Cin City life ep.18

Transcript

Good evening ladies and gents. I came to a classical music concert that was on Hero Square but I actually missed it. I got here too late.

Not my fault though, I was supposed to come with a friend and he kept pushing and pushing and pushing and in the end it was too late to come here. The weather is perfect, like it's one of those nice late summer evenings, 22 degrees, just perfect, not too cold, not too hot. A lot of traffic around here right now.

Maybe I should move down a little bit. I'm in City Park considering a drink but I don't know. I'm still supposed to be meeting my friend but he's not coming until like for another half an hour so I thought I'd come out, maybe see if I can catch the end of the concert, pass the time but I can't.

So I thought I'd talk to you instead. What else should I be doing? Life has been tough.

August was really tough. I'm gonna tell you about Lula. What happened with Lula? Okay, oh my god, this is the world's most uncomfortable bench.

Never mind, I'm staying. When we got her with my ex, she was very healthy for about a year and a half or two years and then suddenly she started moving funny and I was actually in Hungary at the time. My ex was in England with Lula.

And. .. My ex took her to the vet and they just said, oh she's got a bad knee, dislocated knee.

Put it back in place, she should be fine. Okay. A few days go on, she wasn't feeling better.

She was just disoriented, couldn't move properly. And I said to my ex, you need to take her back to the vet because it was clearly not her knee. They did an x-ray, x-ray showed nothing because obviously she's got no issues with her bones.

And then at that point I was coming back to England and I took over because I think my ex wasn't firm enough with the vets. I took her back, did some blood tests, liver, everything. Couldn't find what was wrong with her.

I left her with a vet for overnight because she was just really not doing well. And she said, I think I'm gonna refer to her to neurology because it seems like there's something wrong with her brain. So we did take her to neurology.

They tried to do a spinal tap on her, they couldn't. They did an MRI, they did everything, only one in the world. And they couldn't find anything.

They could see damage in her brain, but it was inflammation. So they said, well, excluding everything else because they couldn't do a spinal tap because she's just too small for it. It seems like she's got autoimmune disease and it's meningitis that causes inflammation in the brain.

And it affects her cerebellum, that affects how she coordinates herself. And ended up giving her injections weekly. And it was, yeah, it was a lot of money, a lot of treatment, but she pulled through.

And when I moved back to Hungary, she was still on medication, but like slowing it down, slowing it down, slowing it down. So by the time, by now, she was medication free because obviously you can't take steroids all your life. It's not good for your liver.

But it came out again. And back then they told me, this dog will not live longer than eight years. And she's five now, so we're approaching it soon.

So I was, I was really panicking. But luckily the medication that we managed to source does work. So yeah, I, it was a really stressful month.

And then I did the stupid thing of almost signing. I mean, I did sign exclusivity with Eucleo, but I ended up pulling out because I just realized that I don't have the pull that many other creators do. People were not following me.

And despite me not advertising my Patreon anymore, I was still getting random subscribers here and there. It's because Patreon is just such a well-known platform that accepts people. And Eucleo is relatively unknown.

They, yeah, it's just wasn't working out. And even though Eucleo was offering to pay the difference in any revenue lost for six months, I also realized that despite them paying a difference, I won't be able to grow. Because I cannot grow unless, you know, I have made up everything that I was missing.

And I wasn't. I had three subscribers in the first three weeks. And it's just, they just weren't coming.

Which is fine. I understand. I don't blame anyone.

I blame myself. Don't get me wrong, please. I don't blame any of you guys for not following me and the people who lost.

Please, this is not aimed at you. This is aimed at my own stupidity that I thought that it would be a reasonable choice for me, which it wasn't. But anyway, that's in the past now.

I've decided not to go exclusive with Eucleo. I'm staying on Patreon. And I'm still posting on Eucleo.

So if you if you want to follow me there, please feel free. It's a platform that takes less fees. So, you know, it's a little bit better for my wallet.

It's a little bit better for your wallet as well, because I think processing fees are cheaper too. But no pressure. I just appreciate that you choose to support me in any way.

So thank you. I've never really wanted to do free trials, but I did just now because I was in desperate to get my patrons back. And while I didn't think it would work long term, I did gain a few patrons, which is nice.

So thank you. I appreciate it. It's just been a really hard month.

My car broke as well. And I'm just. ..

I'm just broke as fuck. But I'm fine. Lula is fine.

And that's the most important part. It was summer. Summer is.

.. It was a good summer, apart from these things. And I'm ready to slow down the social life and work more again.

I found a new passion for editing. And I just. ..

Yeah, I just want to make more immersive audios and. .. And come up with some crazy stories and make them come to life.

Okay. Love you.