I’m Ready to go Home

In a week, I’ll be back on American soil and I’m really, really looking forward to it. Being in Monterrey for a month has not been easy. I’m not here on vacation, but for my niece to receive treatment for her severe, anoxic brain injury. Her mood determines everyone else’s mood. She’s been tolerating treatments well and there’s been plenty of laughs, but we miss the family. Everyday is the same routine. We don’t speak the language so we can’t just do what we want when we want.

But everyone we’ve met has been incredibly friendly. The mountains are breathtaking and the view never becomes stagnant. The blueberries here are sweeter. Maddie is progressing in small, slow, and steady ways.

Specifically, the EEG tech, Patty, has been absolutely wonderful! She explained that each EEG has been better than the last, that she was a part of the double-blind study with Dr. Trujillo that really launched NeuroCytonix. And at a wonderful dinner, we were able to speak with Dr. Trujillo about Maddie and her treatment and the treatment overall. After speaking with him, we felt so much better and more sure about our next steps. One of the board members that spoke at the dinner said Dr. Trujillo was either falsifying data or in line for the Nobel Prize; there is no in between.

But when I get home, I want to:

start runningcook my own foodwrite moreread morelay out by the pool and get a tango swimmingact like I’m on vacationspend time with my nephewswatch movies with popcornsee “Insidious: The Red Door,” “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” “Mission Impossible: Fallout Part One,” “Barbie,” and “Oppenheimer” in theaters (but not necessarily in that order)enjoy not having to be anywhere at a certain timedrive

I also want to work on my *new* writing project. I think having something to work on/distract myself with will help ease the sting of so many rejections, one after the other. I’m going to keep at it (cue all the stories about writers literally rejected hundreds of times) and continue sending query letters to agents. My writing friends from Ireland have been so supportive and gracious, and I am so happy we’ve kept in touch.

I’m also debating a kind of pricey writer’s retreat for my 35th birthday. I’ll keep you updated xoxo

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