As 2017 came to a close, I wrote down several goals for the
new year, and I went so far as to write in my calendar the things I was going
accomplish each of the first seven days of 2018, so I could start the new year
with a bang, and dive right into achieving all my various goals.
Now, before I continue, I must point out that as I wrote
those goals, my left knee was bothering me a little bit. I didn’t think much of
it, because I have arthritis in that knee, and it is cold out, it is winter
after all. So, the minor pain was no big deal, and I could live with it.
I even mentioned that little twinge to my doctor when I had
my regular checkup at the end of December, but by the first day of 2018 it was
way more than a twinge and my knee was the size of small melon. I’d also spiked
a fever on the 31st. Okay I wasn’t feeling well, and by the 3rd
I went back to my doctor’s office.
That was not a fun day since my doctor wanted to “rule out”
a blood clot, he sent me to the hospital to get an ultrasound on my knee, while
at the same time he ordered antibiotics for me.
Thankfully, the ultrasound came back that there were no
blood clots, and the antibiotics have done their job. But in the meantime, I
had to stay off my knee as much possible.
It should have been prime writing, or editing time, except,
I didn’t want to think. I didn’t want to work. I didn’t feel well. So, while
nothing got done around here, not one item on my extensive to do list, I sat
around and read. Some of it books (I did read HP 1 – 5, and even started 6), but
most of what I did was read a great many of my unfinished manuscripts. And I
mean read, as in no editing and no adding to, just reading.
Not the auspicious start I had hoped for, and now I’m
behind, but I have the rest of the year to work on my goals.
Happy writing everyone.
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