Health update (Patreon)

Hey Marchmallows,
I have already shared these news on Discord, but I forgot to also post them here in case you weren't active there ❤
I have some perhaps not best news to share.

Yesterday I went to my monthly checkup and shared my newest bloodwork and glucose tolerance test with my doctor and to put it mildly, as she stated 'The baby is fine, but they've eaten you alive'. And that is more or less where I am right now.

I am severely anaemic and no amount of iron supplementation is helping (I have special supplements and I'm on a rich in iron diet). but this seems to just come with pregnancy itself and is a perk during pregnancy however it's not helping with my overall energy levels. Apparently anaemia helps the female body to produce an additional 0,5 l of blood to prepare to loose it during childbirth. But still it causes me to be exhausted and flegmatic all day.

Another thing is that I seem to suffer from a permanent UTI ever since I pregnant. I have already been through 2 antibiotic therapies and I still have an infection. I am doing tests now to take a third anitibiotic... That will of course also lower my energy and will fuck up my already weak immune system even further.

I have also gestative diabetes, confirmed. Nothing new under the sun, I had it with each pregnancy. But this time round it's giving me a particularity hard time.

On top of it all I have also found out that my kidney are slowly shutting down, probably because of the constant infection for 5 months as well as I now have to stop drinking tea (which was my only comfort since i can't have any comfort food or do anything fun basically, even a stupid massage is out of the question casue they dont do those to pregnant women). So I am now limited to eating meat, eggs and some cheese, tomatoes and citrus fruit that apparently support kidneys and drinking only water to try and help my kidneys recover.

If my test results don't get better next month (especially on the kidney side) I am probably looking at hospitalization for the last 3 months of pregnancy. I can only hope that they will not shut down completely or I will look at a lifelong dialysis and that sounds like hell I am not ready to survive.

In any case, I will be still drawing, becasue I can do that, it doesn't exhaust me. So I will continue working on commissions but I will definitely slow down. So I ask for your understanding as my state is basically ruining me. I won't be too chatty, I don't have energy to do anything, especially not multitask, so I will just slowly draw what I can and try to survive day by day now.

I am really worried and stressed about this. I dread ending up in a hospital for months on end.

Please keep our family in your prayers, if possible and well, I guess let's hope for the best.

I will do all I can to try and survive this.

The only good news is that my baby is doing great, but yeah. I'm paying the toll for that in a severe manner this time. I used to only have to worry about anaemia and diabetes and now I have a constant UTI, antibiotics and kidney failure to worry about.

Either way, wishing you a good day. Sorry for delays in commissions. They will now move way slower, it has been a particularily hard week for me.

Best regards,
Lana ❤