It literally happens to everyone, like the weather, or stubbing your toe. Rather than become flippant or deny basic reality, a habit you can imagine my stance on if you read my comic, I think it’s better just to recognize and accept facts like this. The older you get, the more likely this is to happen, by the way. One day I was dropping my wife off, the next I didn’t see her face for a month. Often there is actually very little you can do about it. It will happen to you or someone you know, inevitably. It’s a blunt but fairly inevitable fact of life, something I don’t think Americans talk about enough, to be frank. So here’s a thought for you: some day, you will die in a hospital. As my life has continued on I have been very grateful for my habit of actively recognizing when I am truly happy, which is quite often, as I’m a lucky and very creatively and emotionally fulfilled person. I truly thank you for your support, readership, and understanding, it has supported me through this rough period. It was an extremely difficult period of my life and it helped underline my very strong belief that nobody can truly do anything alone. I fortunately had family come in to help me or taking care of basic things would have rapidly become impossible. While coping with all this I also went to the emergency room myself as my appendix almost burst and was unable to even pick up my son for a while. While sleeping in two or three hour increments and taking care of my newborn son, I was coping with basic issues such as finding out where my wife actually was, or with the insurance company trying to deny her care after one week of hospitalization. I drove my wife to the emergency room at 2:00pm on a Wednesday and then did not see my wife at all for almost five weeks. Having a child is a pretty huge and life changing event, but it was extra complicated for my family, as my wife suffered major post-partum health issues that put her in hospital, during a high period of covid.

Thanks for sticking with me through this year, and the long hiatus at the start and the slow update pace for a while. This upcoming year in 2023 will mark 10 years doing the comic, which is a huge deal! I’m catching up on RPG work and taking my son to visit his grandparents for the holidays, so the next update will likely be January 13th. Hey all, thanks very much for reading Kill Six Billion Demons.

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