When I had surgery during the day, I thought I'd used up all my sleep from the anesthesia.
I was worried about not being able to fall asleep at night.
But surprisingly, once I turned off the lights and lay down, sleep came quite easily.
The human body is truly fascinating.
Is it normal to fall asleep so easily just by lying down in a dark place?
Or perhaps the anesthesia-induced sleep during the day wasn't enough to relieve fatigue?
Come to think of it, considering how groggy I felt when waking up from anesthesia,
It probably wasn't a very effective nap.
After all, proper sleep should leave you feeling refreshed when you wake up.
Conversely, if you don't feel refreshed when opening your eyes, you probably didn't sleep well.
So I can say I slept very soundly last night.
My eye surgery went well, and I successfully made the appointment to visit my mother during the broadcast.
I had no reason to toss and turn.
Some strange people did show up in the fan cafe criticizing charitable donations, but
Thanks to viewers handling it appropriately, I suppose,
They gradually started to disappear.
Of course, credit also goes to my manager who helps maintain the fan cafe.
But the mature response from viewers was likely effective in getting rid of those troublemakers.
Ah, perhaps because of the nature of League of Champions,
Players often encounter people saying all sorts of nasty things in chat.
Maybe viewers have become accustomed to this and developed effective expressions for dealing with outsiders.
Well, the fan cafe has calmed down now.
But the fact remains that viewers and innocent people were affected.
I consulted with Hyunseo and passed along information collected by one of my viewers to the coach.
I think I've done everything I could.
- Me: You know those settlement payments I'd get if I sue them?
- Me: Would it be okay if I gave all of that to the legal team and asked them to protect my viewers?
- Coach Lee Taehyun: The company pays the legal team's salary, so you don't need to worry about that
- Coach Lee Taehyun: If you're concerned about the settlement money, charitable donations are trending these days—how about participating?
- Coach Lee Taehyun: Donations also come with tax benefits
- Me: Ah... I guess I need to consider taxes on settlement money too
- Coach Lee Taehyun: Settlement money related to criminal cases is usually treated as miscellaneous income with 22% withholding tax
- Coach Lee Taehyun: But malicious comments fall under defamation or psychological damage
- Coach Lee Taehyun: These kinds of cases, along with physical damages, aren't classified as miscellaneous income, so they're tax-free
- Coach Lee Taehyun: Noel, you'll be paying taxes on your salary too... anyway, that's just one option
- Coach Lee Taehyun: Of course, donations should only be made when you have extra money and genuinely want to do it
- Coach Lee Taehyun: Don't follow others and end up making your own life difficult—it's perfectly fine not to donate
- Coach Lee Taehyun: Do whatever makes you comfortable, Noel
- Me: Thank you, I will
- Coach Lee Taehyun: Just pass the message to Hyunseo too
- Me: He went home after visiting me... I'll tell him when he comes back
I really thought my life would be all downhill after becoming a woman.
But if things are working out this well in exchange for giving up an eye and a foot, maybe it wasn't such a bad deal.
Since my father, I've met nothing but good people.
Gabi, Jaemin, Kanchona, my viewers, and our team...
Of course, strange people occasionally get involved.
But even then, if I consider that they became sacrifices that led to opportunities to meet more good people, I could call it a fair trade-off.
Even my eye has been fixed thanks to yesterday's surgery.
Of course, if the sutured cornea tears, I'll need immediate surgery.
I'll have to avoid intense exercise and be quite careful.
But it's better to be able to live normally by being careful than to have completely lost an eye.
"Yaaawn. What's this, did it snow last night? Ah, I should have taken pictures of the snow!"
"It's okay, if it snowed at night, it won't have melted yet. Look outside, it's still piled up."
"Wow, then let's make a snowman right after breakfast! Noel, Gabi. Remember what we promised yesterday? We said we'd make a snowman."
And making a snowman should be safe enough.
I don't need to strain my eyes, and it doesn't require intense movement.
I just need to avoid snowball fights.
Well, when making snowmen, people often play pranks like putting snow down someone's collar.
But Gabi isn't that type of person.
And Jaemin... she's not thoughtless enough to play such pranks on me when I need to be careful.
Hmm, I wonder if the saying "birds of a feather flock together" applies here too.
I don't particularly enjoy those kinds of pranks either, so viewers might find it a bit boring.
"Yes, let's make a snowman after breakfast."
Remembering that viewers had said they wanted to see us make a snowman,
I accepted Jaemin's suggestion without much hesitation.
"Ugh. Hospital food is really bland. It's not bad, but eating this would make anyone feel weak. You need to eat salty food to activate your neurons with sodium."
"What? How does Jaemin know about that?"
"Are you underestimating me? Despite appearances, I remember what viewers say. They said I'm irritable because I eat salty food. I learned about it from the conversation that followed."
"I see."
The food may be bland, but the hospital meal is still tasty.
Oh, maybe it was just tasty to me.
Anyway, I took a pill to prevent infection.
Speaking of medicine, I remembered the pills in my drawer.
Fortunately, neither Gabi nor Jaemin asked why I wasn't taking them.
Well, as long as I don't get stressed, Yeseul won't appear, so it doesn't matter.
The doctor came for morning rounds to check on me.
To confirm there was no pain or abnormal symptoms overnight, or anything else wrong.
And to get permission to make a snowman.
The doctor and the accompanying nurse laughed when they heard that.
There's nothing embarrassing about wanting to have fun.
Some might call making a snowman childish or pure.
But for us, it's not much different from playing a game.
"In case someone comes to visit you or medical staff needs to find you, please leave a note on your bed indicating where you'll be."
"Ah, that's important. I'll write it down."
Having received permission, we bundled up warmly and headed to the hospital's walking path.
Yesterday, Hyunseo came out wearing such thin clothes.
It's amazing how it could get so cold and even snow overnight.
Of course, Hyunseo said he doesn't feel the cold as much.
You know what they say.
Women have thicker subcutaneous fat than men, so they feel less cold.
So maybe Hyunseo, with his large chest, feels less cold.
While turning these baseless speculations over in my mind, I pushed the wheelchair.
Gabi and Jaemin, following behind me, commented on the snow piled up on the walking path.
"Wow, look how white it is. But it seems someone already swept the path. Can we use the snow piled up in the flower beds to make a snowman?"
"I don't see why not. We're not dumping anything strange there, just using snow that's already in the flower bed. As long as we don't eat it."
"What, Jaemin? Don't tell me you do those broadcasts where you eat snow?"
"No, of course not. What do you take me for? I'm not that kind of streamer. I'm purely a skill-based ranged DPS streamer. Though I did experiment once to see if snow with syrup would taste better than shaved ice..."
"Wow. If you were going to do that, you should have just gotten shaved ice."
"No, snow-like shaved ice and actual snow are quite different."
Jaemin really tried something that usually only boys would find interesting.
No wonder viewers call her a boy with long hair, or a boy with XX chromosomes.
But I was once a boy too.
"So how was it? Is snow with syrup worth eating?"
"Ah, viewers told me not to eat it, so I didn't. Seoul's air quality is poor, so snow contains pollutants, which is obviously bad for health. Plus, snow treated with de-icing agents can be dangerous."
"Wow."
Usually when someone does something funny like this, viewers donate and encourage it.
But it seems even viewers thought this was too reckless.
That's why they warned against it.
Anyway, both Jaemin and I are lucky with our viewers.
Even though strange people occasionally appear, our regular viewers are willing to sacrifice a bit of entertainment for our safety and health.
"Though they said eating a little bit is fine. But if donations came in saying not to eat it, I shouldn't. Anyway, shall I start the broadcast now?"
"Yes."
And so Jaemin begins our day.
Perhaps thanks to the bland breakfast, her voice, which had been low last night, had somewhat recovered.
Jaemin immediately opened the broadcast with a cheerful voice.
"Good morning, everyone. Today I've started the broadcast a bit earlier than usual. That's because it snowed so much. Since Noel is hospitalized, I've been staying here too. Thanks to that, we can come out to this walking path attached to the hospital and see this snow field. Near my home, all the snow gets swept away, leaving only dirty slush. But here there's so much white snow. When you see such pristine white snow in the flower beds without any footprints, don't you want to step in it? Jump with both feet and land—square!—leaving footprints behind."
"I think I should do it with one foot. Is it okay to leave just one?"
"Ah..."
But Jaemin hasn't developed immunity to my jokes.
Our viewers are gradually getting used to these jokes.
I should make jokes in front of Jaemin more often.