Unkie
06-05-2007, 03:57 PM
Well, lets start by saying that I am 37 years old and a father of four children. Some of you may ask yourself..why is this guy into GFX? Hes way too old!??!!
Well, here is the reason in a nut shell.
Three years ago, a friend of mine bought me a copy of photoshop cs2, so I started monkeying around with it.
Shortly after, I began to have physical problem.. my legs and feet would swell up for no reason..I brushed it away to the idea that it was just my new job @ Tyson foods..where I was a forklift operator~standup forklift.
So obviously I was on my feet for more than 3 hours at a time, with maybe a 15 minute break in between each three hour interval..
Well, weeks went by and my condition worsened drasticly.
I am now in a wheel chair, I have Nueropothy of the lower legs and feet.
I havenet been out of my home for the past three years, except to goto the doctor appointments @ a local VA Military Hospital. Im a veteran of the Persian Gulf war. United States Navy.
I have had this condition for three years as I said and with all this free time @ home, I obviously gravitated towards my first love, art.
Just recently a good friend of mine in the Netherlands, bought a GFX web site and asked me to help run it. You can see the site in my sig area.
So....in a nut shell...this is me, how I got here...why Im here and why ...Im talking to you!
:P
Thanks for reading about me!
B)
Well, here is the reason in a nut shell.
Three years ago, a friend of mine bought me a copy of photoshop cs2, so I started monkeying around with it.
Shortly after, I began to have physical problem.. my legs and feet would swell up for no reason..I brushed it away to the idea that it was just my new job @ Tyson foods..where I was a forklift operator~standup forklift.
So obviously I was on my feet for more than 3 hours at a time, with maybe a 15 minute break in between each three hour interval..
Well, weeks went by and my condition worsened drasticly.
I am now in a wheel chair, I have Nueropothy of the lower legs and feet.
I havenet been out of my home for the past three years, except to goto the doctor appointments @ a local VA Military Hospital. Im a veteran of the Persian Gulf war. United States Navy.
I have had this condition for three years as I said and with all this free time @ home, I obviously gravitated towards my first love, art.
Just recently a good friend of mine in the Netherlands, bought a GFX web site and asked me to help run it. You can see the site in my sig area.
So....in a nut shell...this is me, how I got here...why Im here and why ...Im talking to you!
:P
Thanks for reading about me!
B)