Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

You may or may not have noticed that the blog has been awfully quiet for about the past week. There have been no new posts and there has been no activity on Twitter. It was as though I was sucked into a large black social media hole.

It was also the same for me behind the keyboard and the reason for the social media absence. I get Ehlers Danlos flare-ups and it’s like my life is sucked into a void. It stops. I don’t get my laptop out. There are no words added to my manuscript. There are no blog posts, no tweets. My family don’t see me as I fester under a quilt of agony upstairs.

I have no interest in being sociable. I don’t care if that offends. All I’m interested in is the pain stopping and the gloom that comes with it and hovers over me, disappearing…