I am doing at least (aiming higher than) 31 minutes a day of exercise every day in January 2024. I am taking part in the Big Winter Workout for Crohn's and Colitis UK (of which should benefit shared knowledge internationally)
This is the link to my personal fundraiser, it should track my progress as I go. My boyfriend will be joining me on this journey.
https://socialsync.app/fundraiser/cr-lz317896wd37?currentTab=fundraising
I was diagnosed in March after months of excruciating abdominal pain and being sent home from the Emergency Department with doctors blaming it on indigestion. Only after I pushed for an investigation (through my GP) a CT scan came back with Crohn's of the Terminal Ileum, and I was hospitalised for a week. I had dropped nearly 15kg (33 lbs) as eating would cause me pain hours after.
I am on immunesuppressants and infliximab biologic infusions, given via IV over an hour, of which I have these every 6 weeks
I'll admit that I didn't know anything about IBD until a nurse visited me at 11pm to try to prepare me for the news. I learnt that it wasn't self inflicted like I thought. And wasn't all about living on the toilet, as my particular case didn't show it, another reason why doctors dismissed me
EDIT: Back in business, you just need to thank my boyfriend, who hyped me up so much that I'm attampting to make plushies of my charcters
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After gaining confidence and showing my art/writing to those close to me, to find out everyone thinks my art is bad and got a lot of comments which were mostly making fun of it. Every time I have Photoshop open, even before a document is opened, I get cruel jabs that my Dragons do not resemble Dragons.
Nobody knows I can draw people, and I do not want that being dragged too.
The 'Sorcerers of Avalaria' project, both novel and comic, are on hold for the foreseeable future. My progress was 40% through the novel and I was in the process of creating a world map for potential readers to follow the book with
I have a cover planned for SOA
Some art on my page is full of major spoilers, the whole idea of the Sorcerers is supposed to be unknown, I'm not sure how obvious it is at this point. For reasons of spoilers, I will try and see if Deviantart has a feature to hide spoilers, and reveal if you guys want to be rogue and see it anyway.
I am an advocate for low price(physical) and free online comics. I don't have the desire to make money from this, I want to create something that everyone loves and inspire OCs (race sheets will come with a book/eventual comics) and my goal is to see people taking my world and making their own content as branches of the SOA universe (fanfiction etc). If that happens, that will be my goal completed and I can die happy (I'm mid twenties btw 😅)