Cause there's one going on right now! Go check it out!

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/3312309/

Just promoting a contest that  familiarsaint is having. The contest is about who would be best for a mate/lover for one of Familiars character's.
And the chosen person will have his or her character drawn with Familar's character for free! Here's the journal: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/3268218/

If you would like to have your character in a free sketch with a single one of  RoyalxCoon 's charaters( which he provides a list of in his journal), then head on over to his journal here: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/3257766/

Hey guys! I'm just popping on real quick, seeing as I'm waiting for my next class to start.

I just wanted to tell you guys that  marathesouleater has 6 COMMISSION SLOTS available! Each is only $7! So, if you are looking to get a cheap commission from a talented artist, talk to Mara. She's a great artist! Oh, if you are looking to ask her for a commission, just know that she's only using Snailmail at the moment. She doesn't use PayPal. So, if you have Snailmail, and looking to get a commission, go talk to Mara! Again, she has 6 COMMISSION SLOTS available and each is only $7!

Alright, that's all I have time to say for now. Later guys! ^^

Wow, I've been coming on here for a month and a half...and I just realized that I have over 1600 submissions to go through and favorite...wow...

Okay, so, Dani finally woke up from her coma two days ago. She's been in the coma since November 21st. You're all probably wondering if she's okay. She's perfectly intact. She remembers everyone in her life and everything...though, she doesn't remember ANYTHING from the last month or two BEFORE her accident. She just...doesn't have any memories of that period of time. The docs aren't surprised that she's lost at least SOME of her memories, since that's true for most cases of long-term coma's. But the important thing is is that she's ALL still there.
So, the docs called her parents yesterday to tell them the good news. Her dad's coming down from Buffalo, New York. Dani's going to be released from the hospital tomorrow. Her dad's going to spend a few days with Dani, make sure she's going to be alright by herself.
My flu still hasn't gone away, but the docs say that it's subsided a bit enough that I'm not contagious anymore. So, come Monday, after a month and a half of being in the hospital, I'm leaving it...with...one less kidney. I've missed...about two weeks worth of classes...first time, in...3 or 4 years that I've missed any class. First time ever was my freshman year of college when I got...lost on the campus...yeah...but it was just one class that I missed. That's about it. BUT TWO WEEKS OF CLASSES!!! Man, this won't look good on my academic record. Oh well. But Monday I can start my classes again. Yay! I've missed the classroom so. But I still won't be able to work again until my flu has completely gone, so I probably won't be back to work until next week. Oh well. But above all that, I'm going to be spending a lot more time with Dani. So, don't be surprised if I'm not very active for the next few months. Who knows, maybe I'll be active sometimes. Who knows.

But the important thing of all this, is that Dani is FINALLY awake. ^^

Dani just woke up! Holy shit! She woke up!!!...and SHE REMEMBERS ME!!! HOLY SHIT!!! BRB, gotta talk with her.

So, many of you may have noticed that my activity has returned somewhat to normal. I haven't been keeping up with my submissions messages since I get admitted to the hospital because...I really just can't find the energy to look at art for the time being. I don't know if it's the fact that I'm in the hospital that's affecting me or what. But I promise, once my life has returned to normal, and Dani has come out of the coma, I will try to keep up with all of the submissions and journals. But I can't guarantee that I will. I gotta keep my promise to my boss that I'll be working double double time once I'm out of the hospital since I've been gone...almost a year...well, I guess the last two months before all this shit went down kinda nulls that, since after I got out of my cast, I went straight to work.

As of now, I'm officially a week and a half late for my classes. But my professors(all of whom I had last semester, ironically) understand my situation, just like my boss at my job. Hopefully, I'll be out of the hospital as soon as this damn flu goes away, cause I kinda miss the classroom environment.

And as for a status report on Dani...she's still in a coma. Man, I hope she'll wake up soon.

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Welp, my family left Boston last week...and now, they're skiing in Idaho. They left me behind on the annual family skiing trip. I r sadface. But still happeh!

So, after celebrating Christmas Eve with my family and Christmas with Dani's family...while in my hospital bed, the docs felt it necessary that they needed to perform surgery to remove my dying kidney the next day. After the surgery, I got an infection, not a life-threatening infection, but an infection bad enough to overwhelm my immune system. Overwhelm it so much so that I was close to actually...on the brink; actually started seeing a white light, no joke. So, docs put me in a medical induced coma. Been in a coma since the day after Christmas, until about...4 hours ago.

So no more infection! Yay! ^^ But man, I feel like I've slept for a year, yet I still feel like I can sleep for another year. Actually, feel like I can fall asleep right now. But besides that, I woke up just in time for New Years Eve. W00t! So, celebrating New Years here in the hospital with my family and Dani's family again.

As for my liver, luckily that's gotten better than it was a week ago. So, I'm keepin' mah livah! No one needs to donate theirs to save my life! ^^

For those of you wondering, unfortunately Dani is still in a coma. She should wake up any day now. So cross your fingers and pray for her recovery everyone! I just wish that she will wake up today. This'll be the first New Years that she missed spending time with her family if she doesn't wake up today. So pray for her!

So, when am I and Dani gettin' out of the hospital?...I have no clue. I just hope it's soon, cause I want to spend lots of private time with Dani again...and I really want to get back to my job. I miss working. But, I can't stay negative, so I'mma gonna hope for the best!

Oh yeah, and have a Happy New Years everyone! ^^ I pray everyone had a wonderful Christmas and got what try wished for! ^^

So...I haven't slept...the equivalent of a week's worth of sleep in...almost a month now...and I think that's basically reset my internal clock. Because now I can hardly even fall asleep, period. Even if I do fall asleep, I hardly stay asleep for more than 3 hours.

And that's not the real bad new's. The bad news is that yesterday the docs broke the news to me that my liver is failing, and one of my kidney's is dying. The reason for all of this happening, the docs have yet to find out. Doc's said that my kidney is going to have to be removed by the end of this week. They also said that my I'm going to have to start getting back into the habit of eating normally and drinking fluids on a regular basis to revive my liver. Oh yeah, the only good news about this is that I don't have permanent Cardiac Arrythmia, so that's a plus! ^^

With all of this bad news, I couldn't keep my family in the dark about my situation any longer. So, today I called up my parents, told them the story. And in two days, my whole family is going to be here, and so is Dani's family. Don't know what I'm going to do for Christmas...as I haven't even done any Christmas shopping or anything. Heck, don't know if I'll even be out of this bed to even celebrate Christmas with my family.

Man, when I said that there was a lot of bad news flying around everywhere this year, I didn't know that I would be part of that bad news. But hey, look at the bright side. At least I'm still alive and breathing! ^^

Just popped back on to update everyone.

EDIT: Oh yeah, one more thing. Docs did a really quick brain scan and catscan of Dani's brain and skull last week. They said that the injury to her head has healed properly, and there's no damage to her skull. As for he brain, they said that her brain activity has returned nearly to normal. Meaning that she's still in a coma, but her brain activity has almost returned to the point where she'll wake up any day now. ^^ I'm so happy! Now, we just gotta pray that she'll wake up before Christmas! Last month today was when she had the accident, and she's been in a coma that long. Let's just pray it won't be any longer.

So, it's been...like what...2 days or something after I went into Cardiac Arrest during my sleep. The docs told me after they told me what happened that the side effects of the Cardiac Arrest should go away after about 12 hours or so...it's already Saturday...and my chest is still fuckin' killing me everytime I take in deep breaths, and it feels like someone's putting a red hot branding iron on my heart everytime I yawn...feels like I'm dying everytime I yawn, is what I'm trying to say. Not only that, but I get really dizzy whenever I turn my head really fast. You know that feeling you get after you get of a tilt a whirl? One of these things: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mt5VwR4sa.....lt-a-whirl.jpg And you turn your head in one direction, it feels like your entire body is moving in that direction or the opposite direction? Yeah, that's what it feels like. Plus, it feels like my heart grew twice as big as it was before, cause I literally can feel it like, pumping against the inside of my chest, even see my chest buldging with each beat.
Told the doc who's takin' care of me this morning, and he said that it's not usual for patients to experience severe chest pains a couple days after going into Cardiac Arrest. He said there are some cases, but the chest pains usually pass after the third day. But he said just to be on the safe side, he'd do some tests and things. So he listened to my heart, checked this and that with blood pressure and all that, did all this stuff with electrodiagram whatever and all those other monitor stuff...
Turns out that I have an irregular hear beat, or Heart Arrhythmia. And according to the doc, it's a bit rare for patients to get Heart Arrhythmia after going into Cardiac Arrest...so, I gotta take all these drugs and things to get my heart beat rhythm back to normal, and stabilize it. Man, getting this whole Cardiac Arrest thing from my dad's side of the family sucks. But you know, that just makes me special. Why? Because I'm the youngest one in my family to go into Cardiac Arrest at age 20. New family record for the win! And you know what else? It's a good thing that I'm in good health, and have my mom's genes, because without her low blood pressure, I wouldn't have put up that journal yesterday, or even be typing this journal today. I would be on the autopsy table right now, or even in the freezer in the morgue. So, genes for the win! ^^
Why am I being so optimistic about this whole heart problem thing? Because I hate being a downer. I hate talking about such depressing things and making other people depressed and sad for me when they hear about my situation. I just don't like being that guy that's always...negative and depressing in nature. That's why I have an optimistic nature. I always take things with a smile, whether it be a sad thing, or a bad situation. That's why, I can't even tolerate negative thoughts or feelings. Cause I just wouldn't feel like a human being if I ever had a negative thought or feeling.
Anyways, just popped in again real quick to tell you guys about my situation. I'm probably not going to be active for a while, at least not until after the holidays, or until after Dani wakes up from the coma.
And you know what this whole coma thing has got me wondering? How does the human body survive so long without food in a coma? Yeah, the whole IV thing is a good substitute, but that's like, the minimal amount of nurishment the body really needs. Also...how do you go to the bathroom while in a coma? :/

So, yesterday, fell asleep...around 12:30am...wait...that was this morning...holy crap, I'm a day behind myself. Anyway, fell asleep...didn't wake up until about 3 hours ago...with pretty bad chest pains, or rather heart pains. According to the docs, I went into cardiac arrest at around 1pm today as a result of all the coffee that I've consumed over the past 2 or 3 weeks now...but I'm not stupid. I know that drinking too much coffee DOES NOT, in fact CAN'T cause cardiac arrest. It's impossible. The truth is, my dad's side of the family is famous for having cardiac arrests(my dad went into cardiac arrest 4 times in his life already). So, it's not the coffee, I know that much, but this is my first cardiac arrest. Ouch, hurts to take deep breaths and sigh. Anyway, yeah I went into cardiac arrest today. Docs say that my heart stopped beating for like...shit, I think he said 5 minutes. My great grandfather holds the family record for the longest time without a heart beat; 17.3 minutes. It stopped beating, everyone thought he was dead, and then it just started beating again. So, back to drinking my coffee.
Oh, and Dani still hasn't woken up from her coma yet. Docs still have no idea when she'll wake up. Hope it's before the holidays.
Just thought I'd pop on really quick to update you guys on Dani's and mine health conditions. I'm going downhill, pretty much, but still feel fine. Dani's still stable.
Gotta go, nurses don't like it when I use my iPhone. Also, thinking that after all this shit that's been happening lately clears up and goes away, I'm going to take a much needed break from FA. I'll still occassionally come on just to fav and delete journals, but that's about it.
Later guys.

Dani's still in a coma, still don't know when she'll wake up. :( As for me, I've been put in the bed next to hers after the docs found me collapsed in the middle of the hallway last weekend. I guess it's because I didn't sleep for more than 12 hours the whole of the week before last weekend...at least that's what I think, cause I hardly remember falling asleep at all that week.
I don't even know if what I'm saying is coherent or not right now. I'm so friggin' tired, I wanna go to sleep, but I just can't because I don't know if Dani will wake up while I'm sleeping or not. What if she does wake up while I'm sleeping? How is she going to talk to me if I'm asleep? So, I've been drinking coffee nonstop for the past 2 weeks...I think I just finished my 200th cup like 5 minutes ago...and the docs say I need to stop, or I'll make myself even more sick than I already am. But I don't care what they say. I just want Dani to wake up, and if I'm going to be awake to see her wake up, then I'm gonna keep drinkin' my coffee.
If you're wondering how many hours of sleep have I've gotten in the past two weeks...I'm going to guess probably less than 36 hours...for the whole last two weeks. Not even joking.

Well, this happened about a week ago. Took me all Thanksgiving vacation to finally get over the emotional shock of it all, and I just mustered the energy to tell you guys about it. Last week, on Sunday before Thanksgiving, my gf Dani(she's the one that's been usin' my account for about a month or so now), got into a pretty bad car accident while she was driving home from work. Some drunk bastard swerved into her lane and collided with her head-on. She was only going about 35 mph, as she was slowing for traffic up ahead, and he was going about 65 on a 40 mph main road. It was a pretty bad accident, yes, but thankfully not a tragic one. Thankfully for Dani, she didn't suffer any severe injuries, and doctors say she'll make a full recovery...once she wakes up from her coma. When paramedics got to her, Dani was in a coma by the time they got her out of her car. She's been in the hospital since then, and doctors aren't sure when she'll wake up from her coma. She only briefly, and I mean BRIEFLY woke up earlier today. And I was there when she woke up. She asked me one question, and told me one thing she saw...and then fell back into the coma again. What she asked and said, I will not say as it is a private matter. Who knows how long it'll be before she wakes up and I get to talk to her again.

So please, keep Dani in your thoughts and prayers for me and her family members and friends. Pray for her to wake up from the coma soon and for her speedy recovery. It's not just me and her friends and family that are worried about her and miss her dearly at the moment, but also every one of her students and special needs kids' she teaches. Elementary school kids, all scared that they will never see their favorite teacher ever again. So again, please pray for her speedy recovery and for her to wake up soon.

Thanks.
Jeff

Hey everyone! This is Dani, Gabit's gf. I'm jumping on real fast to give you guys just a quick update. Since Gabit's been out of his leg cast for two or three weeks now, his boss has been making him work overtime at the restaurant, since he missed practically half the year because of his broken leg. I'm not sure when he'll be able to finally jump on here, but don't expect it to be anytime soon. He's basically working from 2pm - 11:30pm prettymuch every day except Sunday. So, I'll be managing this account until he gets back. Just thought I'd let you guys know!

Hey everyone! This is Gabit's gf, Dani writing to you. I'm writing to you guys to ask that you give some love to  muffle. She recently has fallen very ill, and has been in the hospital since this past weekend. Go and tell her to get well soon! Show her the love that young aspiring artists' like her deserve from a community as caring for one another as the furry fandom! Wish her well, and keep her in your prayers until she fully recovers! She really needs the love!

~Dani :)

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So, I just got off the phone with one of my cousins down in the Newark area in New Jersey...there's about half a friggin' foot of snow on the ground over there...and she's without power atm. Wtf? Winter much? I mean, I watched the weather report this morning, they said that it was suppoed to be cold and rainy with a slight chance of snow, but I didn't believe them. The damn seasons are confused, especially winter. It doesn't know that it's supposed to start TWO MONTHS from now...not today!

Here's a report I found: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011.....79S1VP20111029

...I think I'm going to be taking a break for a little bit...meaning a break from FA...reason is that I learned on Friday that one of my favorite teachers from middle school passed away on Wednesday during the night. She just...didn't wake up the next morning...and then, on Saturday, two of my childhood friends' are hospitalized in coma's after a near fatal accident with a drunk driver back in my home state of Kansas, which resulted in a 7 car pile-up.

I just need to take a break to decompress from all of this. I've just been hearing a lot of bad news over the passed week now, both here on FA, and RL. It's been...a real emotional week for me. Don't think I've been this emotional since I lost my 6 year old sister to a stray bullet 10 years ago. I need to just...rest for a while, pull myself back together. And I'm flying back over to Kansas to visit my friends' parents, as they're taking the coma's worse than I am. One friend is stable, but still in a coma(docs say he should wake up sometime later this week), the other is...uncertain. The docs say he suffered the worst of the impact, as the drunk hit the passenger side, and that's where he was sitting. They're pretty sure that he sustained some severe brain-damage, and not sure how long he'll be in a coma for.

For those of you who are already dealing with bad news of your own, sorry to put a damper on your mood. Don't let my personal life bother with your personal life. Just know that I'm going to be taking a break for a week or maybe more. So, see you later guys...

"Friends & family of Athus Nadorian aka Brian Dyer

On Tuesday the 11th of October 2011, Athus was involved in a severe car collision that ended his time here with us. The 29 years of his life were filled with amazing stories, incredible adventures and outstanding creativity and talent. He shared his love of life, affection for others and sense of humor with many wonderful people. In memory of Athus and his special life, his closest kin have created a website for others to share their experiences with Athus as well as share photos and artwork. An email address has been established to send your wishes in to be posted on the site athus@athusnadorian.com. Thank you for your kind words, love and support through all of this. Remember to love life, hold your friends close and have a little fun - Athus wouldn't have wanted it any other way.

Please visit the site we have established www.athusnadorian.com and use the email address athus[at]athusnadorian.com to share your wishes to allow time for his closest kin to mourn peacefully.

-Friends and Family"

For any of you who knew him, I'm sorry about the bad news. But I know how you all feel. Even though I didn't know him, this hits close to home for me. So I know what it is to lose someone close to you, and you all have my condolences.

For everyone else, spread the word if you feel the need to.

This is a very sad day. :(