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2 years ago
Hey everyone. This journal will obviously be a bit different. I try to keep personal stuff out of the public eye of course, and only during my worst falls into depression did I decide to call it out, which was embarrassing and sad since so many folks related to my mood rather than tried to get me out of it. That in itself helped anyway though, because I knew those that related in that way cared, and needed just as much help as me. And I hope to all of you, that you're hanging in there, and won't give up.
That being said, not for my sake but for my mom, I'm opening up about it here to sort of.. step myself up and do everything I can bring her back from a scary time. My mom was diagnosed with a stage 4 tumor behind her nose in 2021. It's been a long and difficult battle since as you can imagine, she's so far survived after having chemo and radiation, she's been through a lot. Seeing this happen, a lot of you know what that's like, going through it yourself even. She's in her 60s, and while she's still here(and I do thank God for that), at this point she's struggling to keep her weight up. In fact she's below 100 pounds now and this is the most scared we've been throughout it all.
We're focusing on giving her more fatty things like Yogurt, dairy in general, but it'll be a constant struggle. Either way, I'm committed to helping her through it and bringing her back from a dangerous place. I'm not here asking for help financially, although that in itself could be its own journal, which to this day, despite
telling me to talk about, I just can't for my own reasons. No, this is me opening up about what's going on in my life a bit, and the struggles I'm trying to process and I know I owe a couple of comms to some folks, I also work on CoA and try to update that, but it's all hard.
If anyone has been through this, whether personally suffered from Cancer or seen their family suffer from it, any advice on how to gain weight would be appreciated. I've of course been googling this and doing that kind of research but nothing beats first hand experience, although if its painful to talk about please don't worry about it.
and while I'm not here to talk about financial stuff I do have a patreon if anyone would like to support my work on CoA or art in general.
That being said, not for my sake but for my mom, I'm opening up about it here to sort of.. step myself up and do everything I can bring her back from a scary time. My mom was diagnosed with a stage 4 tumor behind her nose in 2021. It's been a long and difficult battle since as you can imagine, she's so far survived after having chemo and radiation, she's been through a lot. Seeing this happen, a lot of you know what that's like, going through it yourself even. She's in her 60s, and while she's still here(and I do thank God for that), at this point she's struggling to keep her weight up. In fact she's below 100 pounds now and this is the most scared we've been throughout it all.
We're focusing on giving her more fatty things like Yogurt, dairy in general, but it'll be a constant struggle. Either way, I'm committed to helping her through it and bringing her back from a dangerous place. I'm not here asking for help financially, although that in itself could be its own journal, which to this day, despite
telling me to talk about, I just can't for my own reasons. No, this is me opening up about what's going on in my life a bit, and the struggles I'm trying to process and I know I owe a couple of comms to some folks, I also work on CoA and try to update that, but it's all hard.If anyone has been through this, whether personally suffered from Cancer or seen their family suffer from it, any advice on how to gain weight would be appreciated. I've of course been googling this and doing that kind of research but nothing beats first hand experience, although if its painful to talk about please don't worry about it.
and while I'm not here to talk about financial stuff I do have a patreon if anyone would like to support my work on CoA or art in general.
Also advice how to gain weight would be a lot of carbs, like pasta + rice and bread, and thick soups. I hope that can help a tiny bit at least.
I'm really sorry to hear about your mom. I never dealt with something like this so I don't have much advice. I hope she starts feeling better.