Hello New Friends! (And Love to All my Established Friends as Well)

[nightfox]

So, I made some lovely new friends thanks to fuckyeah's friending meme. First, let me say that was a wonderful idea! Second, *hugs* to all my new friends, *double hugs* to all the friends I already have.

I'm so excited to have made so many new friends so quickly, I definitely should have done one of these memes before but I kind of tend to lurk sometimes.

So this is sort of an introduction but also sort of a way to ease some of you in to my personal brand of insanity. Right now my life is a bit...odd. Due to an auto accident I was in about 2 years ago, I sustained some pretty severe injuries to my spine and left shoulder. I don't tell you this as a means to garner sympathy but really as more of a heads-up kind of thing.

I had my second spinal fusion (and 8th spinal procedure over-all) just last week. This means that while I live in the Eastern US, my sleep/wake cycle is a tad bit skewed due to lots and lots of medications. (They had to cut a piece of bone out of my hip to use as a wedge between vertebrae and man does that hurt!) So, if I take a little time responding to some of your entries or comments, it's probably because I am sleeping or otherwise incapacitated by my pain meds.

This is quite a drastic change from my usual life-style because (as you might have noticed from the title of my LJ) I am usually a severe insomniac and have been since I hit puberty. So you can figure once I'm weaned off the meds (and that will be as fast as I can tolerate it!) that I'll be back to haunting the internet at all hours of the night and day.

As for me, I am an entirely too wide open book. If you have anything you're curious about, feel free to ask me. I love to connect with people in every form of communication there is. I am, most definitely, a people person :D

(Oh, and if for some reason you stark to poke around my fan fiction, don't let the dark stories scare you off, despite my tendency to write some seriously dark themes, I'm really not that scary a person, crazy? yes, scary? no!)

Comments

[quixotic-crush.livejournal.com]

Hi! I know what it's like to have back pain. I have deteriorating discs in my back. I had a spinal fusion in 2010. Be careful with those pain meds. I started to get dependent on them and had to ween myself off. Talk about not being able to sleep, and I had the craziest dreams!!! My dreams are pretty strange already, but the withdrawals made them downright crazy.

Good luck with your recovery. I look forward to getting to know you. If you're interested I have an about me post I did last year. I've updated it recently so it's current. :)

[k-nightfox.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I am being careful about the pain drugs. I had a spinal fusion last year and managed to wean myself off the narcotics and the valium without any problems. I was just taking Motrin and Flexeril with just an occasional percocet when the pain got bad but then the pain started getting really bad again and it turned out my second fusion failed and I needed to go back under the knife. So that means I'm back on the narcotics and the valium for a while. It will be as short a while as I can make it.

[tambear13.livejournal.com]

First off, Hello! Really nice to meet you.

Secondly, Crazy person, you say? - I think I'll love you!

Thirdly, you poor thing - that is horrific! I'm fully in favour of being able to regenerate our bodies when extreem trauma happens, would make everything so much easier!
I'm a bit of an insomniac myself, does my head in sometimes but mostly I enjoy the overthetop thoughts that burst into my head when I've been awake for far too long.

*hugs*

[k-nightfox.livejournal.com]

I enjoy the overthetop thoughts that burst into my head when I've been awake for far too long.

So do I! That's why I call insomnia both a bitch and a blessing. I get my best ideas when I'm half-dead with exhaustion and can't sleep. I can't usually write them out until I nap a bit, but the ideas certainly come then.

[lolafeist.livejournal.com]

I adore you and your dark stories. <3

[k-nightfox.livejournal.com]

Aww! Thank you! You know I love all yours, you have a truly fine gift for the darker themes. Hell, you have a mighty fine gift for any theme I've seen you tackle. Words love you.

[jissai1988.livejournal.com]

Glad to make your aquataince nightfox :)

Though, those dark stories do make me worry about you.

[k-nightfox.livejournal.com]

Haha! Like any of this is news to you ;-)

You'd worry yourself silly if I stopped writing my dark stories! Which honestly is very unlikely to ever happen.

[slightlytookish]

I hope you feel better very soon!

[k-nightfox.livejournal.com]

Thanks, bb! I am already starting to feel better. Give me a few more weeks and I'm sure you'll all be sick of me ;-)

[hardticket.livejournal.com]

Totally and completely scary. I'm shaking in my non-existant boots.

[k-nightfox.livejournal.com]

Well, I could be you know! In highschool people were scared of me cuz I dressed in black, was quiet and never looked anyone in the eye. Apparently I looked intimidating but really, I was just terribly short-sighted and sick of thinking people who weren't waving at me were. So I just sort of looked through people and poof! I was a scary bitch!

[bizarre-esque.livejournal.com]

I hope you'll feel better very soon, hon! ♥