I’ve been absent from the writer blog, in part because I have been struggling to actually get back to writing. I am writing again, but not at the same pace I was before November 8th of last year. We still have a number of doctors who have a continuing interest in my youngest: cardiologist, nephrologist, endocrinologist, neurologist and neurosurgeon (these are two separate doctors). We are still not certain what caused the high blood pressure, and he is still taking multiple medications to make sure it doesn’t happen again — but the anxiety always eats part of my brain — the mom part, which has been quite loud. For November and December, my brain was all mother-brain. Actually, while my son was in different hospitals, that was still the case. We … Continue reading
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A brief update on life, because otherwise I’m still struggling to get words written. My youngest is now walking independently. At the recommendation of his Physiotherapist, we had an ankle brace made for him. It fits under his foot and rests just below his knee, and it’s a semi-rigid brace. The introduction of the brace led to immediate improvements in his quality of life: he started to walk outside of the house, and he changed the way he comes down the stairs (prior to brace, he backed down the stairs, one step at a time). After a week of experimentation with outside walking, he started to venture out on his own. He’s always gone for walks during the day, and he wants – of course … Continue reading
A comment that came in reminded me that I have been entirely absent from my author site for a couple of months. I have not been writing. On the 8th of November, my youngest son had a hemorrhagic stroke. The strokes with which I’m most familiar are ischemic — blood clots. Hemorrahgic strokes differ by cause and by how damage to the brain is done. The cause was unidentified high blood pressure, as opposed to an aneurysm, and it took some time to figure out what had caused this, although they now feel reasonably certain they know (hyper-aldesteronism). Of the four people in our family, he’s the one who’s in the best physical shape — or he was, before the stroke. The stroke took left-side functionality from him, … Continue reading
Nothing else in my house broke down (I say, knocking wood). The heat of summer has passed into the cooler, early autumn, which is my favorite season of the year. (I find Spring too muddy, Summer too hot, Winter too cold (plus snow)). Sadly, it is also my worse allergy season >.<. We had a lovely thanksgiving dinner, a much quieter one than in our early years as a family, with my long-suffering spouse’s parents, sister and brother (and his wife and his young son). It’s been a year, with a lot of ups and downs, a lot of changes. Sometimes those feel overwhelming, destabilizing. But when we’re panicked or stressed — or at least when I am, as I shouldn’t speak for anyone else — I tend to not see the things that … Continue reading
It’s been a long month. In fact, it feels like it’s been three long months, all condensed into September. I was sent copy-edits of Heir of Light, the new Sagara novel (it’s the sequel to Shards of Glass). I was given enough time to do them. I… have a bit of a flinch response to copy-edits. My father’s 90th birthday was this September 11th, and because he’s getting on in years, my sister flew in from LA, and my brother from Victoria. So — we were all going to have dinner together. My sister and brother were staying with my mother at our childhood house, which is what normally happens. My brother, however, tested positive for covid the day after he arrived. My father tested positive Tuesday morning. … Continue reading
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