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What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Kristi Hudecek-Ashwill This is a good question. Thank you for asking.

Life itself is a great mystery. Why are we here? What is our purpose? How did we get here? Why do thing…moreThis is a good question. Thank you for asking.

Life itself is a great mystery. Why are we here? What is our purpose? How did we get here? Why do things happen the way they do? Everybody has asked those questions at one time or another and philosophers have been trying to figure it out for centuries.

I think the biggest mystery to me is, what happened to make me the way I am? Why do I have a disability that no doctor can put a name to? Why did I lose an eye to cancer? These were life-changing events. They turned my life upside down and made me sit back and re-evaluate how I was living and re-prioritize.

I will share this and hope that it helps to answer your question. I was pregnant with my first child and in the third trimester, I started having serious balance problems. After the birth, I didn't bounce back like I should have. I told my OB that I was having problems and he put me on some medicine. It wasn't helping at all. Meanwhile, I was afraid to carry my newborn son because I was falling down all the time and I didn't want to drop him or hurt him in any way. My husband had to carry him everywhere for me.

We had a second son fourteen months after the first one. Now, I have two kids who are in diapers and need bottles. I was able to do things for them but my condition continued to deteriorate. I wasn't going to be carrying these boys anywhere. That was heartbreaking to me. I could feed them, rock them, do sit-down mommy things. I could play on the floor with them.

As the grew into toddlerhood (I made up that word), they were doing typical toddler things. They were into things, exploring, just learning about the world. I was able to keep up with them as long as I didn't have to carry them. But now we have a new thing. We need to go into stores and safely cross parking lots. I didn't have the balance to walk solo and hold their hands. That crushed me like nothing else. To this day, I have never held their hands to cross a parking lot or to go anywhere. That stands to reason since they are teenagers now. They don't need me to.

My stated dream in life was that I wanted to have two boys and I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom. I wasn't counting on the disability making it happen. I was angry with God and was suicidal. I didn't understand why all of this was happening. I've got these two precious little boys who need a mother that can keep up with them. They don't need "this".

Then I had an epiphany. I'm not a religious person but I am a spiritualist. It took years for me to comprehend but it hit me like a ton of bricks and I've been okay with it ever since. I got the kids I wanted; I got to stay at home and watch them grow up and help them along the way, but it came with a price. It was like God said, "I'll give you these boys and let you stay at home with them. But if I don't give you the disability, you will be out working a job like you were before. You will miss them growing up."

My disability is still without a name. What I do know is that it is progressive and degenerative. Would it make a difference if it had a name? Probably not. I've learned to adapt and to accept my limitations. It wasn't without trials and tribulations, but the process of getting okay with it was worth it.

I don't know if this has answered your question, but I hope it helped.

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It's been awhile since I've done anything on this site, but I haven't had anything to talk about until now.

My second novel, "Damaged" was released on February 7, 2019 by Winmarleigh Publishing. It's the longest novel I've ever written...well, okay. Not written. I've written longer ones that won't leave my desk. My point is it's a lengthy novel at 521 pages on Kindle and 625 pages in pap Read more of this blog post »

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Kristi’s Quotes

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

tags: humor, religion

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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

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“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed

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“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

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