I’ve been avoiding giving this real-life update so I could deal with my grief. Sadly, at the end of January, Lucky started showing signs of getting worse. We had to decide to let him rest in peace. There was no better outcome, as his health and mobility were getting worse, as was his pain. So on February second, we took him to the vet for the last time. My heart was altered by the eight-pound kitten, leaving me emotionally shattered.

A week later, I had a health scare myself and ended up in the emergency room. They still don’t know what caused me to lose consciousness twice in half an hour, and tests for that are still ongoing. I’ve had test after test done, and still no answers. However, a few good things came out of it. They realized my thyroid meds needed to be adjusted. That my calcium was low despite me taking a supplement, and my doctors are trying to make sure nothing like that happens again.

Then, on the twenty-seventh of February, I lost a family member. It was sudden, and the family is in shock. This post has been incredibly hard to write. I don’t know what else to say, so I’m just going to leave it here and hope the rest of 2026 will be much better.