Susan Pogorzelski

My dad and I sat on black and silver chairs in a tiny brick house two hundred miles away from home and listened to my doctor discuss adding a natural supplement to my standard Lyme Disease treatment. I watched as he drew sketches on his clipboard to show how the supplement breaks through the biofilm that the bacteria creates--yet one more method of protecting itself in order to survive and evade antibiotics--in order to kill more of what has tried to kill me. I watched, a gro

Lately I've been feeling...I don't know what I'm feeling. I don't know if I can put it into words. I'm a mix of revolving emotions, one rotating into the next depending on the day and how I'm feeling as I struggle through this illness, as I fight my way back to purpose and happiness. Currently, I'm somewhere between accepting that this is my life right now--days spent resting and writing as I heal my body and mind--and wishing for something--everything--more. I'm a dreamer.