A friend emails: I am sorry to hear that your plantar has taken so long to get rid of. I found that in addition to the physical therapy, that massaging the area and really working in magnesium oil, seemed to give me some relief.
I really enjoy your blogging. I don’t know whether it is that you have matured, or that the 12 step program or the therapy or some combination is working on you, but your work is less gratuitously cruel and for the first time, I am seeing continuing complimentary and positive observations about your father and step-mother. This doesn’t make your story or writing any less compelling, only less bitter and blaming and more about accepting responsibility for your acts. (This is the twelve step stuff.)
Keep going at it. Even if you never achieve the level of success you would like to, you are progressing toward a happier state, and that is nothing to sneeze at.
