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Starting Over

  • Writer: Phoenix McDonald
    Phoenix McDonald
  • Aug 12, 2024
  • 1 min read

Recreating from scratch seems to be a recurrng theme in my life. I've had to become someone new multiiple times when disaster has struck, whether it was an illness, an accident, or anything that forced me to leave myself behind and learn to find a new way to be who or what I needed to be.

I'll stop for a moment and explain that you'll notice a lot of typos and missed words. I do the best I can to edit myself and catch the mistakes. I'm honest about the cancerous brain tumor I have and the damage that was caused during the last surgery I had in 2022. The only thing I hoped for was to not have my ability to type not be affected; and I have hemiparesis. This means I have weakness in the entire right side of my body, including my right hand. I have gone from my previous 85 wpm to an untested slower speed with many mistakes.

It's just another part of learning to rise up from being brought down. It is what we must do when life gives us a bumpy ride. It is what I have learned to do. I chose the name Phoenix for myself when I changed my name legally just for that reason!

Now I am writing the first blog post on my new website. It is not my first website but just my new one. My hope is that I will keep this one going--I;m not sure what happened with the last one. Imay have missed a subscription update, although I thought it was on automatic renewal. Anywho, here we go again!

 
 
 

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