disconnected
I have been disconnected. My world has not slowed down and has been quick to move forward. It's a weird experience when you lose people in your life or when a bunch of trauma happens all at once and rather than processing it you rush through it all because there is no time. That is what I have been feeling. I had a lot of awful happen all at once. My beautiful and amazing aunt Kathy, my other mother, died and then my father had a traumatic accident (6-inch laceration to his face), and then another illness followed by my other uncle going in for brain surgery due to a traumatic fall (he had a brain bleed) and then... to top it all off our household ended up with Norwalk. We have had no time to process anything and as we come out of this illness I am feeling it all. I feel the stress slip a bit and I feel the numbness creep away. I feel it now. The disbelief that she is gone... hearing people talk about such a fiery and vivacious person seems like the world is off its axis. It...