Walking Carefully With Braces

I got my custom knee braces last week. They are wonderful! With them on I can walk around very carefully. I have very little stamina, so once I walk to the kitchen I take a rest in a chair, and once I get back to my room I get back in bed. I've been doing physical therapy each day and am gaining strength back. It's coming back faster than we expected, which is wonderful.

Here's a picture of my braces and my cute leggings:

The braces give me so much stability and also stop the really bad pain I get when my left knee twists to the side (because it keeps it from twisting). They also stop my knees from bending backwards, which in turn keeps my knee caps from dislocating.

As soon as we can get my insurance to cooperate I will be getting custom ankle braces as well. They will be molded to fit my feet and will fix the way my arches collapse when I stand, and will give them stability to help them not roll and sublux constantly. I've been wearing braces from Walgreens, but all professionals involved with my braces agree that they are not enough. I'm excited for the custom ones. With the braces for both my knees and ankles, I should be pretty stable. I just need to keep building my strength back up. :) :)

I lost the ability to walk....

As the title says, last Monday I lost the ability to walk. My legs just gave out under me and I couldn't get up. I spent 8 days in the hospital doing tons of tests and got home at the beginning of this week. We still don't know what happened to cause the issues with my legs, but we know what it is not. I am able to do what I call "shuffle-walking" now, which is me shakily moving without lifting my feet while someone steadies me and helps hold me up. My mom is about to buy a wheelchair online and we'll go from there. We are all hoping that with sturdy braces and physical therapy that we can get me walking again, and we think it will happen. I might not be able to walk "normally" for some time, or possibly ever again, but if I can walk unassisted I'll be happy. I've had a pronounced limp for some time, and on bad days my right leg was already dragging somewhat, so I don't care if my walking looks funny. I just want to be able to function better. Functioning better right now means making my house more accessible, so that is what we're working towards.

Luna's House Update

Hi everyone. I recently decided to completely change the building of Luna's house. I had just run out of ideas for the one I had been using for years. I really tried to make this one lore-friendly, and think I succeeded pretty well. I really like how it is turning out. I'm struggling a bit with the tower and exterior, though. I need to move the house back a bit so that there is room to actually decorate the front of the house, and I don't know what else to put in the tower but overall it's turning out nicely.

Alchemy Station Near the Kitchen

Kitchen

Downstairs Storage

Bedroom

(The Mushroom Tree Might Be Replaced With a Fishtank)

Tower

Exterior

If any of you guys have ideas for the tower or exterior, please share them in the comments. I'd love to hear what you think. I really like this new building. Please let me know what you think. :)

Ironwood Nut Retex

I have always hated the way the ironwood nut looks. It's just a blurry mess... I often want my characters to snack of them, but haven't wanted to place any decorative dishes around their homes because the nuts just look yucky.

Well not anymore! The original texture was 32x32, and my replacer is 256x256. You can clearly see the texture of the shell, and the green bits look a bit more appetizing now.

The Terrible Original:

My New & Improved Version:

There is an optional icon replacer included as well. Just drop it into your Textures folder along with the main file and you'll have a complete ironwood nut makeover. I kept the icon optional in case anyone has a particular liking for the vanilla icons and didn't want to force my different looking one on them.

My Icon:

A Cute Pic of a Bowl of Nuts in Luna's Unfinished Tower:

Download - Nexus

Credits:

jbvw for the texture that I modified to become the shell of the nuts

Red Rogue Armor (And Clothing)

** If you downloaded before 8/22/20, please redownload because there was a problem with the texture paths. **

I made another outfit based on art I found on Pinterest. I've called this one the Red Rogue Armor. It comes in both armor and clothing options. The clothing option has the pauldrons removed. The outfit is female only and uses the HGEC body.

Here is the picture they are based on:

And here is how it turned out. I actually got in-game pics this time, and you can see a tiny preview of Luna's new house as well:

The outfits can be found in the testing hall. The box is white and covered in red flowers. It is sticking out of the wall next to the door to Hawkhaven. You can fast travel from Hawkhaven once you get the goodies. The box will respawn. The boxes can be used as a modder's resource as long as you credit me and Korana (the original creator of the boxes). Both the armor and clothing versions use my generic "Lunasprite Icon" as the icon. As I have said before, I hate making icons and it can keep me form finishing projects, so now I use the same icon for everything.

Download - V2

Credits:

Room207

Chakaru

Darigaz17

Mondstein

zzjay

Korana

Shaman's Robe

** If you downloaded before 8/22/20, please redownload because there was a problem with the texture paths. **

One of things I do when I'm bored is look up pictures of fantasy characters on Pintrest and try to recreate them in Oblivion. Of course I can't make any of them exact, so I try to get the feel of the outfit more than an exact copy.

A while ago I came across this image of a Shaman, and decided that that robe just needed to exist in my game.

There are both male and female variations. Here's the pictures. (I'm not feeling up to going into the game and finding a nice location to take screenshots, so I just took pics in Nifskope.) 

Female:

Male:

Hood:

The outfit can be found in the testing hall as always. It is in a gift box covered in hedgehogs (lol so cute). The box will respawn. The ground mesh is also a hedgehog box. I keep forgetting to mention it, but any of my gift boxes can be used as a modder's resource strangely patterned presents or something. If you use the boxes, you'll need to give credit to Korana for the original meshes.

Gift Boxes:

I hope you enjoy this little mod. I would suggest that you use it along side my Shaman Equipment and Shaman's Real Estate mods. Clicking on those names will take you to the blog pages they can be found on. Happy Shaman-ing!

Download V2

Revised About Me - Get to Know Me

My name is Skyler, Skye for short. I am nonbinary and prefer they/them pronouns, but don't take offense to she/her. I am chronically ill and autistic. I love to sing, and spend most of my time either playing video games, modding Oblivion, or watching way too much Youtube. I am very optimistic, which makes a massive difference in how I navigate the world.

I have a few different illnesses. I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS), Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome. POTS and Mast Cell are very frequently seen in Ehlers Danlos patients.

EDS causes my body to not produce collagen properly, and collagen is in every part of your body. It causes my joints to be so loose and floppy that they often partially dislocate. I haven't had any full dislocations yet, but many many EDS patients have dislocations all the time. I consider my self lucky that mine isn't that severe, at least right now. EDS gets worse as you get older so who knows what will happen in the future. :(

POTS is a disorder where your body can't properly regulate your blood flow, so when you stand up blood pools in your legs and feet. This causes your heart to beat way to fast in an attempt to get the blood flowing properly. Unfortunately my heart doesn't realize that that is a very bad thing to do, so I get dizzy when I stand up. Luckily I haven't fainted yet. Many POTS patients faint a lot. Again, I'm lucky not to have it as bad as some people. Taking a shower is hard because POTS is massively triggered by heat, so I have to be extra careful not to fall, and use a shower chair to shower safely. Even with the chair I have fallen a few times when standing up to get out of the shower. Summer is awful for people with POTS because of the heat.

Mast Cell Activation Syndrome is a disorder where the cells that cause allergic reactions react when they shouldn't. Reactions can be triggered by anything. My biggest triggers are perfume, smoke, and most scented products like deodorant or hair products. My mom goes out on the front porch to use hairspray, for which I am very grateful. I wear a cloth filtration mask when I leave the house to help keep me from reacting. It has really been a game changer. It helps so much, but I do still have at least one reaction most days. I never leave the house without my Epi-pen, but thankfully I haven't needed it yet, although there have been a few close calls.

As I mentioned, I am also Autistic, so I don't do well with loud noises or people touching me. I actually like being Autistic, though. It comes with both good things and bad. Some good things are my ability to memorize song lyrics and movie lines really easily, my major love for modding Oblivion and the ability to focus on modding and block out pretty much every thing else. Autistic people call that a special interest. Mine is the Elder Scrolls universe in general. I do flap my hands when I am stressed or excited (two different ways of flapping for two different emotions), and I rock a lot. I'm not embarrassed by those things, which is a majorly good thing, because they really help calm me down and it is very hard for me to go out in public without some kind of soothing repetitive motion. My mom and I actually think that my happy flapping is really cute and it makes her smile whenever I'm excited and start bouncing and flapping.

I hope this has helped you get to know me a bit, and that you'll stick around for my mods and ramblings.