Fancy Jo (Patreon)

It had been so long since I drew Jo I decided to dress her up.

It's been rough trying to stay ahead of the mounting costs of everyday items. On top of that I had to get several medical procedures and get two cancer screenings? I guess you'd call them. I'm not exactly sure. Whatever you call them I found a lump on my chest and it had to be looked over. Men do die of breast cancer and I've always had pretty imbalanced hormones, so I couldn't just ignore it. It ended up not being anything other than the usual tumors I get all over my body all the time that are also benign. They offered to take it out but if it's not gonna kill me I don't want to pay for the privilege. It was stressful not knowing and my insurance fought for 4 weeks trying not to pay for anything and demanding tests that weren't necessary just to be dicks apparently. I didn't say anything about it because I get in trouble when I talk about anything now. Some random family member appears and complains, or whatever, so I just stay silent and stew over the things going on. In order to try and get ahead of the bills I've been taking on as many little jobs that pay fast as I can. Which is like trying to take one slab of butter and coat a whole loaf of slices. I was already running at close to capacity. I thought I was going to get a little bit of a break and I guess I jinxed it by expressing the tiniest bit of happiness about that. At some point there's going to be a level of stress that I can no longer handle, yet more keeps being being slung at me. I dunno. All I do know is that I'm not alone in reaching the breaking point. The exit surveys here are brutal. It's gotten to the point where I don't check Patreon now because I can't bear the weight of the stories I see as people leave. So many jobs lost to downsizing. It's like, what's everyone supposed to do?

Just cope. Everyone just has to cope with everything and that's the end of it, I guess.

Maybe next month it will turn around though, right? If you're still with me by then I guess we'll catch up and see how things went. XD