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4 years ago
Copy and pasting what I wrote on my journal over on DA:
I've been on an unexpected hiatus and I do not know when I'll be able to bounce back and work on art. I've been under a lot of stress the past few months and I haven't been able to work on commissions.
Good news is my sister's cancer is gone, the hysterectomy was a success. I was anxious that it may have spread too much, but they were able to get rid of it.
I mentioned in my last journal that I lost my bearded dragon Acey...I didn't follow with an update, but the following week or so after, my 22 year old cockatiel Tootsie died.
Then after that, our yellow lab Dinkie started to not eat, drink, and became extremely lethargic, skinny and collapsed outside. We went to a few vets trying to figure out what was wrong with Dinkie, and eventually we went to the emergency vet as a last resort and they told us he would have died from dehydration if we didn't take him that night. And the previous vet wouldn't have given us his ""same day"" blood work until the following Monday (we took him there on Friday, all they did was clean his ears and didn't address what we originally took him in for). After about a week and $7k of vet bills, we found out he has Addison Disease. While we were taking Dinkie in, we ended up having to put to one of our old dogs to sleep. It just hasn't been a good few months, and being back to work full time has me very stressed and I'm still readjusting. I'm hoping I bounce back in July around my vacation time, but I don't know for sure if I will, so in the meantime I will be asking commissioners if they would like to cancel their commission or wait. I just don't know how long it'll be until I can properly art again. I have some doodles I can post that I had done a few months ago (Impractical batch WIP), but they're not much.
Regarding work, we've been short-staffed and burning out really quick. Hoping that changes soon. Avenger's Campus just opened up, so the chaos has been real xD
I hope everyone is doing well <3
I've been on an unexpected hiatus and I do not know when I'll be able to bounce back and work on art. I've been under a lot of stress the past few months and I haven't been able to work on commissions.
Good news is my sister's cancer is gone, the hysterectomy was a success. I was anxious that it may have spread too much, but they were able to get rid of it.
I mentioned in my last journal that I lost my bearded dragon Acey...I didn't follow with an update, but the following week or so after, my 22 year old cockatiel Tootsie died.
Then after that, our yellow lab Dinkie started to not eat, drink, and became extremely lethargic, skinny and collapsed outside. We went to a few vets trying to figure out what was wrong with Dinkie, and eventually we went to the emergency vet as a last resort and they told us he would have died from dehydration if we didn't take him that night. And the previous vet wouldn't have given us his ""same day"" blood work until the following Monday (we took him there on Friday, all they did was clean his ears and didn't address what we originally took him in for). After about a week and $7k of vet bills, we found out he has Addison Disease. While we were taking Dinkie in, we ended up having to put to one of our old dogs to sleep. It just hasn't been a good few months, and being back to work full time has me very stressed and I'm still readjusting. I'm hoping I bounce back in July around my vacation time, but I don't know for sure if I will, so in the meantime I will be asking commissioners if they would like to cancel their commission or wait. I just don't know how long it'll be until I can properly art again. I have some doodles I can post that I had done a few months ago (Impractical batch WIP), but they're not much.
Regarding work, we've been short-staffed and burning out really quick. Hoping that changes soon. Avenger's Campus just opened up, so the chaos has been real xD
I hope everyone is doing well <3
I'm so sorry to hear it all happened right after another :c
Best of luck with your work. Hopefully they get staffed enough that it doesn't start affecting you too negatively.
A silver lining though is at least the cancer part was dealt with :O
Stay stronnng
I hope you’re able to get a good vacation in soon! <3 and hopefully recover from all those loses. It’s never easy, and I can’t imagine losing so many so fast *HUG*
And geez, work needs to chill out. I kinda hope you can find somewhere else to work soon. Disney doesn’t seem to be doing you good x.x
That's a lot of vet bills... Will you be able to manage all that...?
I really hope things get better for you. I know how hard it is to lose a pet, I can't even imagine losing so many in so short of a time, my deepest condolences. I do hope Dinkie will be okay. :'(