Back From Another Crises

First of all, I will update the ticker. Now it's only been a 5 days since my last admission, bummer---what a way to start the year. But I'm not going to gripe about it, such is the lot in my life. Everyone has their burden to bear.

Last year I had 3 major hospitalizations, actually, it was a better year than before. It's just that I still feel like I can do better. For the last 3 years, I've been getting a crises in January like clockwork, I almost expected it this time, even though my timeline wasn't right on the 3-4 month mark yet. At least this means I'm good until May...I hope I'll skip the March Madness crises.

This year I start with just one. I'm going to take better care of myself, rest, eat right, exercise and drink my Arginine like it's the elixir of life. I have to kick this sickle cell this year because I have so much planned, my wedding, my trip to Nigeria and then all the plans on the new house. I don't even want to be sick anymore, I feel like it's such a waste of my energy.

Yeah, waste of energy. It doesn't make sense but it is, being sick drains me and everytime I fall sick I feel like I have to start back up again from the ground up with work, life and routines. I feel like I get a good groove going, a regular life cycle and then with every crises everything shuffles all over again.

Enough melancholy. Thanks for your lovely emails and kind thoughts. We are all in this together.

Happy New Year everyone.