SamiKat

Looks like 2026 I’ll be heading into my Switch Streamer era. I don’t make the rules.

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Also to note: I can still function, just not in full capacity or at a near optimal level. I'm not fragile by any means. Also, my intelligence and critical thinking are not affected, but how I process and act on information can be. (10/10)

I appreciate EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU for your support, patience, and kindness. It’s going to be a shit few months overall, but you help to make the good moments shine bright. Thank you. 💜 (9/10)

Please know I am trying my absolute fucking hardest. I’m making a lot of mistakes and forgetting a lot of really important things. It’s not that I don’t care, I just can’t function properly. I’m a fucking mess of a human being. (8/10)

If I don’t, we switch meds in January. There’s nothing else I can do, and it’s fucking with me on so many levels. My mental health is NOT good to say the least, and I’m absolutely terrified what this means for my livelihood because I can’t work. (Disability is NOT an option.) (7/10)

a big issue in the past, but the other cognitive issues are new. He’s not sure if they are long covid, so I have to see my GP.

PLAN:
As of now, I’m staying on the same meds to see if they start to work again over the next few months. I’m basically staying as is and just hoping I get better. (6/10)

the passage of time and my memory. It’s like my ADHD is in fight or flight mode. It’s bad. It’s really really bad.

I saw my rheumatologist on Friday who said getting covid could have activated both latent and/or new lupus symptoms. The brain fog could be related to my lupus as it’s been (5/10)

More than that, I’ve developed more severe cognitive issues in addition to my brain fog that have been greatly affecting my executive function, such as my ability to concentrate and make decisions and act on them. A big issue I’m facing is there’s something wrong with my ability to comprehend (4/10)

Symptoms I haven’t had in nearly five years are presenting, including new symptoms. My disease hasn’t been this bad since before I came back to streaming in 2019.

Most of what’s affecting my ability to create and keep up with content/streaming is my severe fatigue, weakness, and brain fog. (3/10)

After getting covid and having to go off my immunosuppressants for a month due to covid, my disease significantly worsened. I went on additional meds to help until my regular meds took effect again in 4-6 wks. That was August. They worked a bit, but then my disease started to get even worse. (2/10)

Screenshot of my health update. There’s too much text to fit in this descriptive Alt Text, so continue reading the thread. It is written across 9 replies.

DETAILS:
My lupus is and has been active for a lot of this year, but got significantly worse after getting covid at GCX. I haven’t been totally honest about how severe it’s been the past two months. First off, my life isn’t at risk, so no worries there. That’s not to say my livelihood isn’t. (1/10)

Screenshot of the too long; didn’t read. Full text of the update (not pictured) is written out in a thread of the original post. HEALTH UPDATE: (Please excuse the length, full text in replies.) tl;dr - Lupus got worse after covid and my regular meds aren’t working fast enough - Biggest lupus issues are fatigue, weakness, and brain fog - Developed additional cognitive issues affecting concentration, decision making and execution, comprehend the passage of time, and memory - Saw lupus doctor Friday - Not sure if additional cognitive issues are partly long covid - Treatment: wait and see if my regular meds will finally work again; if not, change to new meds in January - Mental health is really bad - I’m trying so fucking hard, doing what I can, and I’m terrified for my livelihood (can’t work) - Thank you for all your support, patience, and kindness 💜

Health Update

I posted this on the other site and in Discord, but forgot to here because it’s too long for a post and Alt Text.

Here’s the too long, didn’t read screenshot. The full thing is written out in the replies w/ screenshot on first reply.

‼️ Warning: it’s long.

Hello. I’m back in the land of the living today. What a weird few days it’s been.

SamiKat - Twitch Hi, I'm Sami! I'm an obsessive gamer, a passionate creative, and a serious oddball. My favorite games are Skyrim, Destiny, and Pokemon (in no particular order).

Live now for my belated BIRTHDAY STREAM!!!

Starting with Silksong for a few hours, then moving onto Destiny 2 for FotL bow hunting! (Or is it haunting? 🤭)

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Birthday stream will actually be tomorrow during the day. Sponsored stream for part of Sunday then.

My lupus has been super duper bad this week, so not sure about tonight’s plans yet.

Thank you for your patience with me now and lately. 💜

thank you so much 😭

Getting my eyes dilated. Things are starting to get blurry on my phone. This is so weird.

I only have a minute or two more until I need to stop looking at my screen. What if I miss something important? What if I lose myself entirely? Tell my friends I love them. Don’t forget me.

Do you ever see the little Windows Update orange dot and feel personally attacked and violated?

SamiKat - Twitch I'm really really bad at this game ~ Destiny 2 Ghosts later ··· !throne

Live now and starting with an hour of two of panicking in Silksong, followed by MASTER GHOSTS OF THE DEEP!!!!!

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Live with Silksong. If it's anything like last night... Come join for the laughs!

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I’m so bad at Silksong, my mods made a drinking game out of it. Then viewers started to play too. It was a journey.

SamiKat - Twitch I'm really really bad at this game... First Playthrough ··· !throne

Live with Silksong!! I’m very very very bad at this game, so it’ll be funny.

Then maybe live w/ D2 depending on how many times I rage quit Silksong. 🫡

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It’s a bit of a super terrifying time to be a Destiny 2 streamer on Twitch, huh?

I have to solo ALL THREE dungeon lairs with Thorn and Lucky Pants, and I can’t complain while doing it.

Fuck.

And what length would you recommend? I plan to put my full challenge runs up, but I want to do a montage companion video. Think tl;dr edition.

Question for YouTuber/editors: what do you look for with a montage? What do you do about audio/music?

It’s been an especially rough health day. Apologies for no streams. I’m gonna try to sort this all out better in the morning.

Wordle keeps telling me that’s not a word again. It looks like a word and sounds like a word, so can we just try it please?

SamiKat - Twitch Day 3 of Subathon (Uncapped) ~ Solo Master Ghosts w/ all bows ··· !incentives & !milestones & !donate

Live now for day 3 of my uncapped subathon, and today we go all the way! Starting with at least 13 hours!! Came hang out!

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