When I said in my last post that “I agreed to go see a real doctor so Jane would shut up about it,” I was just joking around. Jane has been an incredibly supportive and positive influence on me during what would have otherwise been an almost insurmountably difficult time.

Many of you have wondered what I was doing while I took a little break (was it really a month? I must have slept more than I thought) from blogging. The truth is, I’m not ready to go into it too deeply, though I plan to at some point.

Let’s just say, for now, that I now realize that my mother is alive, but that our relationship would be better if she weren’t.