- No medication has worked to help alleviate my rheumatoid arthritis yet; more joint deformities this year, spread to my elbows

- Waiting on EAP approval thru the province for a biologic called Cimzia, will hopefully start in the new year and see improvement!

- Won a small lottery (lol), eradicated a couple debts

- Had another 2 week holter monitor because I had a couple scares in the summer and my bloodwork was scary looking

- Reconnected with some irl friends from high school

- Had my photo professionally taken (will post when I get them back!)

- Got my lip pierced on a whim!

- Went on the subway for the first time!

- Returning to college next month!

- Went to Pride for the 3rd year in a row, this time with my fiancée!

- Adopted a rescue pigeon from my local shelter!

- Finally have professional clothing in my wardrobe!

- Scored first salary role, then the company dissolved my role not long after and got laid off (lol). Now going to start another salary role in the same sector

- Went to my first concert with my fiancée. Saw Hozier in Toronto. Is also my last concert bc I had to sedate myself to prevent seizures

- Submitted and had my art shown in a local exhibition for the first time, family member said “art galleries aren’t really my thing” when I invited them. Never ended up going to the exhibit myself. Still upsetting

- Made significant progress in my art tho, lot more oil paint esque stuff

- Slipped out of handcuffs in front of 3 officers, excessive force investigation ongoing (medical call)

- Estranged from family save for 3; some family revealed they hated me since I was a toddler(?), thinks being gay is a mental illness

- After a couple years of hell, finally got more medical answers and treatment plans (RBD, frontal lobe epilepsy, rheumatoid arthritis)

- Sleep doctor dropped bombshell on me that my RBD will likely convert into a neurodegenerative disease (Parkinson’s, LB dementia) within the next two decades

- Moved out of a shit rooming situation, have my own cute studio apartment now

- Got engaged to Zack, but had to rearrange wedding bc of stuff outside my control

- Found out one of my lymph nodes in my neck has grown to a staggering 4cm over the past 2 years, given “wait and see approach” for cancer as the biopsy clinic won’t take folks my age unless it gets bigger

- Got deans honors thru my first two semesters at college, took a break for the fall semester