Hello, everyone, and thank you for still being my friends here, no matter I was absent for so long! Good work, everyone!

I guess I owe everybody an apology for not being here for so long and not helping you with reading and commenting on your work. A lot of stuff happened to us and to me in particular which simply prevented me from being here. First of all, in the past few months the company I work for has been experiencing severe difficulties surviving on the market. We are a construction company and the crisis in our country hit the construction business most severely. So, in a result from it, our office was sent on a non-paid leave for an undetermined period of time. Stay at home with no salary, this is the result. I guess many of you will say: “Hey, why don’t you just find another job?”, and will be absolutely right. Well, the thing is, that I really love my job, my colleagues and my bosses, they are really very nice, educated and decent people. Besides, I’ve been trying to have another baby which automaically excludes any attempst to change the job during a severe economic crisis when unemplyment levels are at their highest peak. So, I’ve been waiting to get back to work as soon as possible, while trying to make a living through other independent sources.

Second, recently my daughter was diagnosed with childhood neurosis. I have no idea about the roots of this condition and how it happened, having in mind that there isn’t a single stress factor in our family and environment that might have stressed her so much. Any problems we’ve had, we have always kept them away from her. The manifestation of her neurosis is mostly through facial tics and cramps. We tried different methods of treatment, including homeopathy, severe medications, various herbal teas, physical activites, more positive emotions, therapy, anything… you name it. So far, we’re making progress. Improvement is very slow, but it’s there. Nothing has made me happier for a long time. It will take months for the situation to go back to normal again, but the beginning has been settled.

Basically, these are the two major reasons why I wasn’t here recently. I just wasn’t able to think about anything else and I was very, very desperate. But I decided to pull myself together and never to show my child that something’s wrong. The primary demand for a successful outcome is not to show the child in any way that she has the tics, otherwise they can deteriorate. We decided to move on as always and go back to normal, so that our daughter can’t feel any negative change. Especially now, when the improving is visible. We are continuing with our lives and do anything to help our child and survive this bad period.