It’s Sunday morning, and a pleasant day stretches ahead. I’ve got a bunch of projects planned: some writing, a much-needed cleanup of the ‘World HQ’ and moving my secret blog to a public URL. Michael Matze, our family counselor who has helped me through past difficulties, has encouraged me to work through current trials by writing about them, including commissioning an essay.

Michael’s a smart and capable counselor: the writing has been great therapy: a good way to start processing the many bewidering events that dropped abruptly into my life beginning 20 days ago. The secret blog is where I have, on the days of first seizures, ambulance rides, emergency rooms and scary diagnoses and procedures, just poured out the thoughts and feelings racing through my mind on each respective day as I began the struggle to cope with my newly-revealed path. It’s really helped to get things out, and down in a concrete way, as honestly as I can, and then to move on, one day at a time, one goal at a time on the best course I can find.

I used Firefox to export the blog quickly in a form I could publish on gulker.com. It lacks some of the pretty graphics et al seen on the LAN. Many links point to our firewalled, non-routable private network, so, of course are broken at the moment. I’ll try to doll it up a bit, but the important stuff is the thoughts and words, starting on October 9. Offered in the hopes that others who find themselves on similar paths will find some comfort in knowing that they are not alone (and feel free to drop me a line)…

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