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About Megan
Hi!, I’m Megan Croft, the artist behind Meg X Craft. I love animals, art, music, and cosplay. Oh, I am also disabled.
Learn a little about me and the passion that drives my art below. Don’t forget to follow me on social! 🩵
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Hey,
Like I said, my name is Megan Croft and I do all the art here at Meg X Pours. I learned to love art from my Nana, who has a history of painting, teaching art, and creating craft patterns. I started exploring art including pour paint as a young child.
Things changed when I was 15 and a half. It was just days from my half birthday and I was really looking forward to getting my learner’s permit. The day after Labor Day I walked into my class and told my teacher “good morning.” They tell me that I collapsed, hitting my face on the chair then the back of my head on the floor.
I don’t remember dying
I don’t even remember that morning. I can remember what happened the day before, but my next memory was weeks later. So I can only tell you what I’ve been told.
My doctor says I died over 20 times. That’s when she stopped counting.
The teacher, EMS crew, and ER team fought and wouldn’t give up. My dad says he heard someone say to the doctor, “It’s been over two hours. Someone needs to talk to the family.” But the doctor wouldn’t give up. She said so much, “I’m not ready to give up. Call cardiology. There has to be something we haven’t tried.”
How I lost my leg
They ended up putting me on ECMO. This is a machine that pumped and oxygenated my blood because my heart and lungs couldn’t at the time.
Unfortunately, there were problems getting blood into my legs, especially my left leg. I guess it got real bad because my leg started dying and tried to take my kidneys with it.
When I finally came out of the coma three weeks later, I had lost my left leg to the hip and had to do dialysis several times a week. I hated dialysis.
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Rehab & Art
The next few weeks I went from not even being able to lift my head to standing on my remaining leg. It took a lot of help and I could only stand for seconds at a time, but it was a lot of progress in a little time.
I ended up at inpatient rehab after that to learn how to be more independent. That’s where I got into pour painting again.
I made several canvas pours including a very special one.
I had a g-tube when I arrived. Since I was in a coma, I couldn’t eat. I woke up with a tube in my neck to help me breath and another tube in my nose (an ng-tube) to help me eat. I didn’t like the one in my nose and pulled it out.
I wasn’t strong enough to use my hands, so I peeled the tape off with my tongue. Like I said, I really didn’t like it.
The doctor’s decided to give me a g-tube in my stomach, which is how I ate for a few weeks, but I got better faster than they ever expected.
When it was time to remove the g-tube, Child Life came up with a plan to help talk about what they would do.
We did a painting using a g-tube. I mixed the paint and used a big syringe to squeeze it through the tube onto the canvas while they talked about what a g-tube is, and how they remove one.
It was loads of fun.
The rest is history
I was able to come home the day before Christmas Eve. It was about four month since my heart attack. I did my first semester of school online so I could catch back up. I made a lot of other pour paints those next few months.
Then it was time to go back to in-person school and I was busy with school and band. Eventually I graduated and was able to walk across the stage to get my diploma. It took a while but people cheered so loud it hurt my ears.
I’m in college now and plan to work in Child Life Services so I can help kids who are going through the kinds of things I went through.
I make quite a few paintings. It helps with the stress and trauma. I find it calming, almost therapeutic.
But I’m running out of room, so I have started selling my art.
My art
Canvas pours
