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Hello, Patrons and public alike! I am very sorry I haven't been very responsive lately. I was debating whether or not to talk about this, but you all deserve to know what's going on.
When I went into the hospital on the night of the 4th of July for my ulcer, they did a CT scan, because they weren't sure just what the hell was going on. Of course they did figure out I had a bleeding artery in my stomach (called a Dieulafoy Lesion, not technically an ulcer, but that's not important).
But the CT scan incidentally also found a 2 inch (6.5 cm) mass on my kidney. Now here's the added fun part: I was born with only one kidney.
Last week I went in for a CT scan with dye injected into my veins to take a closer look at it. Yesterday I actually went in for an endoscopy on my lesion to see if it was healing - and it is, in fact, healing well, and that's all doing great.
When I got home I got a call from my doctor with the results on the second CT scan, and it's a bit of good news/bad news. The good news is that it's not obviously cancer. It could just be a benign fatty tumor. It hasn't grown in the 3 weeks between CT scans, so it's not an aggressive cancer. The bad news is they can't rule out cancer.
They simply don't know, and they have now given me an urgent referral to a specialist, who I will see on Monday. It is likely they will do either a more detailed MRI or a biopsy or both.
As you can imagine, this has affected development. I have to be in a certain mood to create Unleashed, and I'll be honest with you guys: I've been in somewhat of a dark place the past couple weeks, and I've not really been able to do much for creation.
I've been working on contingency plans. If the news is good, development will likely resume pretty quickly after a short decompression. If the news is not good, then the conclusion to Unleashed is not going to be very satisfying, but I will be sure to post the models so that anyone will be able to recreate scenes with the characters, and I will post a comprehensive guide to the secrets that are currently in Unleashed - many of which are still undiscovered. I will also post a full text guide with some renders of how the story of Unleashed is originally planned to continue through to the end.
The hope, of course, is that this is just some fatty stupid benign thing on my kidney and I can go back to being me. But if it is worse, then we'll deal with whatever comes and I'll make sure to do whatever I can to not leave you guys hanging.
For now, I hope you are all having a much better summer! On Monday I don't expect to hear much other than "this is what we're going to do", but I'll be sure to let you guys know how it goes.
As always, thank you for your support,
-CarbonBlue