Hi all.
I wanted to take a moment to give an update as I seem to have been receiving some very lovely messages the last few weeks inquiring on updates and checking if I’m okay. I appreciate the concern and love, and the kind words you have sent.
As I have alluded to in some of my updates in the past on my chapters on Better & Worse, I have been battling with my health and suffer from numerous autoimmune diseases. This month (February) marks my two year anniversary of becoming so ill overnight that I was forced to give up my job and nearly died from organ failure. I have spent the last two years creeping back to ‘better’.
Unfortunately there is no cure and my current medication is only enough to minimise pain and allow me to live - get food, sleep, and make it to specialist appointments. Along with my condition comes severe high and lows, where I can have a run of good days and feel mostly okay followed by being bed ridden and/or assessed for hospitalisation. This yo-yoing and being focused on improving my health, which despite the lows I like to think is getting better, (I think I’m stringing together more good days, thanks to some new medication I’m trialing at the moment) leaves me so exhausted that even when I’m ‘well’ I’m so burnt out I just don’t have the energy to do any writing.
So my writing is on an unintended hiatus but Better and Worse is 75% done and I want to finish it off and tie it all up. I do have all of year 4 planned in my head and have shared some of that with a few people, but I think it would be best to just finish what I have started and bow out of the series. While I’m not sure when I’ll be returning to writing, it’s mapped out in my head, some of it written and would like to return to it in the coming months, but I know I won’t post anything until I have finished the whole series/year 3.
For those that message, thank you. Sorry for delay in responses. For the most part, I took a full break from all social media a few months back when I was just to ill to give any energy to chatting, but from the bottom of my heart thank you for the messages! I do read them and it means a lot.
Keep your fingers crossed for me that I can find a balance with medication and natural therapies to get well enough to write and return to work over the coming year - they are my personal goals :)
xx
