Damn, my sympathies and best wishes to her. I hope it's something that can be cleared up, or at least mitigated, reasonably quickly. Update as you can, family is far, far more important.
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Heya Cat. I'll pass along your kind words. It's gonna take time and some really concentrated effort, but we expect her to recover.
Why not have a look at her TLK art on her DevArt account. I think you''ll like what you see there.
Alorkin