Dispatches to friends

Life this week

In 2024 I was diagnosed with long covid after two years of struggling with any diagnosis that could explain my symptoms. I was okay with this until I was not and flirted with depression. Thankfully I had a lot of help and did not spiral downward. Still, it's hard. It's not the life I had in mind but it is the life I have now. I am attempting to heal, to deal with the changes and what they mean. One day at a time, one week at a time, I learn who I am redefined in part by an illness that took so much of who I defined myself by away from me.

Each week, I write a little. Those are snippets of life as a I adjust or simply, more appropriately, just snippets of life. Words on a screen, sometimes with images too as I seek to find photography again, and probably too much earnestness and longing.

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