In my other life….
October 20, 2011
…I have been running from breast cancer and losing both my father and my grandfather, all in the same year. I’m not ready for NaNo. Last year I miscarried a pregnancy, and my due date was November second, so when NaNoWriMo came around that year I wasn’t overly enthusiastic. After the miscarriage, I was diagnosed with Stage 0 breast cancer; I’d had my first mastectomy on October 6th and that hadn’t really left me in great shape either. Two weeks after last year’s NaNo– which I dropped out of to go see my family for Thanksgiving– drew to a close, my father literally dropped dead at work, his last words being, “Guys, I don’t feel so good.”
I’m not saying that NaNo is jinxed, but I am starting to develop a Pavlovian aversion to it.
So we’ll see what happens this year.
