Sorry to be taking so long to get this journal out there; so much has happened and is still happening that I can't keep track of the days!

So, for those who are interested in what's been going on, I'll start at the beginning.

February was a decent enough month; I got a lot of commissions done, and was on track for completing many more, until my eczema happened and got in the way. I had gotten a bit of meds before in the beginning of February, which helped my condition, but when they ran out, everything fell apart again, and fairly rapidly.

In March, I had a doozy of a birthday, and a great time, despite my eczema doing it's best to keep me down. Went to see the doctor, and pointed out my bad condition to them, and they ran some labs on me to see if I was in danger of getting infected with Staph like I am prone to be. Around this time, my brother's longtime friend asked him to accompany her to Indiana where she'd be picking up a new truck, and she'd need help driving it back down to California. He agreed, but that very morning that I was gonna drive them both to the airport, she called him and said she was sick; ended up puking her guts out all morning. Ironically, not 2 minutes before this phone call, I was saying how much I wanted to go with them on their cross-country road trip. So, hey! Be careful what you wish for!

During the journey, my eczema was kinda under control, but I underestimated how much of my special skin cream I had left, so I ran out halfway through the trip. I tried to get it refilled at one of the CVS's we were passing by, but my insurance decided they were gonna be an asshole and withhold any further doses of my meds until April. This trip happened the second week of March. So hey, fuck me, right? Thankfully, my skin held out long enough for a special surprise visit to one very special tigress who my brother planned to visit from the start. Had the trip not taken us literally right through her neck of the woods, he wouldn't have even said he'd do the trip. This tigress was an ex-girlfriend to my bro, and they do still care about each other, plus I knew her as well and we were pretty good friends back in the day as well. She had just gone through a pretty terrible breakup the week before, so our visit was just what the doctor ordered!

Speaking of doctors, while I was driving the one time during our roadtrip, I missed a call from my doctors office, and apparently it was something to do with infections, because I also had a text from my local CVS back in California saying I had new meds to pick up. So, after feeling the brunt of my eczema kicking my ass during the trip, when we got home, I sped off to grab the new medication. I saw a familiar antibiotic in the mess of meds I got from the pharmacy, and started taking them immediately. And that's where things got really bad.

I normally take those specific antibiotics with a steroid to suppress my immune system, but this time, I didn't have the steroid. Which was enough to trigger an allergic reaction with the meds, and give me Scalded Skin Syndrome, which apparently was life-threatening, and caused all my skin to fall off. VERY PAINFUL.

So, I was then taken to an internal medicine doctor whom I had already made an appointment with, and she just shipped me to the hospital immediately after seeing me. And there I stayed for a week.

After the week, I had never felt better! But goddamn, was it boring in there. Decent food, but no one really to talk to except a few friends online with the laptop my roommates so generously let me borrow. Basically got cabin fever in there, but when I was released, I was at 100%! To put that into perspective, my skin normally sits at 50% integrity, and that dictates my total ability. So up until that point, my default setting has been "half-ass".

With April now firmly in my sights, I was at 100% and ready to do ALL THE THINGS, and so I've been doing ALL THE THINGS. Mostly, my work in the San Diego Furries, helping around the house, running errands for myself and my brother, and it's all just been non-stop since then. I've also been doing a ton PS4 video gaming as well, which has been sorta taking up all my free time, because Bloodborne and FFXV are addicting.

Now that May has been kicked off with me still doing all the things, and June is coming up, I've been preparing for BLFC! Still so many things to get ready for, so many things to get prepared. So, apologies to people waiting on commissions. I do fully plan on completing the ones who have already paid me, but things are pretty hectic right now. I'll do what I can to finish them off, so please be patient!

Sincerely
~Fenrisulfr