Health Update (Patreon)

Hey all,

This was either going to be a really unpleasant post or a really good one but frankly I hate existing in a state (state of being, not, like, literal US state... actually, no, both) where I have to write this in the first place.

I had planned to be all productive and good and workethic'd this month until about two-three weeks ago where my body completely broke down. My breathing was short constantly, I almost passed out from sitting down on the couch watching TV, my sides started to hurt to a point where I couldn't even fall asleep at night. I thought it would hopefully pass but it went on and got worse over the course of a week until I was on the couch and literally saw my vision start blacking out. I told my wife that I didn't want to worry her (and, honestly, just refused to accept it myself in some way) that I might be sick and so I had kept all of that from her up to that point but it had gotten bad enough that I knew something had to be done.

I got super worried, so I scheduled a COVID test. Thankfully, Washingston State provides them freely at certain checkpoints in the city, so I got tested and waited for the results which came in annoyingly late, today, and they are negative. I'm not entirely out of the woods, I still have some awful aches in my body, but I am feeling a lot better and have over the course of the past couple of days. I have no idea what happened but talking with my sister has made me think a lot of it was just bad manifestations of stress and anxiety and probably a good chunk of my sometimes-super-hypocrondriac brain. I have a breathing condition that's affected me my entire adult life and it's possible that had a role in it, too. 

Whatever the case, I'm feeling better now but for the majority of the month, I tried to not overexert myself and spent maybe an hour or two a day working at most. I've had the time to make some cool stuff still but it definitely won't be at the quantity I was hoping T_T

If any of you are in Washington state and have access to private transportation or can walk to a testing centre provided by UW, I extremely recommend doing it just to be safe. It turns out knowing is a lot better than not knowing, even if getting a swab shoved WAY TOO FAR into my nose was super unpleasant. 

💕