Azerane

Well it's been a long time since I wrote a journal entry, but for the most part I find them unnecessary. Most things I need/want to say I write in my image descriptions, so this largely goes unused.

If you want to know why I haven't really been around the last year and a half, I think these dot-points of that time period explain it well enough
-Returned from 6 months visiting my now fiance (he proposed before I left) in Florida in late January 2012
-Feb my niece Evie was born
-Spent many months in a bad place mentally, tried for ages to get work, ended up with my old job back then got moved to a better position (6am starts though, yuck)
-Family health drama, my dad had keyhole heart surgery, my poppa passed away, and my mum was diagnosed with aggressive invasive carcinoma.
-Saved up all my money so my fiance could come to Australia for a year, he arrived October 31st 2012 (first good thing all 2012 since we got engaged!)
-Stress at home helping support my mum through chemo etc
-At some point there was Christmas and New Year
-Jan 2013 moved out with my fiance to our very first rental place together. Followed by no monies xD
-Feb got my rabbit Bandit, wonderful to have a rabbit again. Hazel-rah passed away in Sep 2008.
-March had a belated engagement party, also my best friends engagement party.
-April (now ) My mum has finished both her chemo and radiation treatment, just have to wait till July for a follow-up scan. Bandit was desexed yesterday, not sure how he's liking it yet, though it's a fair turn, he chewed through my laptop power cord last week. You've probably noticed that I've also been back into art (I had a major focus on my bird photography last year, haven't had as much time for that since moving out), a few uploads, have started a Lion King fan comic. Yes I'm still working on it, I was halfway through inking the third page, but Bandit had other ideas Only just got the laptop back up and running yesterday with a new power cord, one expensive bunny!

Where am I on the web? Still in my usual haunts, you'll find me over at:
The Lion King Fan-art Archive: fanart.lionking.org/Artists/Az…
Furaffinity: www.furaffinity.net/user/azera…
And Lion King and Watership Down forums: leahalalela.org/forum.php and watership-down.proboards.com/ respectively.

Any questions? xD

I for one, have been a very long-time fan of the novel 'Watership Down' by Richard Adams, and when someone mentioned it to me a couple of weeks ago, it sparked a strong new interest in me and one day, I suddenly decided that I would make a forum so like-minded lovers of the book, movie and tv series could talk about it.

If you're interested, you'll find the forum here: watership-down.proboards.com/i…

I've spent quite a bit of time building the forum, and am currently just trying to find some people with a love of the fandom to join us for some discussion of it and discussion about bunnies in general. So if you've got a spare minute, feel free to drop by and at least check us out. I don't want people to join just for the sake of joining, but if you truly have an interest, feel free to join us and help our community to grow!

For those who are unaware, 'Watership Down' is a beautiful book set in England, told from the perspective of a band of wild rabbits, who leave their home warren in hopes of better pastures, and is about their journey and trials and the rival warrens they encounter. It's a wonderful book, and is not just a childrens book about bunnies, it is far from it. Clever and funny, whilst dark and violent, it's a must read for all lovers of animal fiction.

Needless to say it's been a long time, DA. I would firstly like to thank everyone for the support given on my last journal azerane.deviantart.com/journal… regarding the health of my cat, Sparks. It gives me great pleasure to let you all know that she is still with us and very happy and healthy. She even loves the toys she got for Christmas!

In terms of art, I've only just gotten back into it. As you may or may not have noticed, I've recently uploaded a few things, I hope to keep the art coming. I've got loads of ideas with not enough patience or skill to put them all to paper/tablet. For anyone who was interested in that comic idea I had going, Red Horizons, I think I've abandoned that. At some point I'll find the pages I sketched out and upload them. Why did I abandon it? Three reasons, I realised it wasn't going to work, the main character had to undergo such a dramatic change that I couldn't see it working and being believable. Secondly, I have a new idea that I've been sketching out and writing little plots in my mind for for the past couple days (lets see how long this one lasts!) And thirdly, everyone and his dog does wolf/dog/canine comics, so now I've moved on to cats, haha. It's still set in Australia though.

I'm still working out the nuts and bolts of the story, and figuring out characters and their roles, but so far it has a more solid story than Red Horizons. The only problem is that I'm not really sure I have a main character. There's not really a purpose for a main character, although as I am writing this, I am thinking that there might be. I have slight concerns for people thinking of Warriors, when they think of a comic about cats. However, I've only ever read the first warriors book, it was several years ago and I don't even remember what happens. I do want to read more warriors books at some point, but I figure that until I've fleshed out this comic and gotten it going, reading warriors is a bad idea as I could be influenced by it without meaning to.

Otherwise, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year. I look forward what 2011 brings.

Update 3: Ok, good update this time. Sparks spent two nights at the vet and they kindly arranged for me to be able to pick her up after hours after I finished work for the day. She looked so much brighter, more alert, she was purring and making her happy sounds when we got home. Unfortunately, I was worried because she didn't eat after I got her home yesterday, and she didn't eat her breakfast before I went to work this morning. As a precautionary measure, I bought some more chicken in case she still didn't want to eat her normal food (as she had been eating that at the vet). I put a tiny bit of dry food in her bowl when I got home as she seemed hungry while I went to get some chicken, and she happily ate about 6 pieces! So then I rewarded her with a few small pieces of chicken which she gulped down very eagerly! That has me so relieved, so here's hoping she returns to near 100% health Now I just have to somehow manage to get the remaining antibiotic tablets down the throat of a quickly strengthening cat

Update 2: Yesterday I made another appointment because she seemed to have gotten worse in that her eyes and nose were weeping. Vet said she'd developed a respiratory infection as well! Good news though, I left her there overnight, they put her on IV and more antibiotics. I rang this morning, her discharge is gone and her lungs sound clean, she seems brighter. And although she didn't eat, she licked at her food (first time in a week)! She's staying another night, so hopefully I'll get to bring her home tomorrow. Thanks again for all your concerns and support.

Update 1: First off, I just really want to thank all of you for your support and concern, I really appreciate it and has helped me to stay positive. :hugs: Just thought I'd update you all on the situation. This morning, I rang and got the blood results. Her organs (liver and kidney) seemed to be working normally and it just showed signs of infection. So basically she just has a digestive infection. Mid-way through the day, she appeared to be picking up a little, she was sleeping a lot (probably from lack of food) but she seemed alert in her response to me, she wasn't going to the toilet as often and when I offered her food, although she didn't eat it, she had a really good sniff of it and was much more interested in it than she has been every other day. Unfortunately, after getting home from work, mum thinks she's worse. I think because she's already weak, she's getting some sort of cold, she has weepy eyes and nose and is still drinking, but still not accepting food. First thing tomorrow I'm taking her back to the vet, at this point I feel like there's two things that can be done. They can keep her there overnight (to start with) to see if she improves on fluids etc, although it will be stressful for her and she'll probably still be in some pain, problem with that is she may need to end up in there for days just to get better, or they may suggest I put her down. I really want to try for her to get better though and I don't know what the right thing is to do. Still, my vet has been really good so far and really helpful, so she'll know what's best.

Thanks again for all your support, it means so very much to me. I'll keep you posted.


Original: Monday 24th: Really need to just let this out right now because I'm so upset and struggling to sleep. This weekend, our cat Sparks, who's 14, started getting really sick. She went to the toilet inside 3 times on the same day (saturday) and there was blood in her urine and faeces. I worked all day Sunday but my mum tells me she hardly ate anything. Today (Monday), she hasn't eaten a single thing all day and I'm told she was vomiting this morning before I was out of bed. I rang the vet and I have an appointment for her tomorrow morning, apparantly they were open later than I thought, but I didn't realise until it was too late. I am so worried that I didn't react soon enough though or that they're not going to be able to do anything for her. It's really upsetting, and although I hate thinking the worst in a situation, it's hard not to. I really do hope it's something that can be fixed or eased with medication, but I'm really not sure how likely it is, especially at her age. I just don't want to lose her, I love her so much.