Health Update, Major Decisions, Word For The Year

A hodgepodge of updates

Ravyne Hawke
A Delicious Torment
5 min readOct 31, 2023

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Happy Samhain (Halloween) to all me lovelies! Chillier weather has finally arrived here in Oklahoma — who am I kidding? It feels like Winter around here *laughs* Low 40s during the day and low 30s at night. Tonight, it may even dip into the high 20s. Brrrrrr! However, I am not complaining. I love this time of the year when everything around me is dying or going dormant — I actually come ALIVE! As some of my readers already know, Samhain is the beginning of the New Year for me. It is when I seek out my Word-For-The-Year and set intentions. And so this brings me to the topics at hand for this post — a health update, some major decisions, and my Word-For-The-Year. I am still working on my intentions, so that will be a separate post in a couple of days. So, Let’s get into this!

Health Update

The Big Issues — Long Covid, IC/BPS & Lung Damage

As I explained in my last update, I now have Long Covid symptoms from having Covid three times. My main symptoms are lethargy, all-over muscle and joint aches, persistent headaches, blurred vision, loss of taste/smell, and numbness in my hands. Some other symptoms like neuropathy in my legs and feet, lung damage, and swelling of my legs and feet are also related to other…

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Ravyne Hawke
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Writing Coach, Poet, Fiction Writer, Essayist, Artist, Dreamer | “Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the Ocean” ~Thich Nhat Hanh

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