I did letterpress, screenprinting, and linocut. I also experimented with litho but that's super hard to do in a home studio.

I miss doing printmaking so much....

For now, the main goals are simple:
💊 medicine
🍗 calories
🕊️ patience

(and maybe convincing him that food isn’t poison)

I will keep everyone fully posted if his condition rapidly deteriorates or needs to go to the ER.

Bomo needs about six more weeks of intensive at-home care, with a hopeful projection of being fully healed by the end of December.

If he isn’t recovered by then, I’ll host a charity stream to cover any further tests or potential surgery—but thankfully, it doesn’t look like it’ll come to that.

This may change if I suddenly, miraculously, get hired at a game studio or something.

My goal: draw on stream at least three days a week, and hopefully build enough support to make it full-time.

If you want to help but can’t donate, please consider watching, chatting, liking, or sharing my streams.
Engagement metrics actually help a ton. 💬💖

Right now I spend about two hours a day on his care. Between that and doing my own medical tests, October has been… a lot.

But I’ve started streaming again.

I suppose they didn’t expect me to be determined enough to become his at-home vet tech, but here we are.

The medicine is still costly, but he’s calmer and healing faster at home. He goes full feral in clinics, so stress alone could’ve killed him.

When I came to this reliezation and I did the math in my head...

I was furious.
Especially because it’s obvious he’s not dying //he’s recovering.//

And here’s the kicker—my first vet tried to pressure me into “overnight care until he’s fully healed.”

Six weeks.
$2,500 per night.
That’s $100,000 total.

Not a typo. One hundred thousand dollars.

Their “alternative”? Pay $4,000 to euthanize him.

I tried applying for a loan to help with medication and testing costs, but with the government shut down and the credit union unable to access my tax records… that’s in limbo indefinitely.

The bad news:
He stopped eating and drinking long enough to cause severe inflammation in his liver and spleen. At his age, just 48 hours without food can trigger that.

That’s why the tube feeding, fluids, and careful monitoring are literally life-saving.

The liver takes a long time to heal.

The good news:
• No tumors or cancer tissue on his tests.
• Normal bathroom habits, so no blockage or surgery needed.

I didn’t want to run a charity stream without knowing the end-game plan for his care—or what number I’d even be aiming for.

So I waited, got a second opinion, and learned that what Bomo has usually takes about six weeks to fully recover from.

The vet never gave me a clear answer on treatment costs.
He wanted to do more tests (minimum $900) and then long-term overnight care in a specialized facility—$2,500 a night.

When I asked for an actual estimate or plan, he dodged the question completely.