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Life turns on a Dime

Samuel Bennett

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July 20th, 2015 - 03:51 PM

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Life turns on a Dime

Not sure how much folks read blogs, esp. ones rarely updated such as mine!!! but I have been on an unexpected journey to hell and back. Well, almost back.
January 13th I was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma. I was in shock then and still am. at 58, I was gearing up for the photo season as well as looking forward to spending the next part of life traveling and watching my 2 grandsons grow up. Everett, 8+ and Grayson 2+. Everett is becoming his own person. I consider him a best friend as we share many of the same enjoyments. We have watched him grow from birth to his current age. We lived near our kids and so we spent a good part of everyday enjoying his growing up for the first 3 years. Grayson lives in Tucson and we have not seen him as much but we do Skype with him and the family regularly.
So still in a state of disbelief throughout the whole treatment process I have been gone for 8 months and am slowly redeveloping what the photography path is going to be. Much of what I am interested in, insects, flowers, the unseen worlds we tramp through everyday, requires a substantial amount of walking, bending down crawling around with nose to the ground looking for the unseen. Myeloma has made this very tough as my back has 2 collapsed vertebra. Collapsed, gone, crunched, flattened. And in pain I never knew existed keeps me tired and slow. I am using a cane to walk. Well, it's currently more of a stumble right now as the chemo severely affected the lower half of my body. This means for now, my activity is quite curtailed and for safety's sake I have to find someone who will move at a snails pace while I am taking pictures. What used to be a breeze now takes complete and utter concentration as well as mucho willpower. It takes me 4 times as long to get 1/2 of what I used to do done.
It may be a blessing in disguise to have to slow down so much. The reality of photographing the world of the small requires a good deal of patience. Perhaps the Myeloma will teach me that.
So I am slowly coming back online after 8 months and hope to be posting again in the next 3-6 months.

SRCB

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