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Health Update and Commission Delays
3 years ago
TL;DR I have Crohn's and I'm not sure when I'll get back to art or be able to take new commissions.
So I finally finally got a diagnosis of Crohn's disease, which is an autoimmune disease of the gut*. I've been struggling with my health with it getting worse and worse over the last 4 years or so (I've been presenting symptoms since I was a kid in hindsight). I don't know all the details yet, though I'm considered mild and don't (and hopefully won't) need any invasive treatments like immune suppressants or surgery. I have a pretty high chance of getting everything into remission over the next 5 years or so.
However, between the more acute flare-ups and university, I have not had much time or emotional resources to work on art. All of my current backlog commissions are for friends and I've been keeping them updated, but some of them are hitting well over a year in wait time at this stage to give you an idea (my usual turnover is 3-6mo at most). As such I genuinely don't know when I'll be able to take commission work again, it could legitimately be another year before I start seeing a decent improvement. I have been unable to work this whole summer which is about as exciting as it sounds**.
I really appreciate you guys sticking with me and all the support over the years, my reduced art output has not been intentional to this extreme, I had wanted to keep working the whole time I was in Uni on commission work so this has not gone remotely to plan. I'm a little anxious about doing such a personal update on main but I feel like it's fair to let ya'll know what's going on and gives me a chance to start learning to talk about it.
*Basically in Crohn's the immune system starts attacking the gut and creates ulcers*** in the intestinal wall, creating issues with not being able to absorb nutrients and calories. It also causes a lot of inflammation of the gut, and potentially other soft tissue (my wrist and ankles hurt during a flare from the inflammation). The practical side for me is I am in pain often, tired most of the time, have a lot of brain fog and focusing issues, and cannot eat a lot of foods at all (tuna, pasta, chicken and potato baby). Now that I have a diagnosis, I can get on a treatment plan, I should slowly start improving and having less acute attacks, and widening my diet again over time. It's a relief to know what's going on, but it's also still an adjustment having a label to actually talk about what's happening to my body.
**Spoiler: It's not very exciting. Hello pillow my old friend, I've come to talk to you again.
***The ulcers are different than in Ulcerative Colitis (which only effects part of the colon), though both fall into the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) category.
So I finally finally got a diagnosis of Crohn's disease, which is an autoimmune disease of the gut*. I've been struggling with my health with it getting worse and worse over the last 4 years or so (I've been presenting symptoms since I was a kid in hindsight). I don't know all the details yet, though I'm considered mild and don't (and hopefully won't) need any invasive treatments like immune suppressants or surgery. I have a pretty high chance of getting everything into remission over the next 5 years or so.
However, between the more acute flare-ups and university, I have not had much time or emotional resources to work on art. All of my current backlog commissions are for friends and I've been keeping them updated, but some of them are hitting well over a year in wait time at this stage to give you an idea (my usual turnover is 3-6mo at most). As such I genuinely don't know when I'll be able to take commission work again, it could legitimately be another year before I start seeing a decent improvement. I have been unable to work this whole summer which is about as exciting as it sounds**.
I really appreciate you guys sticking with me and all the support over the years, my reduced art output has not been intentional to this extreme, I had wanted to keep working the whole time I was in Uni on commission work so this has not gone remotely to plan. I'm a little anxious about doing such a personal update on main but I feel like it's fair to let ya'll know what's going on and gives me a chance to start learning to talk about it.
*Basically in Crohn's the immune system starts attacking the gut and creates ulcers*** in the intestinal wall, creating issues with not being able to absorb nutrients and calories. It also causes a lot of inflammation of the gut, and potentially other soft tissue (my wrist and ankles hurt during a flare from the inflammation). The practical side for me is I am in pain often, tired most of the time, have a lot of brain fog and focusing issues, and cannot eat a lot of foods at all (tuna, pasta, chicken and potato baby). Now that I have a diagnosis, I can get on a treatment plan, I should slowly start improving and having less acute attacks, and widening my diet again over time. It's a relief to know what's going on, but it's also still an adjustment having a label to actually talk about what's happening to my body.
**Spoiler: It's not very exciting. Hello pillow my old friend, I've come to talk to you again.
***The ulcers are different than in Ulcerative Colitis (which only effects part of the colon), though both fall into the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) category.
Hope you manage to get it under control and are feeling better soon!
Eat only what is most near to the natural, and fermentated things.
Try some colon cleanse diet, activated carbon, MgSo4, and take all-in-one B vitamin pills, and some quality multivitamin, coz the colon inflamination dont let these nutrients to get absorbed, and the injured colon bacteria cannot do its job in this state. Lack of these nutrients makes the under-energised state of the body and mind.
Pick some colon bacteria recover pills too.
I tell these from personal experiences, i had mild IBS from young age from gluten, that the medicals cant identified, so they told its probably psyhosomatic mental problem, its means they dont know the cause. After many hard years i heard about this gluten intolerancy, i tried a diet with a wide home-made colons cleanse therapy, and its mostly worked.
Get well.
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