Knew I Kept Those Crutches For A Reason

I admit, that I left this one until the last minute. Josh's theme is Spines and Hospitals. I had other ideas, but then Monday morning I was putting my shoe on and looked at the big red scar that curves around my ankle. Then I looked up and saw my crutches. An idea was born. I started with the red ink on the end of my crutch and stamped the paper. That looked like a poorly done Target ad, so I added the black stamps. Then I started drawing stitches. At that point, I thought, what the heck, lets do some real stitching. So I cut holes in the paper, backed it with red construction paper and stitched them up. They actually, look not unlike the scars on my ankles. 

pencil and pen

I pencil sketched over the weekend and came up with this. I had back surgery in January, and it has dominated just about every part of my life. The top half shows a frontal view of a spine, my doctor's eyes, my hospital bed, and the phrase "Goodnight, Mr. Joshua," the last thing I heard before going under the anaesthesia. The bottom half shows a spine from the side and lots of numbers. Some are the weight I've lost, some are my class periods, some are my vertebrae numbers. The spines in the top and bottom show the places where the vertebrae are fused by screws and rods, and I drew those in pen. --Josh

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