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Hi Everybody,


No, I'm not dead yet My body just doesn't like me very much. My latest bouncing act (lol I saw your chat there ^znow-white and *mschick ) is just from my uncooperative body. As most of you know I have MS but ironically that hasn't been the major problem as of late. I had most of my large intestine taken out about a year and a half ago and after than was doing great, digestively speaking . But then, late last winter I started losing weight and losing my appetite. For a while, I ignored it as I am prone to do, but it got bad enough and I got so weak that I begrudgingly went to the doctor (I've seen waaay too many doctors to want to rush out and go see one for yet another problem. I'm a naughty patient) . Apparently I had been walking around with an infected gallbladder so that had to be taken out, too. I've wondered if the immune-suppressants caused that, but there's no way to really tell so I'm still taking them. Anyway, because of that I haven't been able to do much of anything for quite some time. Right now I weight 89 lbs. which is really gross. It's also hard to have much energy being so underweight but I'm hoping it will get better soon. That old saying "You can never be too rich or too thin" is a load of bullshit . Well, at least the thin part is.

Here's the stupid part: I'm not supposed to eat a lot of carbohydrates because of the missing intestine. Now they tell me I can't eat fats because of the missing gallbladder. Exactly what I'm supposed to eat is beyond me. If any of you know what doesn't have a lot of fat OR carbs, I'd love some suggestions .

I hope all of you are doing well I will do my best to reply to my heinously backlogged inbox/comments/favorites/watchers, but there's a lot there and I can't do too much at once yet so I apologize in advance if I don't (or haven't) answered anyone in a timely manner. I will try but I don't want anyone to think they went unappreciated.

Believe it or not, I have been doing some art though hehe. I taught Ryan how to clean brushes since I can't really get around so I've been oil painting...from bed! It's great!! And with him cleaning brushes and bringing me stuff, all the drudgery about oil paint clean up/set-up is gone. I feel like a spoiled brat... or a lucky pampered princess . After all, there's a bright side to (almost) everything. (I'm not naïve enough to say EVERYTHING; I can think of things that there wouldn't be a bright side to. Not related to me, but in general) however, this definitely has some perks!

I'm surprised that I remembered all the emoticons. I guess that makes me a dA nerd <-- proof

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Happily a member of: and the fun project

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OMG! I have finally caved and started collecting up stamps.


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