New Blog Site, Who Dis?

Guys, guess what? I updated my blog!

To be honest, the main reason for the site revamp is that my previous website started acting glitchy and I just couldn't deal anymore. But, I am also in the process of a way bigger overhaul.

For a long time in the recent past, I felt stuck. I felt like my life wasn't moving. At first, I didn't have the energy or motivation to change. But as I started to get help with my depression and started to feel better, then I was eager to start moving forward. But, I still felt stuck and like I was spinning my wheels.

But lately, I finally feel like my life is starting to move again. I'm starting to see changes and forward momentum in my life and it feels really good.

I have started to create a plan for my future. I have realized that there are things that I want to make sure that I do or that I return to and one of those things is sharing my COVID story and connecting with the community.

I really missed it. I felt like it gave purpose to all the suffering that I had been through. More importantly, it made me feel like I wasn't alone. I wanna feel that togetherness and sense of purpose again. I also feel like I still have a story to tell and a place in this space.

So I've been working on it. A new plan forward. Honestly been working on it for months now. But, one the lessons that I have had to learn over the last few years is that things happen slowly when you have long covid, especially when you have long covid with M.E.(myalgic encephalomyelitis). My fellow sufferers and I learned to call it "LC" time.

I complained about it once in previous years. I wrote that one of the most frustrating things about long covid and ME specifically is that I can still do basically all the things I used to do. I just can't do them at the speed that society wants it at. Which, by the way, is a speed that helps neither disabled nor able-bodied people. But, more on that later.

That is the main reason why this has been a plan that's taken shape over months. But, another reason is that I want to make slow and deliberate moves in order to be more organized and intentional.

When I first started my blog, I didn't really know what I was I was doing. I had been sharing on my personal page on Facebook and just knew that as time went on and I was still having complications with COVID, I needed a separate place to talk about it all.

Then, with time, I came to realize that I didn't always have time to write blogs and that some things worked better with video. Then, my first attempt at a video was way too long and really clunky. Essentially, every step of the way in the beginning was a lot of me stumbling and trying to figure it out as I go.

I have learned a lot since then and I just don't want to fly by the seat of my pants anymore. I'm 5 years a longhauler now. This is now a space with a lot of fellow sufferers. In a lot of ways, the issues are still the same. But in a lot of ways, the discussion has grown far beyond where we were in the beginning, where we just wanted to make sure that we weren't going crazy. We wanted to know that there were other people out there who had similar symptoms and who were going through the same things.

There's a lot more to talk about these days and I'm ready to dive in and engage in the discussion with a now aged and more refined perspective.

So, welcome or welcome back to my blog and let's move forward together.