New year, same me. On of my resolutions or intentions this year is to get off my ass and do more photography. As if last year’s fallow periods were my fault. Doesn’t matter, I still feel better when I’m making pictures. And part of that is getting rid of the backlog. So I’ve declared bankruptcy for anything that happened before new years day 2025 and moved on to things that happened last year. This was the first event I went to that I haven’t already blogged (I think I put up the NYE pics a while back).
A lot of people do year in review type things during this dead week between Christmas and new years, and, in short, 2025 was hard. I went from stage 4 to stage 5 renal failure, went on dialysis, had two surgeries, one for my Gall bladder and one to put in the dialysis port. I had to take a bunch of time off work for each of those, missed an important trip, and also had no energy from ~may until they got my iron deficiency taken care of in August. And then I broke both arms in September.
All that to say: it could be much worse. My work has unlimited PTO and both of my managers were very understanding of the various issues. I have really good health insurance, which covers 100% of my dialysis and transplant care. I have a lot of support, from Sophie and from all my friends. Finally: it’s still not scheduled, but I have a transplant in the works, so fingers crossed I may be able to close the books on all of this in a few months.
I think that’s it? Oh yeah, these specific pictures. Kawan’s birthday party, last year. A little over 10 months ago. House just packed with cool people, I didn’t get good coverage at all (note the only one sort of OK pic of the birthday boy). Still, these are nice, and I think reflect the feelings of the day.
