Reveal.

[snitchnipped]

Yes, I know, I know. It's been since, what, 2013 since I posted?

I have reasons!

Once I returned from Down Under at around May and June of last year, I got super-duper distracted by a rather pesky (horrible) staph infection. Yeah, that I had apparently been suffering from for a loooong time (even while in Australia). My immunity was shot (which is why I got 2 colds in 4 months... 3 years since my previous one!) and I just felt crummy--bad skin, nausea, etc. And then I somehow aggravated the infection and, well, I blew up.

Well, not literally... but I had NO IDEA that there were that many lymph nodes in the human body. And how much pain that could cause.

Long, stupid story short: antibiotics suck, allergic to the one that *may* have helped me, severely underprescribed ones that did not work, but made me sicker, went to acupuncture (AMAZING), system got a bit overloaded in the meantime, developed food sensitivities out of no where, skin blew up more (ever have your entire face ooze? That was my Christmas vacation).

AND, my acupuncturist said "We're starting over!" and put me on the most amazing food cleanse that cleared out everything. ALL OF IT. And slowly, the original infection went completely away, no meds, just cleaned diet. No alcohol, no caffeine, no sugar for a month. I extended it to 5 months because I felt like it. Was it fun? No. But neither is fully body lymph pain.

Now? I'm better than I was before. Immunity is back up to par. I can now be around sick people and not get sick. Food sensitivities went away (yay tomatoes! yay spinach!) (except for corn... I learned that clogs my sinuses and makes my skin itchy) My skin is clearer than ever. Lost a handful of unexpected pounds with the cleanse, too, and kept them off! I'm finally HUMAN again after a good 18 months. It's like they say... food is medicine, and you are what you eat.

Anyway. That's my story. It sucked and now it doesn't suck anymore.

BUT NOW TO THE GOOD STORIES. THE NFE EXCHANGE!

I had a wonderful Helen and Frank love story written for me: the future eyes us sideways by be_themoon.

And I also had a Madness story, too! Another Frank and Helen one! :D The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face.

Please, go read these fantastic stories! I love me some Frank and Helen.

And then I wrote The Ambassador, which I, of course, made a part of my Dichotomy Universe. It appears my recipient went AWOL though... I hope someday they discover it and like it! The prompt that they gave me was RIGHT up my alley.

That being said, it's really just a small section of a story I have outlined out which is intended to be the sequel to the Big Bang story I wrote a few years back (which I am overhauling before I post on ff.net and AO3). But hopefully I can tackle that entire saga...eventually!

All for now...

Comments

[autumnia]

Welcome back! And wow, you returned with such a terrific fic on the NFE. I read it before the reveals but hadn't had time to comment yet but when I saw the name "Ferrin", I knew it sounded familiar and had to search through LJ to figure out which writer it was. :-)

The story was awesome, by the way. I don't really go for ships but I really liked your Peridan/Susan relationship here. And I feel so bad for them both, having feelings for each other but not admitting to it because of protocol, etc. What makes it even worse was that by accepting the ambassadorship role, Peridan gets the rewards he needs if he wants to be closer to Susan but alas, six years is a long time and the Pevensies will be gone from Narnia by then. (And I still love how your Susan remembers England when no one else does.)

Now, I'm more interested in seeing the relationship between these two when Susan and Edmund visit Tashbaan in HHB.

And wow, you've had such a rough year. I'm glad to hear you're feeling all better too. Sometimes, I think I do need to do a food cleanse but it's so hard to give things up (I've already been to a few Chinese doctors who told I should not be eating a bunch of stuff that I really, really love. Sigh.)

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're back and firing on all cylinders. :) I didn't feel too badly for Susan and Peridan, since surely they'll have lots of chances to meet; he'll have to come back for six-monthly reports, won't he? And the most important part - each of them has got the strong message that they care - is settled; now all they have to do is organise!
And yes, NFE was terrific. And interesting how many cross-currents there were between stories - Polly and Digory featured strongly this year! (And Frank and Helen and the Tree of Protection - it was the year of TMN!) I missed the NFE write-ins that you ran last year, though; they were great fun. :) 2015, maybe?