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Another Cancer update and about my queue
3 years ago
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I decided to make this journal to clarify better the situation about my work schedule and rhythm, so I can pin it to my frontpage and have this information available to all my commissioners.
As I've said in a couple of journals in the past, my mother has cancer, peritoneal cancer in stage 4 to be exact and has now made metastasis on several other organs, including her spine. Because of that she can't and shouldn't work. She's been a single mother for a very long time and due to this situation the whole financial burden from paying rent, to buying food and paying bills has fallen into me and my 19 years old sibling.
My sibling is a highschool dropout, so the jobs they can get are very low pay. (Just around 150 usd a month) What makes me responsible for most of the house income.
Thankfully, due to health social security in my country we don't have to pay for the chemotherapy for my mother (which would be around 5000usd if for any reason the chemo treatment isn't available...which has happened before), but all of her medicine for the pain we have to buy from our pockets, her drugs can cost us about 400 to 700usd monthly alone depending on the disponibility of some medicines on drugstores in our state.
On top of that, as I'm the one who can work from home and we obviously don't have the money to pay for a nurse, I have to take care of my mother, clean and cook. Which leaves me just a couple hours a day to actually work on commissions.
I know that my current work rhythm is painfully slow, that my queue barely moves some weeks and still, I keep putting up YCHs like crazy. Trust me, it's not because I have forgotten about your commission, or because I'm too lazy or I'm hoarding money to run away with it, as some people have suggested on some notes I've been getting recently.
I'm literally spending more than I'm able to produce workwise per month. I'm sincere with all my commissioners and add very clearly on my paypal invoices how long the wait time in my queue is for their pieces.
When my Mom has bad days or weeks, specially after her chemotherapy, I maybe sleep 5 hours a day or less, don't even say about having time to work at all, whenever I have time is because she's having a good day or because she can sleep for 8 hours straight. That's when I can step up to work and I do it non-stop for as long as my body allows me to, sometimes that's one time a week, sometimes it's four times a week. But it's only on those small chances that I can fully work, if not I barelly work on commissions one or two hours a day, when I can work at all.
Please, PLEASE, if you don't agree to wait as much for a commission it's perfectly fine! You don't have to commission me or pay for that YCH. I'm clear with all the clients about the expected lapse of time to get to your commission due to all this situation. So I beg you, don't just suddenly ask for a refund or put a claim on paypal for your money because I "took 2 weeks'' on delivering your commission, most of the time it's just leaving my paypal on red numbers because I'm spending the money on our family necessities as soon as it arrives to paypal.
I've been a furry artist since I'm 20, this have been my full time job, joy and passion for 7 YEARS, I'm not trying to scam you because I took a little more than you are expected to get your commissions, trust me, the circumstances around me and my family are just bigger of what I can control, and this job that I love with all my heart is the only way I can stay close to my mom and provide the amount of money we need to survive month by month. I need to keep up posting YCHs and offering commissions to keep us a float as a family.
I try to work as fast as my duties and body let me and truly do my best to deliver my commissions on the timelapse I give, but that timelapse is not a guarantee, and trust me that I always feel ashamed and anxious that I can't deliver on the timeframe I give to clients.
Sadly and probably this inconvenience with my queue will continue until I can get myself on track with the rhythm risking my health by taking those couple hours of sleep I can get a day, or when my Mom dies of her cancer, which, despite the inconveniences at work, I hope doesn't happen anytime soon. The kind one she has can't be cured, neither with chemotherapy or a surgery. The chemos only buy her a little more time. All of our efforts go to simply try to be with her just a little longer.
Every penny that a client give me helps me to keep my mom alive and with as little pain is posible, to have my family fed and with a roof over our heads. And truly I thank you for each commission bought since the bottom of my heart.
I beg you to be patient with me despite everything.
As I've said in a couple of journals in the past, my mother has cancer, peritoneal cancer in stage 4 to be exact and has now made metastasis on several other organs, including her spine. Because of that she can't and shouldn't work. She's been a single mother for a very long time and due to this situation the whole financial burden from paying rent, to buying food and paying bills has fallen into me and my 19 years old sibling.
My sibling is a highschool dropout, so the jobs they can get are very low pay. (Just around 150 usd a month) What makes me responsible for most of the house income.
Thankfully, due to health social security in my country we don't have to pay for the chemotherapy for my mother (which would be around 5000usd if for any reason the chemo treatment isn't available...which has happened before), but all of her medicine for the pain we have to buy from our pockets, her drugs can cost us about 400 to 700usd monthly alone depending on the disponibility of some medicines on drugstores in our state.
On top of that, as I'm the one who can work from home and we obviously don't have the money to pay for a nurse, I have to take care of my mother, clean and cook. Which leaves me just a couple hours a day to actually work on commissions.
I know that my current work rhythm is painfully slow, that my queue barely moves some weeks and still, I keep putting up YCHs like crazy. Trust me, it's not because I have forgotten about your commission, or because I'm too lazy or I'm hoarding money to run away with it, as some people have suggested on some notes I've been getting recently.
I'm literally spending more than I'm able to produce workwise per month. I'm sincere with all my commissioners and add very clearly on my paypal invoices how long the wait time in my queue is for their pieces.
When my Mom has bad days or weeks, specially after her chemotherapy, I maybe sleep 5 hours a day or less, don't even say about having time to work at all, whenever I have time is because she's having a good day or because she can sleep for 8 hours straight. That's when I can step up to work and I do it non-stop for as long as my body allows me to, sometimes that's one time a week, sometimes it's four times a week. But it's only on those small chances that I can fully work, if not I barelly work on commissions one or two hours a day, when I can work at all.
Please, PLEASE, if you don't agree to wait as much for a commission it's perfectly fine! You don't have to commission me or pay for that YCH. I'm clear with all the clients about the expected lapse of time to get to your commission due to all this situation. So I beg you, don't just suddenly ask for a refund or put a claim on paypal for your money because I "took 2 weeks'' on delivering your commission, most of the time it's just leaving my paypal on red numbers because I'm spending the money on our family necessities as soon as it arrives to paypal.
I've been a furry artist since I'm 20, this have been my full time job, joy and passion for 7 YEARS, I'm not trying to scam you because I took a little more than you are expected to get your commissions, trust me, the circumstances around me and my family are just bigger of what I can control, and this job that I love with all my heart is the only way I can stay close to my mom and provide the amount of money we need to survive month by month. I need to keep up posting YCHs and offering commissions to keep us a float as a family.
I try to work as fast as my duties and body let me and truly do my best to deliver my commissions on the timelapse I give, but that timelapse is not a guarantee, and trust me that I always feel ashamed and anxious that I can't deliver on the timeframe I give to clients.
Sadly and probably this inconvenience with my queue will continue until I can get myself on track with the rhythm risking my health by taking those couple hours of sleep I can get a day, or when my Mom dies of her cancer, which, despite the inconveniences at work, I hope doesn't happen anytime soon. The kind one she has can't be cured, neither with chemotherapy or a surgery. The chemos only buy her a little more time. All of our efforts go to simply try to be with her just a little longer.
Every penny that a client give me helps me to keep my mom alive and with as little pain is posible, to have my family fed and with a roof over our heads. And truly I thank you for each commission bought since the bottom of my heart.
I beg you to be patient with me despite everything.
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And to you, Yuneechan and your sibling and mother, I wish you strength. I know you don't know me from hole in the wall, but I've been through much of what you did for five years until April 2019. If you need a space to vent to someone who can relate and who can listen, or you just want to chat, or even if you need a little advice, I'm right here. Don't hesitate to contact me if you'd like. Please take care.
Thank you ;v;