An early June update for all those wondering how everything is going!

I finally have some somewhat good news concerning the FA's rewrite progress and my own life, at last, getting back on track! But before we get to the actual good news; a bit of a recap of what happened in the last couple of months - Including the last two Patreon posts:

When I wrote the pre-last update concerning both FA's progress and my own health issues, I was expecting it to be the final one - Little did I know that my health problems would have a pretty serious relapse about two weeks after the colonoscopy (which was also mentioned in the same post).

To sum things up without going into too much detail for those not wishing to read about rather scary stuff: The end of March and a large part of April were without much of a doubt some of the worst months in my entire life; making it very hard and complicated to simply get by - Both for me, my whole family and especially my girlfriend, who I deeply thank from the bottom of my heart to sticking through the worst with me.

The same goes for the amazing FA community which was always there for me when things got borderline hopeless and almost unbearable. I simply want to say the following: All you wonderful people are amazing and I want to personally thank you for supporting me here on Patreon financially (which MASSIVELY helped in the last few months to cover the basic life needs) and for simply being there for me when things got really rough.

To conclude: I also want to deeply apologize for getting everyone's hopes up (including mine) by claiming that all issues were resolved after the colonoscopy; which, at the time, turned out to be more of a wishful thinking than the reality of the situation.

Luckily, I also happen to have some positive news for you after all of the bad stuff!

All of my issues have been progressively getting better ever since late April and have basically entirely disappeared by today; with all of the severe and dangerous symptoms gone around mid-May along with massive health improvements on my end!

I kind of want to avoid claiming that "all is well" in this post after the last time, but I wish to remain casually positive in regards to all of the issues finally being sorted since it genuinely seems that way this time around as there is far more medical evidence backed up with far more time elapsed to actually support it.

Now, the question everyone is likely asking at this point: Since my problems are (hopefully) finally sorted out, when will the development of FA properly continue?

The answer is fairly simple: I have already started by pushing out a small update on the old FA build a couple of days ago to bring it up to slightly more modern standards, so it will last a bit longer, before getting to properly replacing it with the actual new build, which I will be resuming the work on the next week! (unless some other entirely unforeseen health-related complicated rears its ugly heads once more)

Now, this is where this post would normally end, but since I have been writing for so long about having very problematic issues while also claiming of having a fairly high level of transparency; leading to (hopefully) genuine trust with everyone using FA and/or taking any part in the community - Therefore, I wish to share more details with all of you who wish to read about them.

Please be warned tho: The following text may be disturbing both from the medical and even normal-life perspective, so please read further only if you are fine with such things waiting for you ahead!

As you all might know, I mentioned issues with hemorrhoids before. While this problem was indeed a thing, it seems to have been only a side-effect of a much broader issue affecting my insides - I seemed to have had a full-blown infection of some sort inside of me and the whole area surrounding the place where hemorrhoids normally form at.

This infection developed over multiple months and peaked a bit before last year's Christmas and lasted for multiple months roughly until the end of April of this year; with the symptoms constantly bouncing up and down as time went by until they finally disappeared as mentioned above.

However, as bad as the problem mentioned above might seem, the most terrifying bit of it was a somewhat unexpected side-effect: The infection managed to creep rather deep and even affect my nervous system around the area. Now, that alone would be quite bad, but considering the area in question - It also managed to affect the places generally connected to the more "fun bits"; places known to be packed to the brim with all kinds of nerve-centers and nerves in general.

This eventually resulted in my nervous system overreacting heavily when such areas were being laid on during sleep - Forcing rather dangerous muscle spasms across my entire body and occasionally leading to me unintentionally biting my lips and/or tongue in my sleep; these states, I was told, somewhat resembled epileptic seizures.

These spasms sometimes could happen up to 2-3 times per single night and sometimes left me completely unable to work (online freelance work really saved me here) and my mind feeling so foggy during the following day that I could barely think, do the most mundane of things and even my memory of the affected months is still rather foggy when it comes to details and things that transpired.

Excluding these very disturbing and dangerous issues - The infection also brought with it all kinds of other more "normal" complications: Internal pain and heavy discomfort when sitting/moving/laying/etc., problems with going to the bathroom, and then lastly: Confused doctors as to what the hell was even going on as all these issues happened during the Covid craze and no one was (and still is) exactly sure as to what exactly caused all this.

Now, this roughly sums up all of the issues that I had to struggle with until now and if you read all the way here - You know now as well!

Thank you for both the time and courage of making it all the way here and I am looking forward to seeing you around!