Cocodona--what can I say? I came. I DNF. I will be back.
I want to preface this with a couple things. I had some technical issues to try to get pics to load up. It just wouldn't work. I had 533 photos from the week. I had all the intentions of adding snipets of photos in videos, but it wouldn't work. Technology. This is long. It took me longer to write than I expected because I went through some emotions and revelations revealed during the writing and processing of it all. I had to take some breaks from writing because I was going into a dark, negative place. The disappointment I felt from not finishing was pretty massive. The aftermath of my medical issues complicated dealing with that disappointment. I am still feeling things that I didn't expect. I remind myself every time I feel that I failed; that I didn't. I did the best that I could under the circumstances. No matter the what-ifs, if only this, if I had done that, it would have come to the same ending. I got sick, I got ...