I'm Alive!!! Or, that was an epic disaster...

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Hello my fellow deviants! You thought I was dead, right? Not so! I am still very much alive and somewhat functional. I think. I hope. Well, at least not so far as my stomach is concerned, which is quite a long, boring story that I won’t divulge now, because this is the Internet and on the Internet I can masquerade as a healthy human-being and not the chronically ill young woman that I actually am. Like I said, long, long  story…

But in case you were wondering, here’s the bare bones of my autumnal saga of happiness (eh, not so much happiness, a lot of pain, yeah, pain, ugh). So things were going well. Yes! Last time I blogged, I had just wrapped up Faire Season 2013 and was happily busying myself with a bunch of new cosplay endeavors (more on those later) and a new Loki fanfic and other fangirl nonsense, when I was unexpectedly derailed by medical malpractice, of all things.

Yeah, so, in Real Life I have very severe gastroparesis, which is an incurable, virtually untreatable motility disorder, yada, yada, yada, really it’s just a fancy way of saying that my stomach doesn’t work. Practically ever. And because of a lot of complicated factors (including overall declining health) I decided to have another feeding tube placed, even though the first one I had didn’t really work, but I was so optimistic that this one would…or maybe delusional, I don’t know. Consequently, in mid-October, I walked briskly into the operating suite, plopped down on the table and let the doctor do his thing. At least, I thought he was doing his thing.

What came next: MAJOR complications, followed by MAJOR surgery, followed by a week’s long hospitalization, followed by more (but less major) complications, followed by more (but again, less major) surgery, followed by now, a month later, when I’m clawing my way out of a hole I never thought I’d be dropped into.

Yeah, it sucked. Big time. But here’s the good news…it’s finally over! YAY!!! I’m recovering. Slowly, very slowly, but surely. Which means that I can put all that nastiness behind me and concentrate on all the important things in life, like cosplay, fanfiction, fangirling and tons of Loki feels. (Even though I haven’t seen the new Thor movie yet because of the previously mentioned medical FAIL).

So yeah, this long overdue blog post is basically a placeholder until I can start posting new deviations, which should be very, very soon. Here’s what’s currently on tap:

A Katniss/Merida mash-up cosplay that is basically complete but still needs to be photographed.

A new chapter in my Loki/Sigyn fic “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”.

And….a new LOTR Elf cosplay based on the Galadhrim guards of Lothlorien.

Woohoo! So stick around, because as far as I can tell, I’m still alive and kicking (or resting comfortably in bed, same difference, though) and ready to fangirl my brains out, because really, that’s what life is all about. ;)

Right?

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