FA+
Shop
Superfree Sunday Stream!
Posted 5 years agoRead my RULES https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....it?usp=sharing
Hop on in!♥ https://picarto.tv/Dragodraws
Short stream today, but everyone is welcome!
Hop on in!♥ https://picarto.tv/Dragodraws
Short stream today, but everyone is welcome!
Character Sales!
Posted 5 years agoPlease take a look at my babes on sale, they are all best offer. https://toyhou.se/Dragocorn/charact...../folder:357089
I also have some personal characters I'm happy to sell off, and they're in the new 'available characters' folder in my gallery, also for best offer.
I've got several things planned that require money, including a root canal when it's safe to get one and some upgrades to my reptile enclosures. Because of that, and my current plan of opening up coms slowly, I'll be focusing on selling characters and premades to make that money, and setting up a patreon at some point. Any help or advice is appreciated. Thanks so much for reading!
I also have some personal characters I'm happy to sell off, and they're in the new 'available characters' folder in my gallery, also for best offer.
I've got several things planned that require money, including a root canal when it's safe to get one and some upgrades to my reptile enclosures. Because of that, and my current plan of opening up coms slowly, I'll be focusing on selling characters and premades to make that money, and setting up a patreon at some point. Any help or advice is appreciated. Thanks so much for reading!
Superfree Sunday Stream!
Posted 5 years agoRead my RULES https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....it?usp=sharing
Hop on in!♥ https://picarto.tv/Dragodraws
Hop on in!♥ https://picarto.tv/Dragodraws
Superfree Sunday Stream!
Posted 5 years agoRead my RULES https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....it?usp=sharing
Hop on in!♥ https://picarto.tv/Dragodraws
Hop on in!♥ https://picarto.tv/Dragodraws
Superfree Sunday Stream!
Posted 5 years agoRead my RULES https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....m-3I-PMUSL_Cw/
Hop on in!♥ https://picarto.tv/Dragodraws
Hop on in!♥ https://picarto.tv/Dragodraws
Bad and Naughty Dragocorns go into the Pear Wiggler
Posted 5 years agoBad and Naughty Dragocorns go into the Pear Wiggler to atone for their Sins.
---
Live from the Pear Wiggler, hi, I'm Dragocorn. I've flaked on a ton of coms, I've not replied to a ton of people, and my burnout really hit me super hard recently. I'm doing better, but instead of doubling down right now, I'm going to take some time off for my mental health and force myself to not work. Once I'm back I'll comb through and ask folks who still want stuff for their info, and do the work for free or for tips. I'll be reorganizing my gallery, tagging things, sorting things, and doing occasional redraws. Multihead Monday, Redraw Wednesday, and SuperFree Sunday will all appear/return.
Multihead Monday: Dicephaly, multiheads, hydras, fusions, slime and transformation stuff. I won't be doing requests on this for a while as I work through my backlog of "Oh, oops. I haven't drawn X in like nearly a decade." As well as some personal characters, and some characters owned by consenting friends.
Redraw Wednesday: I redraw a character I or a consenting friend owns. May or may not be more polished or finished, but I have a ton of work to pull from! Favs and comments on old work may cause a redraw, or may not. It does put them in the running.
SuperFree Sunday: One freebie stream where anything goes, and all content is free! Well, almost. Tips are appreciated but not ever required. Only one piece can be redeemed a month, and if I find you've bypassed that limit somehow, you will be blocked.
---
The rules of my SuperFree streams are simple: NO GIFTS. You can't take my free thing and give it to a mate/lover/partner/your pet/a giant roach. Buy them art if you want to gift them something! The second rule is, nothing exceedingly complex or very complicated. If I think you should spend money on it, I won't draw it. This includes multiple characters interacting, comics, animations, and generally anything that is more than an hour of work. If you require more than one ref, tight detail, color/shade? Don't ask. Third rule: Don't be a Dick. No emotional blackmail, passive-aggressiveness, advertising your own goods or services, linking things without asking, dumping your life problems, being an ass to anyone present myself included, or anything else I or the mods deem to be dickish. You get one warning, then a kick.
All that laid out, I'm safe (relatively) healthy, and very distressed with how things are going. I'm seeking a therapist, I'll figure it out.
---
Live from the Pear Wiggler, hi, I'm Dragocorn. I've flaked on a ton of coms, I've not replied to a ton of people, and my burnout really hit me super hard recently. I'm doing better, but instead of doubling down right now, I'm going to take some time off for my mental health and force myself to not work. Once I'm back I'll comb through and ask folks who still want stuff for their info, and do the work for free or for tips. I'll be reorganizing my gallery, tagging things, sorting things, and doing occasional redraws. Multihead Monday, Redraw Wednesday, and SuperFree Sunday will all appear/return.
Multihead Monday: Dicephaly, multiheads, hydras, fusions, slime and transformation stuff. I won't be doing requests on this for a while as I work through my backlog of "Oh, oops. I haven't drawn X in like nearly a decade." As well as some personal characters, and some characters owned by consenting friends.
Redraw Wednesday: I redraw a character I or a consenting friend owns. May or may not be more polished or finished, but I have a ton of work to pull from! Favs and comments on old work may cause a redraw, or may not. It does put them in the running.
SuperFree Sunday: One freebie stream where anything goes, and all content is free! Well, almost. Tips are appreciated but not ever required. Only one piece can be redeemed a month, and if I find you've bypassed that limit somehow, you will be blocked.
---
The rules of my SuperFree streams are simple: NO GIFTS. You can't take my free thing and give it to a mate/lover/partner/your pet/a giant roach. Buy them art if you want to gift them something! The second rule is, nothing exceedingly complex or very complicated. If I think you should spend money on it, I won't draw it. This includes multiple characters interacting, comics, animations, and generally anything that is more than an hour of work. If you require more than one ref, tight detail, color/shade? Don't ask. Third rule: Don't be a Dick. No emotional blackmail, passive-aggressiveness, advertising your own goods or services, linking things without asking, dumping your life problems, being an ass to anyone present myself included, or anything else I or the mods deem to be dickish. You get one warning, then a kick.
All that laid out, I'm safe (relatively) healthy, and very distressed with how things are going. I'm seeking a therapist, I'll figure it out.
Shitpost Stream
Posted 5 years agohttps://picarto.tv/Dragodraws All free, all stupid. Hop on in! Nothing complex or serious.
Freebie Stream!
Posted 5 years agoStreaming! Free adopt! Paintings! Free sketches! Hop on in! but don't forget to read my Rules!
Special Stream Sale! 50% off everything! Streaming now!
Posted 5 years agoSundered and Recreated
Posted 5 years agoI'm back open to doing coms; though I may limit them more or less to streams. Thank you all for your patience, I'm feeling much better and my health has improved.
I'll still be doing occasional freebie streams; but my dreams have pointed me in the right direction. My sketches will continue to be free, and I will give gifts on occasion.
I'll still be doing occasional freebie streams; but my dreams have pointed me in the right direction. My sketches will continue to be free, and I will give gifts on occasion.
Updates, Notice of Removal.
Posted 5 years agoAny and all Loli, Shota or other underaged sexual or evocative works still creeping around the back of my gallery are being removed ASAP. (I honestly forgot any existed back there until someone favorited a piece, sorry fam. It's against the rules.) I am not preserving this work, reposting it anywhere, or sharing it publically or privately. I encourage anyone who has saved these works to delete them, but can't be the internet police. This journal will be left up for reference if I find any of it reposted on other sites without my permission. This is not negotiable. Thank you all for understanding!
That said, I am re-tagging much of my work as I go through my gallery, and re-drawing a lot of my own characters. I am not redrawing any gifts, coms, or anything that doesn't explicitly belong to be or a friend I still chat with to get approval. If you are still active and have a work in my gallery that is older than seven years, please contact me about redrawing your piece. If you have been blocked or banned from service, this offer does not apply, obviously.
That said, as cringe-worthy as a lot of my original captions are, I am trying to leave as much of my work as it was to keep it archived here. If I post an update, it will be noted in the added text. That said, I may not even correct spelling, but I am sweeping through to correct and consolidate all of my tags, as well as amend untagged work. Thank you so much for reading.
That said, I am re-tagging much of my work as I go through my gallery, and re-drawing a lot of my own characters. I am not redrawing any gifts, coms, or anything that doesn't explicitly belong to be or a friend I still chat with to get approval. If you are still active and have a work in my gallery that is older than seven years, please contact me about redrawing your piece. If you have been blocked or banned from service, this offer does not apply, obviously.
That said, as cringe-worthy as a lot of my original captions are, I am trying to leave as much of my work as it was to keep it archived here. If I post an update, it will be noted in the added text. That said, I may not even correct spelling, but I am sweeping through to correct and consolidate all of my tags, as well as amend untagged work. Thank you so much for reading.
Freebie Stream
Posted 5 years agoFreebie Stream! Hop on in! and don't forget to read My Rules!
IMPORTANT UPDATE (Com Hiatus!)
Posted 5 years agoHEY GUYS SORRY I HAVEN'T REPLIED TO MMMM ANYONE ANYWHERE.
SHIT'S BEEN ABSOLUTELY FUCKING BATSHIT HERE (In the US and in my city both) AND MY DEPRESSION HAS PRETTY MUCH KNEECAPPED ME.
I'm safe but like, I'm mad I can't join the protests without risking my life, since my dumbass meat body is so fragile. What would hurt someone else would kill me, due to my surgeries.
So all my art is free. My adopts are free. My streams are free. Everything I make, sculpture, 3D, digital, traditional. It's all free. My service, the thing I can do, is art. So that's what I'm doing.
I'm not going to ask for donations. Pay for bail, pay charities to keep people fed, keep people safe. I'm lifting the rules on free adult material. My new rules are here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....it?usp=sharing
SHIT'S BEEN ABSOLUTELY FUCKING BATSHIT HERE (In the US and in my city both) AND MY DEPRESSION HAS PRETTY MUCH KNEECAPPED ME.
I'm safe but like, I'm mad I can't join the protests without risking my life, since my dumbass meat body is so fragile. What would hurt someone else would kill me, due to my surgeries.
So all my art is free. My adopts are free. My streams are free. Everything I make, sculpture, 3D, digital, traditional. It's all free. My service, the thing I can do, is art. So that's what I'm doing.
I'm not going to ask for donations. Pay for bail, pay charities to keep people fed, keep people safe. I'm lifting the rules on free adult material. My new rules are here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....it?usp=sharing
Updates!
Posted 5 years agoAfter SEVERAL non-pandemic and non-chrohns health events in a row I'm again on the mend, back to my healthy weight and doing really good overall. I'm going to try to stream more often, plus the potentially herculean task of posting everything I do and using my scraps. I also want to re-draw some of my old work on request. Just send me a note with the relevant work linked, and if I do it I will reply and update the submission with a link to the new piece. That said, I'm still going to be dipping into older work (Paid, gift and personal) to post and again attempt a daily upload schedule. Wish me luck, thank you for reading!
Delay!
Posted 6 years agoI got a nasty gecko bite right between my thumb and forefinger, and I can't even hold a pen properly.
I'll be back when I am healed, shouldn't be too long (The gecko is okay!) Until then I'm going to keep posting older stuff, but coms, gifts, and trades are all closed for the time being.
I'll be back when I am healed, shouldn't be too long (The gecko is okay!) Until then I'm going to keep posting older stuff, but coms, gifts, and trades are all closed for the time being.
Return to the Sauce (Update)
Posted 6 years agoI'll be posting a huge backlog of art I've been doing but had 0 energy to post here. I'm also very active on Deviantart now with two closed species, and most of my SFW art of those peeps will be going there. Now all posts will be tagged with Com, Tip, Personal or Gift. Whatever is most relevant. I'll be putting an effort in to do more streams, and have updated my freebie rules and other bits and bobs in my Terms Of Service including how to order from me and other such things.
Thank you all for your continued support!
Thank you all for your continued support!
Updates
Posted 6 years agoI am finally out of the hospital with all my parts on the inside. That is all.
Wishlist Coms
Posted 6 years agoSingle-slot offers (Updated when they're claimed)
Pony Bead Pack $20
Full color/shade. Two characters max. Transparent or simple BG. A 50% savings!
Maitreya Body Pack $20
Full color/shade. Two characters max. Transparent or simple BG. A 50% savings!
Inflatable Pack $20
Full color/shade. Two characters max. Transparent or simple BG. A 50% savings!
Groceries Bundle $60
Full color/shade. No character max! a simple scene or detailed BG. One time a month offer!
Roach Kit $25
Full color/shade. Two characters max. Transparent or simple BG. A 50% savings!
Waxworm Kit $10
Sketch page. No character max. Save $10!
Pony Bead Pack $20
Full color/shade. Two characters max. Transparent or simple BG. A 50% savings!
Maitreya Body Pack $20
Full color/shade. Two characters max. Transparent or simple BG. A 50% savings!
Inflatable Pack $20
Full color/shade. Two characters max. Transparent or simple BG. A 50% savings!
Groceries Bundle $60
Full color/shade. No character max! a simple scene or detailed BG. One time a month offer!
Roach Kit $25
Full color/shade. Two characters max. Transparent or simple BG. A 50% savings!
Waxworm Kit $10
Sketch page. No character max. Save $10!
Art for Donations!
Posted 6 years agohttps://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9223414/
Please help a friend out! Any donate (even a dollar) will get you a doodle from me. (Usual price is $10)
Donations of $5 or more will get simple lines and chibis!
Donations of $20 or more will get full color/shade.
Thank you for reading/sharing! All help is appreciated.
Please help a friend out! Any donate (even a dollar) will get you a doodle from me. (Usual price is $10)
Donations of $5 or more will get simple lines and chibis!
Donations of $20 or more will get full color/shade.
Thank you for reading/sharing! All help is appreciated.
Toyhouse Sale!
Posted 6 years agohttps://toyhou.se/Dragocorn
All characters, including the ones usually NFS are up for USD offers because my filling, which I could afford with ease, was actually a crown. I can ALSO afford the crown, but it's a tight squeeze, so make USD offers on any character. Free redesigns and doodles with any purchase! Anything helps, thanks for reading!
All characters, including the ones usually NFS are up for USD offers because my filling, which I could afford with ease, was actually a crown. I can ALSO afford the crown, but it's a tight squeeze, so make USD offers on any character. Free redesigns and doodles with any purchase! Anything helps, thanks for reading!
Life Update
Posted 6 years agoI've been seeing a lot of things in the art world and going "Oh man, we need more of this!"
It really makes me feel terrible because a huge part of why I pursued art for was making things that I thought needed to be drawn.
Fan-art of characters that don't get a lot of attention. Fetishes that are niche and don't get a lot of coverage. Homages to characters whose source material has gone off the rails, and now all the fandom has is independent artists. Adult work that I want to see, like female monsters with humans, more exotic female junk, and that sort of thing.
So I'll be working hard on my backlog stuff, but I'm going to try to turn over a new leaf. I'll be posting more unique stuff and things I want to draw. I'll be working on crafts I've wanted to do. I'll be using this time I'll need to recover to become a better artist. I'm also going to be posting headcanon stuff, RP characters that are free to use, monsters with stat blocks, writing in general and free flair for profiles and pages that anyone can use.
Thank all y'all for supporting me with coms, they are what allow me to afford groceries and take care of my pets.
Like what I do? Toss me a few bucks via Ko-fi, your donations combined give me what I need to live and work on art! -> https://ko-fi.com/dragocorn <-
It really makes me feel terrible because a huge part of why I pursued art for was making things that I thought needed to be drawn.
Fan-art of characters that don't get a lot of attention. Fetishes that are niche and don't get a lot of coverage. Homages to characters whose source material has gone off the rails, and now all the fandom has is independent artists. Adult work that I want to see, like female monsters with humans, more exotic female junk, and that sort of thing.
So I'll be working hard on my backlog stuff, but I'm going to try to turn over a new leaf. I'll be posting more unique stuff and things I want to draw. I'll be working on crafts I've wanted to do. I'll be using this time I'll need to recover to become a better artist. I'm also going to be posting headcanon stuff, RP characters that are free to use, monsters with stat blocks, writing in general and free flair for profiles and pages that anyone can use.
Thank all y'all for supporting me with coms, they are what allow me to afford groceries and take care of my pets.
Like what I do? Toss me a few bucks via Ko-fi, your donations combined give me what I need to live and work on art! -> https://ko-fi.com/dragocorn <-
Health Update Mach II
Posted 6 years agoTL;DR version:
*I needed surgery, got it, everything went great. I am recovering. It will be roughly 3 months or so before I am back to normal, or my new baseline normal; recovery has been hard and even though I was 100% prepared for this it still hit me like a bus. I am currently working on backlogs and personal projects only. If I owe you something you have unlimited free requests until I am back to my normal work, ALSO please comment on any non-com and non-gift work I have done ANYWHERE in my gallery if you want a piece redrawn/made.*
Long version:
So I am engaged (Long story, personal friends can hear it if they ask in PM or Note) And have been doing really well living with my SO and working on the garden this year. My SO had a flight for some training stuff and meetings in NY and I was totally gonna be fiiiine don't you fret babe I dropped them off at the airport and then headed home. Once I got home I felt like I had a mildish UTI so I took an AZO and slammed some water. My right kidney started to hurt. Now, mind I have HAD kidney pain before, from dehydration. So I hit the water even harder. I am determined to not land myself in the hospital again. Tha pain starts at a 2-3 on the 1-10 pain scale and ends up around 6 by the end of the hour. I am dying. Babe's flight touches down and I PM him telling him I am checking myself in to the hospital for kidney pain. I pack my hospital go bag, grit my teeth and drive to the ER through 6-7 pain, as carefully and sanely as I possibly can (It's also only fifteen minutes away)
I check myself in and I am SCREAMING in pain. Like 8-9 pain. I have never felt something this awful unmedicated. The police officer at the front desk looks at me like I'm faking it, possibly because I am crying but I don't shed any tears, rocking in place, shuddering a lot. I huddle in the wheelchair and try not to die. Hours pass. Literally 4-5 hours later my pain is subsiding and I can't find my phone. I flip out and get enough adrenaline to eat some of my pain. I call it a few times. I check my bag more than once. Check the bathroom. Finally, I realize I left it in the car and I stumble outside to get it out of the cupholder. This is after I called my parents to tell them I had lost my phone AND I was in the ER AND my SO was several states away on business.
Phone obtained I huddle with it for the longest while to explain to SO I'm okay and maybe bury myself in games or SOMETHING, but my pain starts to fade. I get called back and as I go I scoop up a spider off the floor into the bucket I was holding in case I barfed so he wouldn't get stepped on. He was missing a leg but OK. They put me in a bed, and at this point my pain was back down to like 2-3 range. I answer the nurse's questions and they toss me a tylenol. I get some imaging done and it's clear my suspect kidney is twice the size of my other one. The pain starts creeping back and they finally give me some morphine, tell me they're going to send me to the hospital. This is trip 6 in total in the last few years. The nurses do not like Mr. Spider. They refuse to put him outside for me.
The med team loads me up and I make polite small talk with them. They dump Mr. Spider into the bushes for me and I bid him farewell. At the hospital I am as usual poked a ton and they steal my blood a lot. They do however, let me eat. After some imagine and some conversation I get a Nephrostomy and an appointment with a reconstructive urologist in a few weeks. (Nephrostomy is a tube from the kidney to the skin of the back to allow urine to drain when a ureter is damaged or not functioning properly) So they tell me I am having this tube in for 3 weeks and then I'll probably get some reconstructive surgery and be good. Great! They fight off an infection in my blood and kidney both, and then send me home with an ass-pat and a few new appointments.
Not even a week later, I get what is probably the grossest and most upsetting symptom I have ever experienced, which I will not detail here. I immediately wake my SO up to tell him and then drive to the ER. There, I ask what to do and they tell me to just go to the hospital for trip 7. Since I wasn't in pain I drove myself to the hospital immediately and checked myself in. The ER is so much worse when you're not in pain. I didn't wait long and soon they took me back for imaging. I checked in around 3 in the morning. Everything was swift. They did several complicated tests.
However, they didn't put me in a room. Instead, they were going to send me to another hospital (Where the specialist I was going to see anyway was.) which was cool. They had me languishing in a bed the entire time. At least they gave me pain meds, but the person directly across from me, separated only by a thin fabric sheet, had a 5-7 something child who refused to be silent for a single instant, and when not playing a phone game on max volume was chattering, and a few hours in became upset and began screaming/crying nonstop. Hours of this. Hours and hours. I gifted them a book to read (Taggerung, hardly the best book but I was about to gift them cash for silence) and they returned it as time came for the mother to leave with some pain medication, sent home for her stomach trouble. As I audibly exhaled someone new with an even younger infant took her spot. Cue high-pitched wailing almost immediately. Thankfully the transport came and rescued me. I was there until around 5, and got in the hospital 2 around 6 at night. You did not misread that. It took them that long to get me a bed.
At hospital 2 everything was handled very quickly. More imaging. I'd need a stent which I already knew, but they would not know everything until they actually did my reconstructive surgery. There was worry I would need a ostomy bag for the rest of my life, literally my worst nightmare. They said restructure-but they didn't say Resection until later, and a doctor had to clarify. My SO was there so I didn't maul him, thankfully, but it wrecked me. That said, after a day to think it over, I could carry on with my life just fine. I didn't want one, obviously, but I would need one either way, to allow time for my colon to heal. Surgery day went off without a hitch, they wheeled me in early and five hours or so later wheeled me out. I don't remember anything from this day so they must have given me the good stuff.
Out of surgery my recovery was pretty hard. Throughout they had kept me unable to eat anything, understandably, but I was starving. I had a hard time keeping food or my meds down. We shuffled medications around. I was on liquid nutrition for a while (That blew. It was a deeply uncomfortable experience) And I got some bitchin' new scars that are still at this moment, healing. We figured out the food thing and I could kep things down. I've been working hard on gaining weight back and taking it easy. I am, as of now, home. But I have no plans to work until I am feeling better/off some of my serious pain medications because I just can't be reliable. It'll be 3 months or so before I get all my hardware off and am clear to resume living my baseline normal-as-I-get life.
I am going to continue working on backlogged work I've forgotten, and a limited thing NOW from my "open again" journal, if you really like something in my gallery that is NOT a commission or a gift, leave a comment on it and ask for it to be redrawn and I may redraw it. People still waiting for work have free requests until I deliver what I owe them. Aside from that I may do adoptables or sketches, maybe even streams-but I am going to take it as easy as possible and have basically no desire to push myself.
Thank you so much for reading this was my big breakdown of What the Heck Happened?? and kind of a follow-up to my last journal. I'll be posting more and move anything that isn't at least lined into my scraps when I'm feeling better. Hope y'all are having a better time than I am!
*I needed surgery, got it, everything went great. I am recovering. It will be roughly 3 months or so before I am back to normal, or my new baseline normal; recovery has been hard and even though I was 100% prepared for this it still hit me like a bus. I am currently working on backlogs and personal projects only. If I owe you something you have unlimited free requests until I am back to my normal work, ALSO please comment on any non-com and non-gift work I have done ANYWHERE in my gallery if you want a piece redrawn/made.*
Long version:
So I am engaged (Long story, personal friends can hear it if they ask in PM or Note) And have been doing really well living with my SO and working on the garden this year. My SO had a flight for some training stuff and meetings in NY and I was totally gonna be fiiiine don't you fret babe I dropped them off at the airport and then headed home. Once I got home I felt like I had a mildish UTI so I took an AZO and slammed some water. My right kidney started to hurt. Now, mind I have HAD kidney pain before, from dehydration. So I hit the water even harder. I am determined to not land myself in the hospital again. Tha pain starts at a 2-3 on the 1-10 pain scale and ends up around 6 by the end of the hour. I am dying. Babe's flight touches down and I PM him telling him I am checking myself in to the hospital for kidney pain. I pack my hospital go bag, grit my teeth and drive to the ER through 6-7 pain, as carefully and sanely as I possibly can (It's also only fifteen minutes away)
I check myself in and I am SCREAMING in pain. Like 8-9 pain. I have never felt something this awful unmedicated. The police officer at the front desk looks at me like I'm faking it, possibly because I am crying but I don't shed any tears, rocking in place, shuddering a lot. I huddle in the wheelchair and try not to die. Hours pass. Literally 4-5 hours later my pain is subsiding and I can't find my phone. I flip out and get enough adrenaline to eat some of my pain. I call it a few times. I check my bag more than once. Check the bathroom. Finally, I realize I left it in the car and I stumble outside to get it out of the cupholder. This is after I called my parents to tell them I had lost my phone AND I was in the ER AND my SO was several states away on business.
Phone obtained I huddle with it for the longest while to explain to SO I'm okay and maybe bury myself in games or SOMETHING, but my pain starts to fade. I get called back and as I go I scoop up a spider off the floor into the bucket I was holding in case I barfed so he wouldn't get stepped on. He was missing a leg but OK. They put me in a bed, and at this point my pain was back down to like 2-3 range. I answer the nurse's questions and they toss me a tylenol. I get some imaging done and it's clear my suspect kidney is twice the size of my other one. The pain starts creeping back and they finally give me some morphine, tell me they're going to send me to the hospital. This is trip 6 in total in the last few years. The nurses do not like Mr. Spider. They refuse to put him outside for me.
The med team loads me up and I make polite small talk with them. They dump Mr. Spider into the bushes for me and I bid him farewell. At the hospital I am as usual poked a ton and they steal my blood a lot. They do however, let me eat. After some imagine and some conversation I get a Nephrostomy and an appointment with a reconstructive urologist in a few weeks. (Nephrostomy is a tube from the kidney to the skin of the back to allow urine to drain when a ureter is damaged or not functioning properly) So they tell me I am having this tube in for 3 weeks and then I'll probably get some reconstructive surgery and be good. Great! They fight off an infection in my blood and kidney both, and then send me home with an ass-pat and a few new appointments.
Not even a week later, I get what is probably the grossest and most upsetting symptom I have ever experienced, which I will not detail here. I immediately wake my SO up to tell him and then drive to the ER. There, I ask what to do and they tell me to just go to the hospital for trip 7. Since I wasn't in pain I drove myself to the hospital immediately and checked myself in. The ER is so much worse when you're not in pain. I didn't wait long and soon they took me back for imaging. I checked in around 3 in the morning. Everything was swift. They did several complicated tests.
However, they didn't put me in a room. Instead, they were going to send me to another hospital (Where the specialist I was going to see anyway was.) which was cool. They had me languishing in a bed the entire time. At least they gave me pain meds, but the person directly across from me, separated only by a thin fabric sheet, had a 5-7 something child who refused to be silent for a single instant, and when not playing a phone game on max volume was chattering, and a few hours in became upset and began screaming/crying nonstop. Hours of this. Hours and hours. I gifted them a book to read (Taggerung, hardly the best book but I was about to gift them cash for silence) and they returned it as time came for the mother to leave with some pain medication, sent home for her stomach trouble. As I audibly exhaled someone new with an even younger infant took her spot. Cue high-pitched wailing almost immediately. Thankfully the transport came and rescued me. I was there until around 5, and got in the hospital 2 around 6 at night. You did not misread that. It took them that long to get me a bed.
At hospital 2 everything was handled very quickly. More imaging. I'd need a stent which I already knew, but they would not know everything until they actually did my reconstructive surgery. There was worry I would need a ostomy bag for the rest of my life, literally my worst nightmare. They said restructure-but they didn't say Resection until later, and a doctor had to clarify. My SO was there so I didn't maul him, thankfully, but it wrecked me. That said, after a day to think it over, I could carry on with my life just fine. I didn't want one, obviously, but I would need one either way, to allow time for my colon to heal. Surgery day went off without a hitch, they wheeled me in early and five hours or so later wheeled me out. I don't remember anything from this day so they must have given me the good stuff.
Out of surgery my recovery was pretty hard. Throughout they had kept me unable to eat anything, understandably, but I was starving. I had a hard time keeping food or my meds down. We shuffled medications around. I was on liquid nutrition for a while (That blew. It was a deeply uncomfortable experience) And I got some bitchin' new scars that are still at this moment, healing. We figured out the food thing and I could kep things down. I've been working hard on gaining weight back and taking it easy. I am, as of now, home. But I have no plans to work until I am feeling better/off some of my serious pain medications because I just can't be reliable. It'll be 3 months or so before I get all my hardware off and am clear to resume living my baseline normal-as-I-get life.
I am going to continue working on backlogged work I've forgotten, and a limited thing NOW from my "open again" journal, if you really like something in my gallery that is NOT a commission or a gift, leave a comment on it and ask for it to be redrawn and I may redraw it. People still waiting for work have free requests until I deliver what I owe them. Aside from that I may do adoptables or sketches, maybe even streams-but I am going to take it as easy as possible and have basically no desire to push myself.
Thank you so much for reading this was my big breakdown of What the Heck Happened?? and kind of a follow-up to my last journal. I'll be posting more and move anything that isn't at least lined into my scraps when I'm feeling better. Hope y'all are having a better time than I am!
Health Update
Posted 6 years agoI was in the hospital for a while! I'm out now, but it's really hard to work and I'll need surgery in the future, though thankfully it's not because of anything new with my chronic illness.
Price change warning!
Posted 7 years agoAs a note, my old prices will only be valid until February!
After that, I'll be increasing the base prices of my work.
After that, I'll be increasing the base prices of my work.
Overdrafted
Posted 7 years agoI forgot paypal pulls from savings despite it saying checking on the site itself, so I over drafted my account like an absolute asshat.
That said, I'm open for one painterly commission for $60 to cover bank fees. Usually, my painterlies aren't available due to being so labor-intensive, and they are normally $100.
Delivery will be in three business days and you'll have my thanks, as well as a bonus sketch page.
That said, I'm open for one painterly commission for $60 to cover bank fees. Usually, my painterlies aren't available due to being so labor-intensive, and they are normally $100.
Delivery will be in three business days and you'll have my thanks, as well as a bonus sketch page.
