Year's end
Dec. 31st, 2023 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resoluteHere is a Tumblr post with a few photos of my yard from 2023.
It snowed last night, not even an inch, but enough for 2024 to begin tomorrow morning with snow on the ground.
I don't have lists, I barely remember when things happened over the last year, but here we go --
2023 is the year that my spouse learned about oxymatrine, began taking it, and has now had an 80% reduction/remission of her CFS (which began on New Year's of 2021/22.) I do not think it is possible to express my ongoing wonder and gratitude that this has occurred.
I spent January-September of 2023 with a tracheostomy, which colored everything else during those months.
In January my mother had a health issue and emergency surgery for it. First my spouse, and then I flew down to stay with her for a few days. She recovered and is fine now.
Over the summer I rode my mobility scooter all over our neighborhood. I love the freedom it gives me.
We have begun the process of having our current garage/shed demolished and a new garage, workshop, storage, and Accessory Dwelling Unit built. Work will begin in spring 2024.
This is the year I got my official autism diagnosis paperwork.
In many ways it has been a year with a LOT going on. But at the same time, the days have much of a sameness to them, and it's hard to remember them as distinct each from the next. I read, I watch tv and movies, I cook, I knit, I watch Kpop content, I garden, I write, I learn other crafts, I play video games, I spend time with people. Aside from the medical stuff and the lack of travel, it's pretty much the retirement I had envisioned.
The worst year of my life so far was 2022. Any year that isn't 2022 is now considered a pretty good year.
It snowed last night, not even an inch, but enough for 2024 to begin tomorrow morning with snow on the ground.
I don't have lists, I barely remember when things happened over the last year, but here we go --
2023 is the year that my spouse learned about oxymatrine, began taking it, and has now had an 80% reduction/remission of her CFS (which began on New Year's of 2021/22.) I do not think it is possible to express my ongoing wonder and gratitude that this has occurred.
I spent January-September of 2023 with a tracheostomy, which colored everything else during those months.
In January my mother had a health issue and emergency surgery for it. First my spouse, and then I flew down to stay with her for a few days. She recovered and is fine now.
Over the summer I rode my mobility scooter all over our neighborhood. I love the freedom it gives me.
We have begun the process of having our current garage/shed demolished and a new garage, workshop, storage, and Accessory Dwelling Unit built. Work will begin in spring 2024.
This is the year I got my official autism diagnosis paperwork.
In many ways it has been a year with a LOT going on. But at the same time, the days have much of a sameness to them, and it's hard to remember them as distinct each from the next. I read, I watch tv and movies, I cook, I knit, I watch Kpop content, I garden, I write, I learn other crafts, I play video games, I spend time with people. Aside from the medical stuff and the lack of travel, it's pretty much the retirement I had envisioned.
The worst year of my life so far was 2022. Any year that isn't 2022 is now considered a pretty good year.