This is extremely disheartening to have read right after beating and falling in love with the demo ack.
Good wishes to your future endeavors, or that long break to cool down from this devastating event, I've also had that happen before as a creative and it takes the wind out of your sails pretty bad.
But if you ever decide to come back to Abscess and finish it, there are people who would love to see it grow to the end, me included. Something about it personally struck me, so I'm invested in whatever happens to this project (even if it ends up nothing at all and a new game gets made instead, your work seems promising just from this game alone).