covid-19 – L.D. Rose

Hey lovelies,

I know, it’s been an eternity. I wish I could tell you this is an optimistic email with great news. But it isn’t.

First, I want to apologize for my absence and radio silence. To be honest, the past two years have been pretty much a disaster for me and it’s clearly not looking any better. My books and writing have taken a backseat to doctoring and they unfortunately will for the foreseeable future.

I promise I have haven’t quit writing or being an author. I miss it so very much! I wish I could convey the awful sense of loss I feel over it. So much has happened to me over the past six months, I’m still reeling from 2021.

My pup, Kaia, became very ill in August and nearly died. She ended up being diagnosed with Leptospirosis and we shelled out the money to get her treated. Thankfully, she’s doing well now and is as energetic as an elderly Boxer could be. One bright light in all of this.

My kitty, Oreo, became very ill in October with severe anemia of unknown cause. Hubby and I tried our best to save him over the next few months, but he passed away in early December. The backs of my eyes still sting at the thought of him. His brother, Milk, searches for him on a daily basis. My heart hurts. We loved him very much.

My husband also injured his back pretty badly after a bad fall in October, but he’s also recovered and is doing much better. Another bright light.

COVID is clearly back with a vengeance. I wish I could tell you how many people I’ve watched die, how many regrets I’ve heard from patients and their families, how many losses all of us medical staff have experienced. We’re just trying to survive on a day to day basis at this point. The amount of sick is tremendous, truly. More than we could’ve ever imagined last year. And it’s utterly depressing.

I received the rights back to RELEASING THE DEMONS from my publisher in August, so Blaze’s book has been taken down from Amazon and Barnes & Noble…for now. I do intend to do a quick revision and self-publish it, but I’ve barely had a chance to function normally as of late. So, unfortunately, RTD will be unavailable for the time being.

I don’t know when I’ll finish FURIOUS ANGELS, nevermind publish it. I had such high hopes of getting the entire Senary Series finished and published before 2025. Maybe I still can do it. But for now, my creative future is not looking too bright.

I don’t want you all to think I’m giving up–I’m not. I’m just triaging all of my personal and work disasters without losing my sanity. I need to prioritize my mental health and my loved ones for now. Once I can finally maintain some semblance of normalcy, I hope to return to the book world better than ever. It has brought me so much joy and I truly want to create again.

I won’t be updating until I have something author-related to share, and at this point, I’m not sure when that’ll be. A few months? A year? I don’t have the answers. If you’d still like to remain updated, please check back! Or you can subscribe to my newsletter or follow me on social media. If not, I completely understand. We all need our escapes and I won’t be able to provide you with any for a while.

Thank you for sticking with me through all of this and I hope you’re healthy, safe, and doing well. Until next time, I wish you all the best and hopefully I’ll connect again with you soon.

With love,

Linda

L.D. Rose

Well, this is a mess.

Hi loves! Long time, no chat (since January, wowza). It’s been a very interesting few months, that’s for sure.

I’m okay, still haven’t come down with COVID-19 yet. Considering I’ve been working at 4 different hospitals and various offices across the state, I’m counting myself blessed.

Every day is getting worse here, but we’re hanging in there. Supplies of personal protective equipment are still pretty scarce. 😣 We’re seeing the surge in my state now and I’m hoping we can keep our hospitalization and death rates down enough to manage this. I’ve already been granted “disaster privileges” for every hospital in the area.

There are clearly WAY more positive cases than are being reported. The majority of people are not being tested (and asked to simply stay home and wait out their symptoms) because there are not enough tests, and frankly, not enough PPE to administer them. I’ve been wearing the same mask for the past week and plan to until it’s no longer functioning or soiled. We’re conserving as much as possible without risking lives, but other states are not so lucky. Many of my med school friends in NYC have told me the situation is a disaster there and looking pretty dire.

Unfortunately, we’re in this for the long haul since this virus is taking on a classic pandemic spread. I understand the economic impact is going to be profound if we don’t restart our economy, but I promise you, if we open back up too soon, that curve is going to shoot right up again and we’re going to lose more lives. We HAVE to balance these decisions carefully.

This is not about the mortality rate, per se, because most of us will survive this. It’s about the VOLUME of cases hitting the hospitals, as I’m sure you’ve all heard time and time again. It’s about the people who WOULD survive if they had a ventilator available to them, but may not have one if the hospitals are overrun. All of these comparisons to the flu are irrelevant because the flu causes a steady flow of infections. COVID-19 is more like a rising tsunami in terms of healthcare burden.

I know everyone is hopeful for drugs, but this virus is moving faster than we can imagine, and maybe they will help. Maybe they won’t. We can’t necessarily rely on this or a vaccine to suddenly cure everyone. While it’s important to continue work on both of these elements (and trust me, we are working on them), we also have to do damage control. We have to PREVENT this virus from spreading i.e. stay home, social distance, practice good hygiene, and remain out of harm’s way.

As you can probably guess, I haven’t done much in the writing realm of my life. But I do have some news to share and a book sale if you all need a little escape for a while. I think we could all use one!

(On a brighter note, gotta love coming home to this the other day! 😂😍 Hubby, my sister, and my BFF got me all the necessities! ❤️ PSA: the masks are unused 😏)

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Until next time…

Stay safe, my friends. We’ll get through this. ❤️

Best,

Linda