Hello worms.

Let's get the good news out of the way first. Chapter 6 is a few pages away from having a part 1 ready for NG. It's just been slow because of motivation and now commissions (grumpy needs money).

I also had my neurology appointment and learned a few things. It turns out during September there was a conference discussing the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. From my understanding it's yet to be published but what I had been dealing with was called Clinically Isolated Syndrome, which is basically a single episode caused by inflammation in the Central Nervous System, which for me presented itself as Optic Neuritis. The new findings found more than half of people with CIS go on to develop MS so from now on they're treating it as such (I think). Ask someone in the field if that made any sense but point is the diagnosis got bumped up from 90% to 100% official.

I also got my blood test results back. I'm mostly perfectly healthy apart from MS which is weird because I draw webcomics all day and only emerge from my room to eat a piece of lettuce between old bread because I'm the only person in this house that believes in expiration dates on food. The only thing that showed up out of the ordinary is I wasn't immunised for measles. I probably missed the booster in high school, so that's gonna delay things a bit. They're taking my spinal fluid and doing more MRIs hopefully before the end of the year, then I'll be beginning treatment, most likely Tysabri.

Which brings me to the bad news regarding BE. I'm very slow and inconsistent at releasing new chapters but I might be going on hiatus after the full version of chapter 6. since I'll be immunocompromised and it could get pretty fucking rough. I'll keep working on it but probably not at the pace I was before, at least until I can actually function normally again. I understand if anyone wants to adjust or end their patreon membership in light of this news.

Who knows? Maybe nothing will change or maybe I'll be so fucking miserable I blast it all out in a few weeks like the end of chapter 1 (don't get your hopes up).

Well, that's where I'm at right now. I also have man flu as I write this so I'm having a brilliant last few weeks, clearly. I miss the gym but I got to meet a mutual earlier in the week though, which was nice.