09/15/2024
Long and sappy announcement...
One year ago today, an accident changed my life. I had put myself in a dangerous position to get a great shot of the football players running through the banner, and it went horribly wrong. A player (one of my favorite seniors 💙) didn't see me and ran into me as I was shooting. That was the beginning of the hardest year of my life. I had 3 surgeries on my eye and 11 methotrexate injections. I still don't have a lens in that eye (so no focus) but I am ok with that. I still very much believe everything happens for a reason, and I may be better off now because of it. God's Will be done.
I have been living in the cities for 3 months and I love it. I have a job with a bud I wouldn't trade for anything. Scott and Julissa are up here and I see them a lot more. I have met some special people that have helped me adjust to all these changes, and I am so thankful for them 💜. I have learned so much and grown in so many ways.
Part of this is I am retiring from photography for the most part in November. With the year I had, I lost my love for doing as much as I was. It has become overwhelming with all I have been dealt, and I have always had 2 jobs.
I am happy to say I am getting down to one job (nursing) and going to start taking better care of myself, my mental health 💚 and my loved ones 🩷. Of course there are things I will still shoot, but not many.
So I apologize for the long turn around times this year, (dance recitals) but mentally and physically I still have a very hard time sitting on my computer and editing pics. It's been like a painful mind block, but my goal is to have everything done by Halloween 🧡.
If you would humor me and share a fave pic of yours I have taken, that'd be fun for me 💛 Thanks for all your support in the last 8 years. It was a dream come true! But I am happy to be true to myself and go after what I want for the second part of my life ❤️
