Tammi-Adopts

It's been so long sine I've been on this site and even longer since I've posted. 

Alot has gone down over the past year on my end. 

1) Got a job in the service industry in a 5 star industry.

I honestly didn't know what to expect when a friend dragged me to go apply at their job fair.  Didn't even expect to get through with the interview. Surprisingly it went so well, i knew right on the spot they were going to hire me.  I'll have to say , I've learnt so much from working there and met a tonne of interesting people I wouldn't have if i were somewhere else. 
One major con though, was that it drained every last bit of my free time. No time to go out, hang or even see friends and no time to do what i love most, my art. It was wake up, fight traffic omw to work,  work late, come home late, prep for the next day , sleep and repeat. 

2)  I got very, very  sick.... 
Unfortunately I over-worked myself to the point where I was getting very little sleep , I neglected eating healthy and overall was very stressed out.  And due to my poor lifestyle ,at the time, along with all the stress, my body literally started to break down on me . 
It started with an eczema breakout, that trailed all the way down my left arm. I found that to be very strange at first, considering i hadn't had a breakout since   Secondary school ( high school). After that, everything went downhill.  My joints started to hurt everywhere. I when i say  everywhere, i mean : My jaw, teeth,  neck, elbows, wrists, fingers, hips,knees, ankles etc.... basically everywhere in my body that was connected to something was swollen and in severe pain.  This was around July 2019.
I have never felt pain like that in my entire life, I couldn't bend my fingers, wrists, couldn't fully extend my elbows, my knees hurt and felt extremely fragile and everything was just in constant pain. It kept me up at night and all i could do was soak in hot and cold water and cry. It was terrible. 
During that time i went to several doctors, i got a whole set of blood tests done but all of them came back saying the same thing. They had no idea what was wrong with me , the blood tests apparently didn't indicate anything was wrong with me but my body literally felt like it was falling apart. I couldn't even wash or dress myself, everything hurt so much . My main doctor suspected I was having an Auto-Immune response, saying it could possibly be arthritis  another one said i could be lupus.  My main doctor put me on steroids, and they stopped the flare ups only while i was taking them. But the moment they ran out, my whole body started to swell and freak out again until i got a new prescription. The amount of stress and anxiety i felt when my medication was running low was crazy, cause i knew the moment they were gone, it would be hell all over again . Not to mention  I hated the feeling on initially taking the steroids, it rose my heart rate to frightening levels.   
I was out from work for 3 months while trying to figure out what was going on and i was getting super frustrated due to all the money i was spending just to be told they didn't know what was wrong with me. 
I was legitimately afraid for my life due to the fact that all of my bones and joints felt so tender and weak. One morning i stepped out of bed and didn't get a stable footing and i honestly felt like my knees would snap out of place if i wasn't careful.
I missed out on the yearly convention we host here and my friends and family were all very worried. 
Thankfully a friend hooked me up with a Blood-specialist that helped out his mom with similar issues and she was not only able to figure out what was going on inside my body in record time, but she put me on a detoxification program and put me on a super strict diet. 
No flour, no sugar, no dairy.  Basically a keto diet. She showed me that my body was over-ridden with inflammation due to a number of factors : Not eating enough of the right foods, eating too much of the wrong foods, not enough sleep, too much stress, i wasn't hydrated and i had parasites from whatever i had consumed. Plus i had way too much calcium and not nearly enough magnesium in my blood , leaving it to clot. I was an absolute mess. 

3) New diet, new life, and recovery 
Due to the new detoxification process, i had to go off the steroids, which lead to more flare ups and breakouts all over my skin.  It took a whole week of serious pain, but i found ways to massage my hands and joints to the point where it wasn't driving me insane . I was thrilled to be off the steroids, cause i really didn't want to have to rely on them to feel like a normal person. After a month of the detoxification process, i was able to go back out to work . 
Luckily i work in the office, so all i had to do was sit at a computer and work, it wasn't alot of stress on my joints. But i had to walk around alot more, due to me being stiff after awhile. I had to take thing super easy, due to me not fully recovering. My colleagues helped me out a tonne as well so it was manageable. 


During all that time, i still couldn't draw of properly bend my wrist and it was frustrating and sad at times but I was determined to recover. and thanks to the support and help from family and friends, I've gotten to the point now where i can draw again. 
I haven't fully recovered as yet but I'm no where near a broken up as i was last year.  And I'm still doing my best to treat my body right , so that i can fully recover. 

I'm super happy that i'm able to pick up a pen and draw again. And ill resume posting here in the next couple months. 
Hope you guys can forgive my long absence