While this is normally something that I, as a professional artist, should keep to myself, I feel the need to tell my clients, and friends whats going on and why I am currently particularly slow in regards to artwork, and any presence online.

My grandmother has been hiding from us how bad her cancer has been. In the past few days we got an alert that she went non-responsive, which was surprising considering we had a perfectly alright conversation with her two days prior to that alert. We had a family meeting with the doctors. The cancer is 14 centimeters and rapidly growing. On top of that, she has had extreme kidney problems for years now and was in fact on dialysis for that problem. And, unknown to us she has slowly been suffering from something called metastasis of the brain. At the current moment they are keeping her comfortable and trying to allow us at least a few minutes a peice every day to get some words out of her. She can go at any moment. We don't know when.

This is hard on me, she's the only one in the family who seemed to understand what was 'wrong' with me. At family gatherings when I would remain quiet or simply sit away from the others, she would either come visit me by sitting near me, saying nothing, or merely asking me how my artwork or games were doing then leaving me alone. She seemed to understand that I wasn't straight, or 'female' either, and would rebuke others when they mentioned the clothing choice that I picked.

Im just..lost. I will continue to work on artwork, but at the moment its hospital visits every day. I am in bad need of money to pay for those, so I will do my best, my extreme best, to give out quality artwork to those whom I owe it to.

Thank you for understanding.