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November 2024 Updates, Health Issues
11 months ago
Hope everyone is doing well,
For the last year I have been struggling with health issues on and off. This September everything came to a head; I had a very frightening episode and since I've been going under rigourus medical testing. I had to withdraw from my college classes and I am currently unable to work.
I have good days and bad days and on my good days I love getting out and taking photos when I can. I haven't been uploading consistently for a while now. My condition worsened in October of 2023 and it has been an uphill battle with the hill becoming steeper and steeper. Now I feel like I'm climbing a dune. Every day is a fight and every night it has been scary to sleep.
Luckily me and my medical team are onto something and I have some testing coming up that will hopefully get to the bottom of my condition. It has been especially hard because since the initial episode in September; my ailmient has been some kind of freak-of-nature mystery. It greatly affects my life and ability to function but I'm only grasping at what I think helps on a day to day bases. The days that are really bad are very scary. I found myself in the emergency room twice in one week at the beggining of all of this. I have been fortunate to find little things that help to keep it under control for now.
I've been cruising through my photo backlog and feeling like maybe I can start to post again. For me, orgainzing my photos and editing feels like a chore. I don't enjoy it. I much prefer being out in nature and getting the shots to sitting at a computer. I have seen this time of my life, where I can hardly do anything, as a return to self and exploration of my creativity. I'm a writer and traditional artist as well as a photographer and I'm trying to reclaim that. Trying to get through each dreary, Michigan fall day has been tinted with shades of hope; a lot of good has come out of this.
As always, thanks to you all who have been sticking around. I'll try to post when I can. My SD cards and photos are in dissaray. I find it hard to organize everything between two cameras (my beefy macro machine and my little, bush-whacking camera with awesome zoom). My partner has, not only been my rock through all of this, but she has been taking care of me when I'm down for the count. She has been taking me to my appointments and working from home to keep an eye on me.
Thank you for your continued support,
Cam
For the last year I have been struggling with health issues on and off. This September everything came to a head; I had a very frightening episode and since I've been going under rigourus medical testing. I had to withdraw from my college classes and I am currently unable to work.
I have good days and bad days and on my good days I love getting out and taking photos when I can. I haven't been uploading consistently for a while now. My condition worsened in October of 2023 and it has been an uphill battle with the hill becoming steeper and steeper. Now I feel like I'm climbing a dune. Every day is a fight and every night it has been scary to sleep.
Luckily me and my medical team are onto something and I have some testing coming up that will hopefully get to the bottom of my condition. It has been especially hard because since the initial episode in September; my ailmient has been some kind of freak-of-nature mystery. It greatly affects my life and ability to function but I'm only grasping at what I think helps on a day to day bases. The days that are really bad are very scary. I found myself in the emergency room twice in one week at the beggining of all of this. I have been fortunate to find little things that help to keep it under control for now.
I've been cruising through my photo backlog and feeling like maybe I can start to post again. For me, orgainzing my photos and editing feels like a chore. I don't enjoy it. I much prefer being out in nature and getting the shots to sitting at a computer. I have seen this time of my life, where I can hardly do anything, as a return to self and exploration of my creativity. I'm a writer and traditional artist as well as a photographer and I'm trying to reclaim that. Trying to get through each dreary, Michigan fall day has been tinted with shades of hope; a lot of good has come out of this.
As always, thanks to you all who have been sticking around. I'll try to post when I can. My SD cards and photos are in dissaray. I find it hard to organize everything between two cameras (my beefy macro machine and my little, bush-whacking camera with awesome zoom). My partner has, not only been my rock through all of this, but she has been taking care of me when I'm down for the count. She has been taking me to my appointments and working from home to keep an eye on me.
Thank you for your continued support,
Cam
