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Well, its been 1 year and 3 months since I last submitted a story but today I have finally managed to finish and submit one!
Thank you to everyone for their support, especially
and 
for their suggestions which helped me to get started. Here's hoping that, with one submitted, inspiration might just come creeping back.
Thank you to everyone for their support, especially
and for their suggestions which helped me to get started. Here's hoping that, with one submitted, inspiration might just come creeping back.
Inactive
Edit: My account is now inactive - I am leaving the account in place but it is no longer monitored. Please enjoy my work, feel free to use the stock resources. My work is not to be used for AI purposes. Be well, be kind. Caz. I've been contemplating this for a while and kept holding off doing so but it's time for me to be honest with myself. I've lost all interest in DiD, in writing and even in DA. It's not any one thing that's causing the apathy, it's a combination of things - losing David (who was my main inspiration and motivator to write), limited free time (I work full time, I commute and I have commitments at home). It's hard to work up any enthusiasm to write when you've already spent several hours in front of a screen at work. I also have other interests which right now, I gain more enjoyment and relaxation from. On top of this, I've been unhappy with DA for some time; changes to the site, problems with the site (just typing this has been a fight), the way writers are
I'm still around...kinda
I thought I should put up an update, since I've largely been absent for a while. Firstly, hello to my new watchers, and thank you to whoever gifted me a month's core membership; it came up as anonymous so I can't thank you directly. Thank you too for all the faves; I'm so glad you are enjoying my stories. So, what's been happening: To start with, my motivation to write has tanked completely. I have ideas for stories but am struggling to join up these ideas into a coherent story and right now just can't find the energy to write. I've been having a rough time for the last few months. Work has been relentless (I work on a mental health ward) since we started to come out of the pandemic and we've been running at full capacity for most of the last year and a bit. Over the last few months, we've had a couple of covid outbreaks to deal with (the last one quite nasty but thankfully staff and patients came through okay). We've had to deal with a staff shortage, both on the ward and
So far behind....
I'm sorry I haven't been around for a while and I know I have a massive backlog of messages/art to go through, but it's been a bit of a rough period and I needed a time-out. As many of you know, I work for the NHS in England, on a mental health unit. It's been a rough pandemic for us all; staff and patients alike. We lost patients, some staff have moved on and sadly one colleague, who almost died from covid early into the pandemic, took her own life earlier this year. She'd been suffering with long covid and had to change her job role because she was no longer well enough to manage on the ward, but we all thought she was happy and doing well in her new job. We don't know why she took her own life but we all miss her infectious humour and the support she gave us all. Rest in peace, Dee. We miss you. We all said that people's mental health would suffer uner the pandemic and we have been seeing it first hand; dementia patients who have been isolated for so long they think their
Quick Update
So, as you may have read in my brother's journal https://www.deviantart.com/diabloart316, I unexpectedly ended up in hospital on the early hours on Easter Sunday. Turns out I had a raging infection (we neve figured out what caused it), and my bowel had kinked (not for the first time but many years since it required admission to hospital). Thankfully it unravelled itself and I feel a lot better, just very tired. Also found out my diabetes was a mess (not unexpected given the last couple of years has been a major stress and I dropped the ball). I have a new treatment regime and will be seeing a consultant so this time will have a lot more support to keep it under control. So, they let me come home today, my boss very kindly picked me up and brought me home. I need rest, sleep and am taking it steady. At least the enforced rest means I can catch up with my mesages. Of course, as I come home, Paul has gone into hospital (this was a planned admission). He's having his fistula
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