How I think Megour survived 9.5 years with Gula
TRIGGER WARNING - topics of human body, abuse, medical topics
Year One: Gula initially presents as a high fever, but my hc of Megour initially being diagnosed with type one diabetes falls flat when you realize that with type one diabetes no symptoms are listed as presenting as a high fever. But I think since Gula would need constant food from the host, it starts with attacking the pancreas and presenting itself as type one diabetes. I say she had type one since type two takes YEARS to develop, and type one is quicker to develop and present.
Year two: With the Gula attacking the pancreas, it would only be a matter of time before Megour needed insulin injections to support her body. Due to gula, the abuse against Banica started getting more intense. Especially with her combined obsession with the Conchita's survival, her abuse and resentment of her daughter only worsened.
Year Three: Gula had started to take mental tolls on not only Megour, but Banica and Muzuri as well. Banica had started to feel the effects of her family's illness. The house felt more sweaty and like a meatbox than a proper home. The walls were coated in a thick layer of humidity and scrap. Megour's bones had started to weaken from her rapid weight gain, Muzuri still tried to look past the foul state of his wife, but couldn't see the same woman anymore. She used to be a mother, a good mother.
Year four: By now her pancreas has become completely useless. So now that the gula doesn't have an energy source, it goes to her stomach. The mucosa of the stomach is the next target for gula. As the mucosa protects the stomach from stomach acid, gula eats away at it, causing the stomach to start eating itself. This would be the breaking point of Megour's mind, as no matter how much she ate, she would never feel full.
The next six years carried on similarly, with the gula slowly starting to eat away at Megour's eyesight. Her bones started to grow more brittle with every passing day, since they could no longer support her weight. People gossiped, her usual. Banica ate more and more as well, never wanting to be like the mother she had now, but wanting to be like the mother she had then. A kind woman, the same woman who would let her do her makeup on the floor while waiting for Muzuri to come home. Banica missed those days, but knew she couldn't have them back.
January, EC 306: Megour felt her head clearing up, she felt light again. She felt like she could breathe, stand, and even love her daughter again!
February, EC 306: Only 11 more months of this hell. 11 months until she was free. 11 months until this sickness would leave her for good.
March, EC 306: The last thing she felt was the same blade she had seen for years, piercing through her layer by layer. She was almost... free.
