My art has consisted mostly of photography for the last year and two months of intensive butterfly origami. This has been an unwanted hiatus.

Christmas Eve morning my pain management doctor will kill the facet joint nerves with microwave heating on the left side of my neck. C3, C4, C5, C6.

Once recovered I hope to be able to physically do more weaving and other fiber arts. Have a lot of ideas in my sketchbook, so it is a matter of having the energy again.

My New Years focus will be my job search--working with the IL Division of Rehabilitation Services, creating art that now lives in my head and on the pages of my sketchbook, recovering from the Cervical Rhizotomy and getting back on my feet as best I can. There are going to be limitations I will have to learn to live with--this disease is progressive so hope to slow the progress with aerobic, stretching, and strengthening exercises.

It has been a tough year in many ways--glad it is almost over and hoping 2009 will be a much better year for me.