hamletta | I like injections

So, this is exactly news to no one, but living with pain sucks. I've got tendonitis and inflammation in both my shoulders, combined with carpal tunnel issues and residual RSI, and over the last few weeks the pain has been steadily getting worse. But today I had the full diagnosis following the MRI results, and a steroid + anaesthetic injection in the right shoulder (the most painful -- I'm right-handed). In two weeks, I'm getting the second injection. And I already feel better. There's still pain, but milder, and most of all I now know what's wrong and have a physio plan to take care of it. Yay!

I hope I'll sleep better, too, because the pain had been waking me up every hour or so. Combined with my self-inflicted destructive sleeping patterns (i.e., going to bed at 7 am and getting up at 4 pm, thereby missing daylight entirely) this has been making me tired and depressive. The prospect of Christmas isn't helping, but that's another matter.

I've been making slow but steady progress on the new novel, and I'm really liking my incentive program. The reward for hitting the first 10k words was a nib. A fancy nib, though, for the new Montegrappa pen I got, which has a very pretty nib but not as wet as I like. I could tune it, of course, but then I saw a Black Friday sale on a very stubby nib for this very pen (Montegrappa Ducale) and I just couldn't resist it.

(That's the pen, but with a standard nib).

The funny thing was that the sale was at Selfridges, which sell fancy stuff but are not exactly a pen specialist, so the nib was only described as "nib replacement" -- no information about size at all. All I had to go by was the picture:

I mean, this looks pretty stubby, right?

So I ordered it, and it has just arrived. The stubbiest stub in my possession. Still zero description, but it's 1.8 at least. Will I even be able to write with it? Who knows... :D

Now I need to figure out what I'm getting for the next 10k...