10/21/2026
Today would normally be a really happy day for me. Six years in business. I’d be posting about how grateful I am for this little business I’ve built, another wedding season, and all the things I’m excited about for the year ahead.
But this year looked very different.
In January, I thought I had COVID. I went to bed thinking I just needed to sleep it off. The next thing I knew, I was waking up in the hospital after being in a coma, with a tube in my mouth and unable to walk. I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes and rhabdomyolysis. I couldn’t move the right side of my body, and for a month I needed dialysis, test after test, and help doing things I had never thought I’d need help with. And honestly, I was scared. I wondered if I’d ever walk normally again. If I’d be able to work. If I’d ever pick up my camera and feel like myself again. I also realized just how loved I am. To my mom, my sister, my family, and my friends, thank you will never be enough. Thank you for sitting with me, checking on me, listening to me cry, making me laugh, advocating for me, and helping me when I couldn’t help myself. And to every doctor, nurse, PT, OT, and healthcare worker who cared for me thank you for helping me get back to myself, one tiny step at a time. Somewhere in all of this, I had to learn to trust God and others in a way I never had before. I was scared. I was angry. I was exhausted. But I kept praying. I kept taking the next step. And somehow, God kept meeting me there. I went from not being able to walk to walking again. From being terrified of my future to actually being excited about it again. I’m still healing. I’m still figuring things out. But I’m here. So today, I’m celebrating six years of business a little differently. I’m celebrating that I will get to pick up my camera again. That I will get to create. That I get to tell stories. That I get to be here. Six years of business. One really, really hard year. So many people who loved me through it. And a whole lot of grace. I don’t know what this next year will look like, but I’m trusting God with whatever comes next.
