☀ Sorry for the long absence! I'm back ish!!!
a year ago
HEY EVERYONE, I'm just... Wow. A lot has happened in two months. Both for myself and FA it seems, absolutely heartbreaking. Dragoneer gave me this username to use since it was a one-off abandoned account years ago and I really appreciated that so much. I'm really sad to see the news about him and I really hope his family gets all the support they need.
My own plate has also been pretty full of illness and death. Just seems to be an awful year for 2024.
Previous update post about it: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/57630792/
Otherwise.... uhhhh my timeline has pretty much been:
Early spring, my mom got diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, terminal, all that jazz. My sister moves back home to be with her during treatments. We find out late notice our rental house we live in currently is being sold to a new landlord who wants us out in june 2024. We are broke, can't do that, bargain with him for 1 year lease if he can raise the rent $500. Absolutely the worst, but we agree because we need time to recover from 2 layoffs and no savings.
June 2024, birthday month, yay fun! It was fun! Mom isn't doing great, so plan to visit at the end of june. I get a tooth infection with a crown from "stress grinding", great. I have to miss visiting my mom to go to the dentist to fix it. Tooth is still kinda a pain but I don't have time/cash to deal with it more.
Mid July, we get a call from my sister that my mom is going downhill fast. Please come visit ASAP. So I pack up my car and drive 8 hours to get there on her last day of sitting up and talking. July 25th she passes away at home hospice with my sister at her bedside. I stay an extra week to attend the funeral and support my family.
August, Day after the funeral I am finally back home. My dog is still sick after 4-6 weeks of recovery on a sprained elbow. We take him to the vet to get checked, he has cancer. The leg is withering and will not recover. We make the difficult decision to amputate to give him immediate relief. Surgery was extremely expensive and now we're going to oncologist which is also costing a lot of money.
Since we found out that we have to move homes in summer of 2025 my husband and I made the decision to try and buy a house in the town we live. So we started saving hard core to prepare ourselves for it. We have had a lump sum of savings made, but we are now using all of it to fund Junior's surgery and cancer treatments. So I'm not... really sure what to expect from the future, or how we'll get funding in time for next summer. Most likely just find another cheap rental to move to that the dogs can move around safely in? I'm not sure. My future plans have all gone to shit, I have no savings left after these next vet oncology appointments.
I can't take any more time off to manage Junior's chemo treatment, so I'll just run my patreon like normal and get rewards mailed out and commissions completed.
I'll be... just around a lot more often I guess is what I'm saying. I need to be working every single day streaming, drawing, posting, anything to make cash for junior's treatments and our 2025 move.
deep breath. I am incredibly stressed. I am going to absolutely do my best and make all of this possible no matter what. So please enjoy the show I put on as I dance for ya'll! I hope to work with you all soon in commissions or just hang out in streams. Thank you everyone for all your kind words and messages of support during these difficult times!
Want to consider supporting me? Check out these links!!!
https://www.patreon.com/CloverCoin
https://subscribestar.adult/flipside (+18)
https://ko-fi.com/clovercoin
https://clovercoin.gumroad.com/
https://clovercoin.itch.io/
https://www.twitch.tv/clovercoin
https://picarto.tv/Flipside
Adoptables for sale!!! https://toyhou.se/CloverCoin/charac.....folder:1117739
My own plate has also been pretty full of illness and death. Just seems to be an awful year for 2024.
Previous update post about it: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/57630792/
Otherwise.... uhhhh my timeline has pretty much been:
Early spring, my mom got diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, terminal, all that jazz. My sister moves back home to be with her during treatments. We find out late notice our rental house we live in currently is being sold to a new landlord who wants us out in june 2024. We are broke, can't do that, bargain with him for 1 year lease if he can raise the rent $500. Absolutely the worst, but we agree because we need time to recover from 2 layoffs and no savings.
June 2024, birthday month, yay fun! It was fun! Mom isn't doing great, so plan to visit at the end of june. I get a tooth infection with a crown from "stress grinding", great. I have to miss visiting my mom to go to the dentist to fix it. Tooth is still kinda a pain but I don't have time/cash to deal with it more.
Mid July, we get a call from my sister that my mom is going downhill fast. Please come visit ASAP. So I pack up my car and drive 8 hours to get there on her last day of sitting up and talking. July 25th she passes away at home hospice with my sister at her bedside. I stay an extra week to attend the funeral and support my family.
August, Day after the funeral I am finally back home. My dog is still sick after 4-6 weeks of recovery on a sprained elbow. We take him to the vet to get checked, he has cancer. The leg is withering and will not recover. We make the difficult decision to amputate to give him immediate relief. Surgery was extremely expensive and now we're going to oncologist which is also costing a lot of money.
Since we found out that we have to move homes in summer of 2025 my husband and I made the decision to try and buy a house in the town we live. So we started saving hard core to prepare ourselves for it. We have had a lump sum of savings made, but we are now using all of it to fund Junior's surgery and cancer treatments. So I'm not... really sure what to expect from the future, or how we'll get funding in time for next summer. Most likely just find another cheap rental to move to that the dogs can move around safely in? I'm not sure. My future plans have all gone to shit, I have no savings left after these next vet oncology appointments.
I can't take any more time off to manage Junior's chemo treatment, so I'll just run my patreon like normal and get rewards mailed out and commissions completed.
I'll be... just around a lot more often I guess is what I'm saying. I need to be working every single day streaming, drawing, posting, anything to make cash for junior's treatments and our 2025 move.
deep breath. I am incredibly stressed. I am going to absolutely do my best and make all of this possible no matter what. So please enjoy the show I put on as I dance for ya'll! I hope to work with you all soon in commissions or just hang out in streams. Thank you everyone for all your kind words and messages of support during these difficult times!
Want to consider supporting me? Check out these links!!!
https://www.patreon.com/CloverCoin
https://subscribestar.adult/flipside (+18)
https://ko-fi.com/clovercoin
https://clovercoin.gumroad.com/
https://clovercoin.itch.io/
https://www.twitch.tv/clovercoin
https://picarto.tv/Flipside
Adoptables for sale!!! https://toyhou.se/CloverCoin/charac.....folder:1117739

Salkin18
~salkin18
sorry to hear about your mom passing, that shit sucks massively to put it lightly

Flipside
~flipside
OP
Ohhhhh yeah. Thank you very much <3

PrettyPinkPony
~prettypinkpony
So sorry to hear about all you've endured... That's terrible and shame on that landlord also! Wishing you the best, you do lovely work so I know your work will sell like hot cakes! ❤️👍

Flipside
~flipside
OP
Thank you so much, I really hope so. I notice all artists/everyone everywhere is really struggling to make any sales. So I'll really have to spin the charm and make them sparkle! <3

PrettyPinkPony
~prettypinkpony
Maybe, Im not sure what to believe. I hear that, but then I see people selling adopts on Twitter for hundreds of dollars and Im just like, people out here got money you just gotta get in front of them I guess. Money is tight for me atm but if I was richer I'd buy so many designs from you. They're always so nice. I'm sure you'll do very well if people can see your stuff 👍🏼

DireWolf505
~direwolf505
Well, damn. My condolences.

Flipside
~flipside
OP
Thanks, it's been a suckfest of a summer. But I'm NOT GIVING UP.

DireWolf505
~direwolf505
Good to know!