This blog, my blog, was started in 2006. Since that first date, i have been posting regularly not missing more than a few days here and there, maybe a week tops. Never a month or two. Whenever i do something, i give it my all and that includes my blog. So you can imagine it must have taken something dramatic to cause me to stop blogging. I had headaches off and on for the last year but starting in August, i had head pains. Not migraines but head pains. They started as painful moments and grew into every waking moment. Pain so severe that i could no longer concentrate, no longer think properly.
After many doctor visits & specialists, i have been diagnosed with Trigeminal Neuralgia. I can honestly tell you it's the worst pain i have ever felt in my life and i have experience kidney infections, natural childbirth, and kidney surgery. While Trigeminal Neuralgia has no cure, the pain can be managed. The longer the pain goes on undiagnosed, the harder it is to get under control. This is what i have been facing the last 6 months.
I tried so hard to keep on creating and keep on writing my blog posts. Finally my body broke down. Pain so excruiating that i could only get out of bed to move to the couch for these last two months. I didn't turn on my computer and left all my social media silent while i tried to deal with my pain. Finally the pain is starting to receed a little bit through a combination of both conventional & alternative medicine. Some days the pain is still debilitating but other days I have moments of clarity, of less pain.
So here i am again. i thought of you all so very often, wishing i had the energy to be here with you. i hope you will be patient with me as i continue to heal. Patient as i resurrect my blog posts, begin creating again, reveal my new stencils on here, and answer many, so many emails.
Sending you my love,
