180 Days

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Yoooo what's going on everyone! I know it's been a minute and I've kept to myself, but this update is a lot more promising than any of the others so it should be worth it. I reallly wanna get right into telling you guys what's going on since last update, but I think I should quickly go over the situation to review since I think some people don't know the details.

Okay, so about a year ago I learned I had extremely low testosterone. I imagine it had been decreasing for many months before that but I didn't realize what was going on until it got really bad. It made me completely unable to function and play smash, but I still worked to get better. I tried to take testosterone and force it into my system as primary doctors recommended, but that made things worse. About 6 months ago I started a much healthier and time-tested route to improvement with an endocrinologist, Clomid is the drug for those interested. I was originally told by my endocrinologist and a separate very knowledgeable doctor that it would take 90 days, or 3 months to get better. I did get better, but far from fully functional. For whatever reason, my endocrinologist told me I would be guaranteed better in about another 90 days based on current research. This made me and a lot of people upset since I wanted to be better quickly.

So what are the 180 days' results? Well, I do feel pretty good. Not good enough to practice or compete or anything yet, but a lot of welcome energy and personality and clarity has come back to me. Based on what my endocrinologist told me again after I made my last update, it should be any time this month(December) that I get all the way better. If that's true, then I'll easily be able to confirm for Genesis. If it takes a little while into January or into February(worst case scenario I think) then I won't be able to confirm. I want to be able to get better as quickly as possible and don't want traveling to interfere since I'm getting so close. There is also a possible situation that occurs where I get better with just enough time to register but I wouldn't feel good about competing, so I may instead opt to go and commentate/meet fans I've strung out for so long and such lol. I would benefit much more from practice and analysis in the early stages of my full recovery, so I'm not worried about going to tourneys for experience or anything just yet. Honestly I'm not sure what I'll do in that situation and will leave the decision to a future PPMD with more focus.

That's enough of the hypothetical. The overall message is things are only getting better and I hope to have very good news for you guys soon. I'm very excited to be back and do my part to change the game as well as connect with you all. Just a little longer, even at the worst case! Thanks for sticking with me everyone. See you all soon =)

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