Hey everybody!
I haven't posted for a while, as my focus has been completely on my new project: writing a book!
i got a book deal with a small press right after my last post (Fixodent and forget it). The book is set to come out in june. i imagine it'll be a paperback and a reasonable price. that's what i'm shooting for anyhow.
it's a book of humorous essays on illness, hospitals, doctors, drugs, and getting better. the book has some of the same topics as the blog, but it's going to be far more organized. and it won't have nearly as many typos and run-on sentences as my blog. but i promise to keep it sassy.
it's due this week!
i may be just a little late on the deadline because i have to just have the sense to stop when i'm exhausted. no need to create another volume of hospital stories by having another escapade with lupus. i don't deserve that much fun ;)
besides, after 3 times around with this thing, i think i have enough hospital horror stories.
i'll be tapping away on ym computer tonight, tomorrow, and beyond.
meanwhile, i've gone back to doing a little guitar teaching to keep some money coming in. i'm good at it, i enjoy it, and i'm glad to be back to it. i stopped when i moved to new jersey (you lose your students when you move...) and i just spent all my time on the road performing, which is a good way to run down you health.
if any of you have XM radio, check out all the great programs on the Oprah channel, XM 156. wow. so inspiring. i listen jsut about every day, usually to Dr Oz's show. if he were my doctor, i'd have a much higher opinion of the medical community.
well i better sign off for now. just wanted to jot something here so you'd know that no news was good news. i'm well, i'm taking my pills and vitamins, i'm going to the gym, and life is good!
2 comments:
Hello Carla, I've been catching up on several of your blog posts all at once - I wanted to wish you well for the book. I think it would have been a great handbook for me when I was first diagnosed. As opposed to The Doctor's Version, when you know they don't have lupus so how would they know? Don't you love how subversive we are as patients?! Right from the beginning there's a part of us that Knows Best.. do you think it's because lupus patients are usually women? :)
It's been 12 years now... you're right, we do sound like Alcoholics Anonymous! (I just watched 'Things We Lost in the Fire' and it has the Serenity Prayer running through it like a theme). Great film, my mother cried right through it, but I toughed it out. I didn't cry once!
Peace,
Shaista
Well what a relief! I was indeed imagining the worst. Congratulations on your new found health and best wishes for the work of writing the book. Looking forward to reading it! I'm just getting caught up too on your blog. When your website first comes up, it's shielded with a notice saying that it's locked, and I'm asked for a password. I just finally figured out to hit "cancel", and can get right in. So glad to find you not only alive, but well(!!).
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