Roller Coaster Ride Continues

 

Life's roller ride continues...

There are so many people who are struggling with their particular roller coaster ride of life.  I am slowly pulling myself out of the funk I got into after the brain surgery.  I'll be clear, here, I'm still struggling with the fall out of the fall down.

My life, already truncated by avoiding the plague (don't @ me telling me covid is gone away - it isn't - and what reporting anyone can find about it tends to minimize it, and refers to 'after covid' - drives me crazy.)

Last week I went shopping because my house sweater was falling apart, and we donned our masks before we left the vehicle, in part because we are only just over a nasty cough I caught in the hospital (thank goodness it was 'only' a cold, not covid!), we walked over to the store.

As we reached the door, a man coming out did a second take and grinning at the two of us said 'So, you're afraid of the fresh air?'

Doug and I both said 'yes' and ignored him.  

This week I have the six month check up at the cancer clinic.  I have to be honest here - after the year I've had I am seriously worried that they are going to tell me it's come back.  :(

Yesterday I turned down a zoom presentation with a presentation date of autumn 2025, spring 2026.  After the surgeon told me last week that I may never, entirely, recover my speech, I turned it down.  The little bit I was making doing seminars wasn't enough to cover my studio expenses, but it helped.  Now even that has been cancelled.

However, I have a supportive friend who offered to alpha read for me, so I have been in touch with a magazine and suggested some content for them.  That, at least, is something on my own time, and with my friend alpha reading feedback, I feel I can keep writing.

To all those people are struggling with the current conditions (including the politics), I send light and love.  If you see someone struggling, give them a hand, if you can, or even just a virtual hug.  And remember, lighting someone else's candle does not diminish yours...