What do you do with a blog that is based on a part of your life that is now in the past? That is to say, I started this blog 7 years ago to “put out there” my story. it was quite a story. It began as a lamentation of a life that crashed and burned all around me, my reconciliation with my new situation, the battle against an insidious enemy, in this case illness, some thinly veiled autobiographical fiction concluded by a triumphant victory as I beat my illness and began reclaiming my life. It must have been a good story because I had a lot of readers. Many were encouraged, perhaps even inspired by my story. I know this because they told me so.
Then I got better. I told the story of my 2nd Transplant and the incredible series of events that led to it. I told the tale of my recovery and all that went into it. Then I lost you. Almost all of you. I still have some faithful readers and I would never minimize them and their kind interactions, but clearly I lost something.
Perhaps it’s the medium of blogging that is losing interest. Podcasts seem to be all the rage now. But it’s more likely that I had lost my edge and my story did as well.
This blog, to this point, only tells half of my actual story. What I have been reluctant to tell is what I have done since reclaiming my health. My goal all along was to get my life back. You all first met me when I was broke, sick and living in mom’s basement. I was divorced, angry, resentful, sad, heartbroken and far from those people and places that used to be my life. My period of illness was going to be one of two things. That period leading up to my eventual demise or the chapter before this one. The first could have happened but didn’t. Life gave it a hell of a try, but I lived. The second one is right now. This is the chapter in which I get it all back and more.
I want to tell you THAT story. And I want to do it like Superman, my former alter-ego did. With total transparency and in-your-face brutal honesty.
I’m here to tell you that the Sick guy is gone. Wait til you see what the Healthy guy has been up to.
The Tao of Bill 