so as I sit here this morning feeling somewhat better and start to reflect, I find myself wanting to keeep on pushing. Try to make things better. Work as hard as I can to accomplish what I want in life.

This weekend was supposed to be yet another weekend of hard work and payout with sharing artwork and updates with everyone. And once again, I let things go. I wanted so very much to finally be caught up. I'm not. I wanted so very much to share new pages and new art designs. I didn't. But... I still refuse to give up.

So why do I say Happy Monday morning, despite all these issues? Because, why the hell should I give up when I still have so much I want to do. That isn't a question. That is a statement. I will never give up and I will continue to move forward as much as I can.

I'm going to be attempting a second Blog today to go along with some fund raising I need to do. This will go with more updates for gregscottbailey.com as well as updates on mocktales.com. So stay tuned for more. I'm going to be doing this on my lunch break and then post after I get off work tonight.