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2011: A very, very brief review
Everyone's doing it, so I'll join the bandwagon.
2011 basically sucked for me. I won't lie. Any year that has an emergency hospital admission in the first month and the diagnosis of a severe chronic illness is never going to go well. I've spent most of the year on steroids and now take a ton of pills and injections to keep things at bay.
While the UC diagnosis did at least finally give me access to lots of help and doctors who are eager (and wonderful) carers for me, it did also make my life a bit more complicated and I ended up cancelling most of the trips and fun plans for the year due to flare-ups. When you add in all the things that I couldn't do due to my back, you end up with a year that did not have many trips or fun days out and consisted of a lot of hospital trips, tests, needles and bad news.
Thankfully the last six weeks has been better: I'm in remission (I hope, we need to discuss the recent stomach cramps in the new year) and my back has eased off a lot since late November.
I've written a bit during December, for the first time in months, and my Christmas has been so much better than last Christmas.
All of this gives me hope that 2012 is going to be a lot better than 2011. So here's to the end of a sucky year and the start of what will hopefully be a fantastic year!
2011 basically sucked for me. I won't lie. Any year that has an emergency hospital admission in the first month and the diagnosis of a severe chronic illness is never going to go well. I've spent most of the year on steroids and now take a ton of pills and injections to keep things at bay.
While the UC diagnosis did at least finally give me access to lots of help and doctors who are eager (and wonderful) carers for me, it did also make my life a bit more complicated and I ended up cancelling most of the trips and fun plans for the year due to flare-ups. When you add in all the things that I couldn't do due to my back, you end up with a year that did not have many trips or fun days out and consisted of a lot of hospital trips, tests, needles and bad news.
Thankfully the last six weeks has been better: I'm in remission (I hope, we need to discuss the recent stomach cramps in the new year) and my back has eased off a lot since late November.
I've written a bit during December, for the first time in months, and my Christmas has been so much better than last Christmas.
All of this gives me hope that 2012 is going to be a lot better than 2011. So here's to the end of a sucky year and the start of what will hopefully be a fantastic year!