: About Me

After a relatively short seventeen years, I feel like I've already lived a life full. I've suffered from a constant headache for the last year and a half to the point that I felt compelled to leave school because I was so far behind. Please read my article, "The Pain," on this site.

Before getting ill I was in Drama in school. I would occasionally do community theater in my spare time. And an idea for a story simmered relentlessly in the back of my mind. While ill I was forced to focus my interests on things that didn't require a great deal of physical activity. The more physical the activity, the more severe the headache became. I ended up in the emergency room more than once just because I went out to eat with my family. So, I played video games, and read fantasy books. Even though the headaches kept me from getting too far along in any one of those activities, they would prove to be groundwork for what was to come.

Two operations later, I feel re-energized, like I'm starting all over again, yes, but, I'm starting fresh. I get a "do over." In a way I actually feel like it's an advantage. I know where a few of the pitfalls are, having stepped into a few. Now I'm finishing what I started before getting ill. I now can get back into doing community theater, which I enjoyed very much. It was an activity I could share with my dad and my sister, not to mention, it allowed me to stretch my imagination. I'm looking forward to the day a play comes along that my dad, my sister and I can do together.

I'm currently writing a fantasy trilogy about a boy forced to do something about a situation thrust upon him; sound familiar? I am holding down a job in a deli, which gives me an opportunity to interact and observe many different types of people. An activity helpful in both theater and writing. Plus, it will allow me to earn the money I need to continue my education in writing after I get my G. E. D.

I'm looking forward to having my life on track after suffering a derailment for far too long. Now, I feel like I will be able to overcome anything that may be an obstacle to what I truly want to do.

Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Pain

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Pain I am what some, in my family would call an expert on Pain, both physical and emotional. I am only seventeen years old and I have probably experienced more pain in one year than most will ever experience. For a year now I have had what is now called Cranial Neuralgia which put simply is a constant headache. And when I say constant I mean, you go to sleep with it and you wake up with it, there is no in between time. The more I did the more pain I was in. I couldn't play, joke, sing, or even laugh with out the pain getting incredibly worse. The pain would get so bad I would have to be ta...

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