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Spent the day in hospital getting an IVIg infusion to help boost my platelet levels because they’re still only at 18,000. The thing about ITP is that they don’t know what triggers it so they don’t know how to cure it which means at the moment that no ammount of steroids, sleep or healthy eating seems to be working. I just have to live Day by day and wait for my blood test results on Monday to see if it’s worked. Fingers crossed 🤞🏻

Something I’ve been working these days. This is a detail of a very big illustration I’ll use as a banner for my table @geeknationbrasil :) Some people are asking me about my health, so, here is some feedback on that! If you don’t like sad stuff, skip the next part. Since my platelet number got higher at the hospital, I was discharged from there and soon I went to my doctor’s office for an appointment. He said this increasing number may be because my body had a vert late response to the steroids. He said I’d need to keep checking the blood exams every week until next appointment to monitor my platelet levels. Then, Monday I had this new appointment and the platelet values kept rising, so now I’m at a healthy value (152.000). With this value we finally can star tampering the steroids yay! For now I’ll be taking a smaller dose each 10 days and keep checking my blood exams every 15 days, until I arrive at 20mg dose. Then we’ll fractionate this dose at another pace. If everything goes right, I can be out of medication and just keep an eye on the platelet levels more often! If the levels decrease, I may have to start another line of treatment. Because the new coronavirus is spreading fast and I’m in the group risk (asthma, immunosuppressants, steroids), I’m raking the quarantine time very serious. Still I’m very very happy about the steroid tampering /0/ Wish me luck! Paula If you like my work, please consider supporting me at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/paulazanotelli Se você gosta do meu trabalho, por favor, considere me apoiar no Apoia.se: https://apoia.se/paulazanotelli #update #illness #itpawareness #pti #art #arte #illustration #ilustracao #pulapula #pula #bunny #rabbit #coelho https://www.instagram.com/p/B-LEMqSD0I7/?igshid=1aipz3yo4lds8

I achieved 1.5K followers on Instagram!!! Time to do another giveaway:) This giveaway will be a full color illustration of a theme the winner chooses (kinda like a free commission). This is your chance to get something made by me, personally for you ;) The illustration can be either digital or traditional in watercolors or copics. If you chose traditional media I'll send it to you through mail and you'll also receive a scan of the work, also the size will be limited to A5. To participate, follow my page @paulazanotelli, like this post and tag 2 friends in the comments! I'll draw the winner next monday, 03/15! Good luck! And thanks for your amazing support! If you like my work, please consider supporting me at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/paulazanotelli Se você gosta do meu trabalho, por favor, considere me apoiar no Apoia.se: https://apoia.se/paulazanotelli #update #illness #itpawareness #pti #art #arte #illustration #dog #cachorro #sketch #esboco #sketchbook https://www.instagram.com/p/B9fGsFfjyoL/?igshid=1imn0ejqr10hm

Hello everyone! This is a little something I was working on early today. It’s a commission for @_miramari ! I had to stop it for now because my doctor called me and suggested I’d go to the hospital, but I still wanted to share this sketch with you. More feedback about my health issue. This is a sad topic, so of you’d like to avoid these kinds of themes, please, skip the next portion of this text! Some days after the immunoglobulin treatment, I did more blood exams and my platelet number started to drop again. My doctor then suggested I’d go back to Sao Paulo and continue my treatment there. So now I’m in Sao Paulo now! Yay! I did more exams here today and my doctor here was contacted by the lab about the results. He called me and suggested I’d go to the hospital. I believe they’ll remake lots of exams to confirm my diagnostic to check the next course of treatment. Wish me luck! Thanks for your support! Paula If you like my work, please consider supporting me at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/paulazanotelli Se você gosta do meu trabalho, por favor, considere me apoiar no Apoia.se: https://apoia.se/paulazanotelli #update #illness #itpawareness #pti #art #arte #illustration #dog #cachorro #sketch #esboco #sketchbook https://www.instagram.com/p/B9R9CqPjqfn/?igshid=nyrfojr9mibf

Finally got better enough to draw a little something! I had this illustration planned on my mind for some days while at the hospital, so I'm happy to get it done. Also, feedback time about my health issue (If you’d like to know previous details, check the description of my last 3 illustrations!) This is a sad topic, so of you’d like to avoid these kinds of themes, please, skip the next portion of this text! I got discharged from the hospital on Monday (again xD) just after finishing treatment with immunoglobulin. My platelet count was much higher, following the blood exam! Yay! Tomorrow I'll check my exams again to see if the treatment lasted, so on Friday I get to show them to my doctor. Unfortunately I'm still on heavy corticosteroid medication, because it may have helped the immunoglobulin treatment to work, so for now, I need to keep coping with the collateral effects. I hope I can stop using them soon. Thanks for your support! Paula If you like my work, please consider supporting me at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/paulazanotelli Se você gosta do meu trabalho, por favor, considere me apoiar no Apoia.se: https://apoia.se/paulazanotelli #update #illness #itpawareness #pti #art #arte #illustration #ilustracao #indio #indiozinho #forest #floresta https://www.instagram.com/p/B9B86F4DG8a/?igshid=ckpkf360x2hm

If y'all are curious about my life and what i do and learn more about my disease then click this link... you wont be disappointed, now I’m still new to it so bare with me.

This article by Emilia Clark for @newyorkermag is honest and amazing. I figure if she can come out about this terrifying experience then I can tell my small story to the masses. I have/had a bleeding disorder since I was 15 years old. My body, at different times in my life, eats my platelets. If they get really low I have to be hospitalized for days at a time. I get to leave the hospital but then medicated for months sometimes years to get my body to even out. When I got ITP as a kid I was upset but took it in stride like kids do. There were times in my life it took me out of everyday fun like riding roller coasters at Disneyland Grad night at 17 to being benched for a year after I worked my ass off in Fresh Meat roller derby for 7 months. To big stuff this last time like 6 month of my life that I cannot remember, my hair fell out and I asked my mom to put me in a psychiatric ward because I thought I was losing my mind due to very high doses of steroids. Right now my levels are normal but I still get my blood drawn regularly. I still freak out every time I get a bruise or my nose runs for fear it’s a bloody nose. Of course there are others who have it worse but in dark times you just wonder if you’re going to survive and if you’re strong enough to get through it again. Each time I surprise myself, I become stronger and work harder to make the days count. Without my friends and family I would not be close to what I am today. #ihaveitpbutitpdoesnthaveme #thankfulforallthedays #itpawareness https://www.instagram.com/p/BvS9041Fw0E/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=kjorlu2q1h56