Maybe All I Need Is A Shot In The..... Neck?

Yesterday I went to the pain management clinic to get my facet block injections. Basically they numbed me in a couple spots on my neck, then gave me the nerve block shots which went in deep to some nerves that come off of my spine.... right around my C2 and C3 vertebrae. I'm not gonna lie... it wasn't the most pleasant experience. It didn't hurt really, but just tremendous amounts of pressure. Anyways, they said that it may take a couple days to notice anything, and that I'd have a really sore neck for a few days.... they weren't kidding. No help so far today, as I've also got a rather bad headache. If however it ends up working, which they told me would be a 50% reduction in my headaches, then they would do another one in about a month to make sure this one wasn't a fluke. If that one worked also, then that opened up all kinds of new roads, such as freezing the nerve, burning it, etc.... permanantly blocking it. So I'll keep you updated as to whether they work or not.

Also today, we finally closed on our house that we sold in Radford. About a week or so late, but at least that burden is off our shoulders..... now if things will just work out for the one we wanna buy down here.....

DIY Ringflash/light

I've been a little bored lately, so I decided to make a ringlight/flash for my camera. When you use the flash on your camera, it sometimes (most of the time) gives you that harsh flash look to your pictures with a pretty bad shadow. Well a ringflash softens the light a bit and gets rid of the shadow for the most part. You can buy a ringflash that fits over your speedlight for a couple hundred bucks or so, but my version cost less than a couple bucks. I used some cardboard, aluminum foil on the inside to reflect the light around, a piece of white garbage bag to diffuse the light when it comes out, and lots.... LOTS of tape.

Here's a shot with just the flash....

...and here's one with my contraption attached.... gives a little better light on her I think (even though the photo itself is a little blurry, chalk to that up to operator error)

Anyways, nothing really spectacular, just thought it was cool and something to share.