A Sincerest Apology
I lived. Well, I'm alive, but not living.
For those who have been wondering why there was another delay from Wanderlust, please keep reading this post.
First off, I want to apologise not only to my contributors and fellow mods, but to our wonderful adventurers who had put their faith in us as well. I want to assure you that my sudden silence was not because I don't care about this project or because I want the profits—I'm the only one out of everyone in the team not receiving profit, just so you guys know—but it was because I fell ill and had to be hospitalised. My condition will be explained under the cut, but the details may be uncomfortable for some people who can easily visualise images from words alone.
So, to those who would rather skip that, the reason why I was rushed to the hospital was because I had gastritis and severe food poisoning. Had I not been taken to the hospital as soon as I noticed my condition, which is explained in the cut, the gastritis would have evolved into gastroenteritis.
Now, please be warned that this post will have triggering content. Read at your own risk. (I don’t want to scare you away though; it’s really not all that bad! It’s probably stuff people have heard before, but I do want to be mindful of those who are squeamish.) This post is gonna be lengthy, folks, so bear with me as I recount what happened to me.
I suppose I should start from the beginning. I, um... I admit that I haven’t been taking care of myself in the past month or so because I’ve had quite a few tragedies happen in my family and dealing with another family emergency (during the holidays, no less!) was tough on my mental health, and it was starting to affect my physical health too. I had to drive to a different state and stay there to deal with them for a while and struggled to keep my composure under that stress. Before that though, I haven’t been eating well and have taken to eating a big single meal every other or two or three days. The doctor explained that it was mainly the reason why it was incredibly easy for me to get sick, and it was the primary reason why I contracted norovirus. (I’m positive I got it from a dinner party a week after the new year started, but it could’ve been anyone, really.)
To those who aren’t familiar with that pathogen, norovirus is incredibly contagious and particularly nasty in that it causes vomiting and diarrhoea. It’s commonly found in stomach flu, or stomach bugs.
For someone like me who hasn’t been in top shape for a few months now, I’m not surprised that I did get sick, but I definitely did not expect it to happen before I was officially sending packages out. However, I want people to understand that my recent bad eating habit is merely a part of the reason why my immune system is as low as it is.
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