I'm sorry for the years long absence, but a lot has happened to me. My mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and I spent most of the 2010s along with my family as primary caregivers. She passed on in 2015 and me and my mother were very close, so her passing hit me very hard. I fell into a very deep and dark depression where I was really just existing. Last year, I passed out during a cardiac stress test and they rushed me to the hospital where I had to have double bypass surgery and have a heart valve replaced. They had to open me up a second time to stop internal bleeding. I almost didn't make it. It took me about a year to recover--took me about four months before I could walk again unassisted. But, now, I'm feeling the joy of living, I've accepted my mother's passing--she's no longer suffering from that horrible disease, and I've lost about seventy pounds. My creative juices have also been reawakened--I think it might have something to do with learning just how precious life is. So, I'm rewriting and reworking Blood Cries--I don't want to post until I get it either nearly done or done, and I'm also working on new Sutherland, Lexington, and Perseus stories as well as finishing stories that I need to finish--top priority goes to finishing stories.. So, it's good to be back and take the time to smell the roses--life is a wonderful thing.
