Last year was hard. Life has been HARD.
Honey and Penny both got cancer.
Honey had surgery for MCT, and a ton of people helped out with costs to get her surgery scheduled and paid for.
Penny had lymphoma, and lived 2 months before her quality of life started to decline. Penny passed away this year.
Our rabbit Dusty passed away in December 2023. He was over 10 years old.
Chewy sent flowers and refunded our rabbit purchase that I tried to return (+ a big bag of dog food).
We’ve contacted a local rescue, “2 hearts” to donate Dusty’s cage and hay and pellets and other stuff to. The man running it came out and rescued a hawk the day we found out Honey had cancer. He’s a good man.
I only have photos from half the year on my phone and don’t remember a lot. We went disc golfing a lot for a few months until it was too hot for both of us, and we stopped being able to complete a course. (June ish?)
We were in a relationship with Nell from late 2022 - around June 2023. Life was so hectic but at the same time we weren’t really living much outside of putting out fires with her. Both of our stress levels were 12/10 constantly and her emergencies would bump it up to 15/10.
He was very sick this year. Is still recovering from a few head injuries, still has very high anxiety, triggers at night and at loud sounds. He was also having a lot of seizures, peaking around June. Has panic attacks which trigger flight response, or sometimes make him pass out. He has a stomach issue that is currently being treated, and seems to be recovering, but very slowly. Was throwing up every time he ate, with severe stomach pain and diarrhea. Food tastes bad to him. No appetite. Had a procedure and the doc says his stomach is “tore up” and he is taking Omeprazole and fomatadine, and we have extremely limited how much Aleve he takes (which is causing his arthritis pain to be worse as it is currently untreated). He throws up a lot less now, and mostly only if he forgets to take his stomach meds.
I started both of us on multiple vitamins at the start of December. Especially Iron for me. My endometriosis/ period pain seems to be getting worse again and I’m having mostly clots with dark blood and 3+ debilitating days a month of cramps and back pain and loss of focus.
The vitamins seem to be helping both of us in terms of fatigue and lethargy.
We have both been severely depressed this year, dealing with stress from loss of a serious relationship, loss of loved pets, chronic health issues. It’s all been too much. We are both still recovering, although he seems to be struggling more than I am with it, his health issues are taking so long to recover and get under control that of course it’s holding his mental well-being back too.
I’m thinking about closing my Etsy shop. I think I went the whole year without making a sale. I had a vendor fair. And made a decent amount of money, but it didn’t cover the amount I’ve spent on supplies this year. I still want to vend, craft floggers etc, but I just don’t think Etsy is working anymore/right now/ for me.
I would need a media manager to make it work, basically.
I haven’t been making time to make toys lately. I don’t have a dedicated space to work, and my energy is so low that by the time I clear off a space to craft, I’ve lost the energy and motivation to make anything.
I think I was writing some this year, but I think most of my progress on my Emory novel was in 2022. I want to work on it again. I want to read Terry Pratchett’s DISCWORLD series. I want to reread The Queen’s Thief series. I want to paint a million D&D miniatures. I want to paint canvas paintings and learn more about painting portraits. I want to have a garden with herbs and vegetables, and make our kitchen more accessible and easy to cook in.
He loves baking, and I want to help him start doing that again. I want to encourage him to draw and paint and be creative, and do things he loves and maybe things he hates too.
Oh, our neighbor Courtney had a baby in December. A son, Kaden. She didn’t know she was pregnant until late November. She thought she was sick and had been trying to see a gastroenterologist. She has two sons now, her oldest is Caleb (5).
Honey started a diet last week. She is eating dry dog food, with 1/4 can wet food at night mixed into dry dog food. We give her 3 small treats a day, since we were giving her bites of everything we ate before. So now, a bully stick counts as a treat. 2 pizza crusts or a chicken nugget counts as a treat. Instead of actual treats, she gets kibble as treats in between. The vet wants her to get down to 60 lbs. she is currently 72 lbs. and HUNGRY all the time. She’s been so food motivated since Penny passed away, and has been exercising less, too.
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