The Worm (re) Turns

It has been a long time since I have posted here, not because I have had nothing to say, but because a long series of stressful incidents swallowed my time and attention.  In the past 4 years my son has had a liver transplant (successful), the last shreds of my marriage to his mother have dissolved, my mother had a stroke which left her wheelchair bound and made speech difficult (I am her primary caretaker) and my place of employment has undergone radical changes, not for the better, and after a 6 month trial, I was not fired only by a compromise leaving me safely out of management but at reduced hours and pay.  I kept my job only because some people on The Collective recognized that depriving my son of health insurance could be a death sentence.  More on that another time.

My son's illness and mother's stroke both affected me strongly.  My weight went up and my health down.  It has been an interesting journey, during which I have discovered many things about myself and what I can or cannot do.  My health has returned, along with a great deal of knowledge about gluten, about metabolic syndrome, about my own strength.

I know there is nobody reading this blog these days, but if someone comes across it and decides to look back through the archives.  This is where I begin again.  <crosses fingers>