Bonjour,
I'm sorry that I haven't written a blog for quite a while. Let me start this blog in wishing you all a Happy New Year and better health for 2025.
Last year I spent my time and energy in contacting and seeing friends and family. It had been a long time and was overdue. So my writing and my blogs have taken the back burner. I had to move out of my comfort zone in order to visit friends and family, notably my aging parents. It was a challenge and somewhat daunting. It's never easy to travel with a chronic illness like M.E. Thankfully I was able to do that with careful planning and assistance on each stage of my travels. Yet it was far from easy and told on my health. I've created new memories and feel happy that I made the effort. I sacrificed my health but feel that the sacrifice was worthwhile.
During 2024 I also had to deal with yet more new health issues. This was the year to at last address my vision problems and change my glasses - also overdue and had become urgent. For a time I was having double vision which was most unpleasant. That has now been resolved.
The end of 2024 was extremely difficult for me as inevitably I had caught a nasty cold virus as a result of my travels and exposure to different environments. The worst was an extremely sore throat and mouth. For a while I couldn't swallow or eat and sleep was impossible. Following the cold came a persistent cough. Hopefully I've seen the last of that!
I now start 2025 with a few projects in mind. One is to visit my parents again while they are still alive.
I also have various writing projects which are on hold and new ones that I want to undertake. One thing I would especially like to do leading up to May awareness is to publish a collection of poems and ideally to include some poems from other M.E. friends. Writing poetry has been a way for me to express my emotions and feelings along with my frustrations. Fortunately, I've been able to self publish my work. I'm very much aware that I'm not alone amongst those with M.E. who take to expressing their emotions through poetry and discover how it helps to cope with this illness. I would like to share some of their mazing talents either in my next book or to focus them in a blog.
MEMORIES
All we can take
with us
at the end of the day
are our memories
that never fade away
