So glad you could get such a quick dx and treatment! I hope you can achieve and maintain remission!

Yeah, I wasn’t correctly diagnosed for over 7 years 🫤. I’m lucky to have amazing care since 2011, though, and to have made some improvements!

Also 43 with CRPS (since 2003)—so glad the blocks have helped so much! Were you diagnosed and treated within 6 months of injury? That often leads to better outcomes. Wishing you a low pain day 🥰

BA degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Creative Writing and Psychology. First job after graduating was waiting tables. Taught preschool awhile. MFA and PhD in Poetry/English from Georgia State University. Now I’m a tenured associate professor at the College of Coastal Georgia :)

I second the Craig Santos Perez poem! I have one from many moons ago in Hunger Mountain: 13 Black Birds Looking at Away I can dig up if you’re interested:)

Lovely, thanks!

Ooooo how did I forget this one? Adding the my list. Thanks!

Thanks!! Done! (From jessbian at bellsouth dot net)

My wife loves birds and has written some flute music to go with some of my poems—close enough? :)