Downhill. Everything has gotten worse since last I posted, I'm sorry to report. I've been really sick, missing a lot of work, which hits hard financially, and also had a sexual assault by a friend who was staying with us temporarily since he moved out here from Texas. I've been handling that okay, I think, but the stress of it and all the emotions gave me an ulcer and can't be helping the other things. I'm coming up on the anniversary of the worst times in my life, the hospital last year, my cousin's suicide, etc, on top of the yearly Seasonal Affective Depression. Holy shit. I feel maxed out in every way and out of reserves. I can't say I have ever felt this low and run down. It's like I'm playing a really hard video game and all my health/power bars are down to almost nothing. Really. To Nothing. So I have decided to concentrate as hard as I can and play this game to win, without distraction. I am taking time off work, because
I have bad health problems. I don't think it's because I'm fat, but rather the other way around. I have an unnamed, undesignated autoimmune disease that has caused all kinds of fun symptoms from anisocoria to extreme fatigue to dizziness to joint degeneration to headaches to muscle pain and now most recently to inflamed eyes and vision loss. I have a leaky heart valve and an arrhythmia. They found over twenty tumors in my breasts back in February, and though thank god they weren't cancerous, they are a concern. My mother has/had breast cancer which spread to her lymphatic system, was diagnosed fairly young, and they want to remove my breasts. I am in pain every single day, some days to where I don't know how to get through. Just now I had a bout of arrhythmia which was really hard to shock myself out of and back into rhythm. (I did, of course, before passing out or needing an ambulance, etc.) But it scared me. I want to stay here. Even if it means