Author's Note: Update 12/27/2012

First, I want to Thank Everyone that has reviewed any of my stories in the past three and a half months and apologize for not answering you in person. I wish I could do so, but unfortunately, as you have probably guessed, typing is still an extremely painful activity. I can only say that I have every intention of returning to writing as soon as I can…what I can't say is when that will be, so I will fill you in on what I do know.

Andy's injuries are healing and he is back to work, although he is still limping and is in rehab for his elbow. While he won't regain all of his range of motion, he is doing pretty good considering the extent of the damage, and they are hopeful that he will regain somewhere over 75% of his flexion and almost all of his extension. That is good.

As for me, there seems to be some nerve involvement that is causing a lot of pain. The break I suffered was a long, spiral fracture of the humerus. I'm told that it will take a long time to return to normal…up to a year. Since my pain should, at this point, be decreasing, but doesn't seem to be doing so, I will be seeing a pain management specialist after the first of the year. While the pain tends to occur in the break area most of the time, at other times it moves to my shoulder, forearm, and even my wrist. This is leading them to believe that it is nerve involvement, especially since the break itself appears to be healing all right. I will know more after I see the pain specialist next month, but I get the impression that it is going to be a matter of controlling the pain, until such time as the nerve heals/settles/or whatever it needs to do.

Unfortunately, typing is one of the things that causes a great deal of pain, so I have only been doing what is absolutely necessary. I can use my right hand to hunt and peck for something like this. I have stopped considering and made the decision to try voice recognition after the first of the year, as well, so as soon as I get it and learn to use it, I am hopeful that I will be able to do at least a little writing.

Be assured that I will continue with my three WIP stories, and start my upcoming sequels to Alliance, To Make a Queen, and Tok'Ra Dawn as soon as I possibly can.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, Yule, or however you look upon it, and that your New Year will be happy and prosperous.

Best Wishes, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Blessed Be,

Pagan

Author's Note: Update 11/1/2012

I felt that I should give you all an update, since Real Life has decided that I need more challenges to overcome.

First, my significant other's hobby of choice is paragliding. He is a very good pilot, however, even the best can't always control everything. While paragliding Sunday, he had a rather serious accident and is now in the hospital. He was in surgery for six hours as they attempted to rebuild his right elbow, which was shattered. (His glider did not respond as quickly as he expected, and he hit the side of the ridge he was working/flying along. He has numerous other more minor, but extremely painful injuries down his right side, which took most of the impact and subsequent bouncing down the mountainside. Two of the worse injuries are to his hip, which sustained deep bruising from it to three-quarters of the way to his knee, and his right ankle.

Sorry to bore you with all the details, but I hope it will help you to understand why I will be somewhat longer than even I expected before returning to my writing. He will need a lot of care-taking for several weeks. I can only hope that my daughter remains accident free and thus able to help both of us!

My own broken arm is still not functional for typing yet, and from what I have been told, will not be for perhaps six weeks or more. Since it is not yet healed, I have a very limited range of motion that does not produce pain. At Least the constant pain is now pretty much gone, but movement pain is still abundant, if I attempt to use it in certain ways...typing falls into that category. I tried to do some on Sunday and I can't do it yet.

I just wanted to assure you that I will return to working on them, but I have no way of knowing how soon, or how far down the road that will be. As soon as I can do it, though, I will, so all I can do is ask for your patience.

Thanks for all of your kind wishes from before, and I apologize if I didn't yet reply. I will do so as soon as I can, as I have all of the comments that I have not yet answered. I only move them to my permanently saved file, after I reply to them. If I've ever missed replying to someone, it was purely an oversight. For those of you that have replies disabled, I want you to know that I am always appreciative of your comments, and I thank you for them.

Best Wishes,

Pagan

Author's Note: 9/22/2012

Hi everyone. Well, I've now finished the last of my contest/challenge fics, and so am free to work on non-dead-lined stories, i. e. my three WIPs. That's the good news.

Unfortunately, there is bad news to go with it. Very early Wednesday morning, I broke my arm rather badly. At first, they thought it would need pinned; however they have changed their minds, which is a good thing. However, regardless of whether they use a pin or a pressure cast, typing is a laborious chore; therefore, it will be at least six weeks before I can work on my stories. I'm looking into voice recognition software, but so far, have not decided, if I will go that route. If I do, then hopefully, I will have something to you sooner.

I will soon post the last challenge fic that I wrote. It is called Tok'Ra Dawn, and is 12 chapters, and approx. 100,000 words long. I hope you will enjoy it, while awaiting the next new chapter of this fic.

I apologize for the long delay, but I will continue with all three of my WIPs, as soon as I can.

Sincerely,

Pagan