#i got extremely hyperfocused on a mini-campaign that i'm gonna be running

[jae-birde]

So... where I've been

Well, it finally happened. The fanfic writer curse finally caught me.

(TW for discussion of illness, vomiting, and hospitalization under the cut)

As I'm sure an explanation is warranted for that, here it is.

So, I was gonna post a fic on the 9th (of August), but I felt way too shitty to do any my final editing or to actually post it, so I decided to postpone until the next day.

The next day I overslept until almost noon and had a nasty cough that was so bad, that I threw up first thing that morning. I thought about editing my fic, but decided I'd wait till whatever this illness was passed.

Fast forward a few days, and my cough is getting worse. I've thrown up multiple times. I still feel like absolute shit. So I go to a drop-in clinic, because my mom is getting worried that it's strep throat or something like that. Unfortunately, they can't tell what it is at the clinic, and I'm still getting worse.

After a talk with my personal doctor a few days later, I go to the hospital because she's concerned it might be turning into pneumonia. After an 11 hour wait, I FINALLY see the doctor at 4 am in the morning, and I'm told that "it's just a really bad flu". Now this didn't feel like a really bad flu. I was coughing so bad I was throwing up. I could barely sleep because I kept coughing. My lungs and throat both hurt REALLY badly. And I was STILL coughing.

But, the next day after the trip to the hospital, I had a doctor's appointment with my personal doctor scheduled anyway. So, after talking to her, she sends in a request for an x-ray, and I go in for one that day. Turns out, I had pneumonia in one of my lungs, and so I got a prescription medication that's supposed to help, and was told to talk to her in a few days.

I take the medication. I start sleeping in a chair because it's the only way to keep me from coughing every ten seconds. I keep coughing. I throw up four times in one day. I start getting worse. The medication is supposed to help within two-to-three days. Five days later, I'm not better. I talk to my doctor again. She tells me to go the hospital, and I do.

Turns out, I got fucking double pneumonia in both my lungs, and I'm hospitalized for three goddamn days. No, this is not a joke. I literally came back from the hospital two days ago with a prescription, and now I'm (hopefully) on the road to a full recovery.

But yeah. The curse is real. It finally got me and I went to the goddamn hospital for it.

So that's where I've been! I'm sorry for any unanswered tags and for generally disappearing off of the face of the earth for over two weeks, but in my defence, I got pneumonia.

I'll probably slowly be returning to tumblr/ao3, but no promises on how consistent I'll be until I'm fully recovered....which will probably take a few weeks, but still!