I am an author of poems, memoir and essays, and I've written short stories in the past. For the past three years I've been plagued by a series of serious illnesses that has changed my life completely. I was unable to write or paint during this period. Only now do I have the ability and desire to start again. Being ill can be a full time job.
In December of 2014 I moved to Naples FL from NYC with the help of my son. I was still recovering from a severe case of MRSA from bilateral knee replacements that had gone wrong. My prosthetic knee had been replaced with concrete spacers and I wore a metal brace to keep my leg straight. I was unable to walk. So with my bad leg and good son we made it here. At the end of January 2015 I had another surgery to put a prosthetic knee back in and resumed physical therapy in order to learn how to walk again. But that was not to be the end of my physical trials and tribulations. How much one can endure depends on how one meets each and every challenge thrown his or her way.