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It's finally done! Spent nearly all day working on this. From pencil sketch to finished digital art using Fire Alpaca and my Wacom Intuos Pro.
May is EDS Awareness Month ! I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (specifically HEDS, hypermobility type), a hereditary connective tissue disorder that causes your body to produce faulty collagen (the glue that holds your body together). Since my connective tissue is weak and stretchy, and can't properly support my joints, this makes them painful, move in ways they're not supposed to, and dislocate easily - even in your sleep! But that's not even the half of it, unfortunately.
Since connective tissue is found everywhere in your body, EDS causes a lot of problems, including chronic pain, dysautonomia, gastroparesis and IBS, mast cell activation disorder, chronic fatigue, Fibromyalgia, depression, migraines, and an endless supply of other symptoms and conditions that vary from day to day and person to person. Most EDS patients' lives are severely affected, and many are unable to work due to the pain, fatigue, and level of disability, especially since EDS usually comes with at least one additional chronic illness. Many use mobility aids like a wheelchair, either in everyday life or only on particularly bad days, and some require feeding tubes, braces, splints, and other medical equipment.
There is no cure, and no effective treatment for EDS, so patients see a handful of specialists with hopes to minimize symptoms, but no guarantee of finding relief. Most doctors aren't familiar with EDS either, and I wasn't finally diagnosed until last year, so awareness is important! People like me need help, but most doctors look at us like we're crazy because they don't believe our symptoms!
(c) Kayla Wolden/Dizzy

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Description

It's finally done! Spent nearly all day working on this. From pencil sketch to finished digital art using Fire Alpaca and my Wacom Intuos Pro.
May is EDS Awareness Month ! I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (specifically HEDS, hypermobility type), a hereditary connective tissue disorder that causes your body to produce faulty collagen (the glue that holds your body together). Since my connective tissue is weak and stretchy, and can't properly support my joints, this makes them painful, move in ways they're not supposed to, and dislocate easily - even in your sleep! But that's not even the half of it, unfortunately.
Since connective tissue is found everywhere in your body, EDS causes a lot of problems, including chronic pain, dysautonomia, gastroparesis and IBS, mast cell activation disorder, chronic fatigue, Fibromyalgia, depression, migraines, and an endless supply of other symptoms and conditions that vary from day to day and person to person. Most EDS patients' lives are severely affected, and many are unable to work due to the pain, fatigue, and level of disability, especially since EDS usually comes with at least one additional chronic illness. Many use mobility aids like a wheelchair, either in everyday life or only on particularly bad days, and some require feeding tubes, braces, splints, and other medical equipment.
There is no cure, and no effective treatment for EDS, so patients see a handful of specialists with hopes to minimize symptoms, but no guarantee of finding relief. Most doctors aren't familiar with EDS either, and I wasn't finally diagnosed until last year, so awareness is important! People like me need help, but most doctors look at us like we're crazy because they don't believe our symptoms!
(c) Kayla Wolden/Dizzy

DO NOT TRACE, COPY, ALTER, OR REPOST.