Not implying that I'm healed yet. Far from it. Obviously it hasn't been a consistent one way path towards healing or where I am at, currently.
As you must be aware of by now, TSW has many trips and turns throughout it's assault on ones body. In the past 39 months my skin and symptoms have fluctuated. However, I seem to be getting more steady with progress as time continues to move forward.
Feeling & looking more normal as each new day begins.
I wake up most days and see "me" now. Life is slowly but surely returning to normal, whatever normal is or was that is, ha ha. I've been at this stage a few times in the past so I don't want to be over confident or tempt fate that I am nearing full recovery. The truth is, I just don't know. I am literally taking each new day as it comes, one day at a time (cliche alert). You learn this going through TSW, I guess.
Hands and feet are the most troublesome body parts, currently. My face has been almost clear for a good, few weeks. I can go out and face the public with confidence now (pun intended). This makes me happy. Very, very happy.
Still living at my parents home for now. I think living here with my folks & sister in a clean, nurturing environment has been mega supportive with my mental and physical health, and helped get me to this stage of my recovery. I have to admit that living alone going through withdrawal was really difficult. It was tough coping at times as you could imagine.
I can speculate that work and a good routine of diet, rest and fitness training has been key to getting me at this stage too. Or perhaps it has been good, ol' father time?. As you should know by now the word "time" is echoed and championed around these parts of the Topical Steroid Withdrawal universe. It is the word that is most used and said to be the only true healer, TIME.
So, for now I hold my breath with anticipation with what the future will bring. However, I must admit it feels really good right now, at this very moment. It's a very infectious and liberating feeling. Long may it continue.
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Randomness also!
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