Hi, everybody. I just wanted to post a short update here as it’s been quite a while since I’ve written anything.
My mental health seems to have plateaued of late. My anxiety is still incredibly uncomfortable, and my depression remains at a high level. I didn’t even start watching playoff hockey until late Monday night, despite my 2nd favorite NHL team, the Winnipeg Jets, battling the St. Louis Blues in the 1st round out West.
It’s just been a very difficult time for me, and the cloud of anxiety-and-depression funk has not lifted.
As soon as I am able, I want to get back to work. Even Aunt Annie agrees that I’m better health-wise and happier when I’ve got the blog to work for…
And while I know that Steve Yzerman and Todd McLellan haven’t spoken with the media yet–I’m guessing that they’ll speak after the team’s end-of-season meetings with players wrap up–the Wings’ YouTube channel has something like a dozen interviews with everyone from Dylan Larkin (whose comments regarding the trade deadline were substantially blown out of proportion on Monday for click-bait’s sake) to Patrick Kane and quite a few players in between, and there’s a lot to talk about there.
Hell, today, I know that there’s a report from Hockeysverige.se’s Lukas Stenstrom reporting that Liam Dower Nilsson’s heading back to IF Bjorkloven despite some desire from the Red Wings to sign the Allsvenskan-playing center, Wings free agent signing Eduards Tralmaks is starting to train with the Latvians‘ World Championship again after suffering an arm injury a couple of weeks ago, we know that Moritz Seider will play for the Germans at the Worlds, big prospect defenseman Brady Cleveland has transferred colleges for the third time, joining Max Plante at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, and Owen Mehlenbacher’s headed to Jack Phelan’s UMass.
There’s already early draft talk as the Wings finished likely to pick 12th overall this June, and with Brock Boeser suggesting that he’s all but certain to leave the Vancouver Canucks, there’s some speculation that the Wings might be interested in improving their top-six scoring…
Though the team’s free agency needs remain the same as they were last summer, basically speaking–to add scoring and physicality up front, to integrate a scoring defenseman to replace Shayne Gostisbehere’s offense, and to sort out the team’s goaltending by mixing in both free agent signings and the team’s own youngsters playing in Grand Rapids, where the Griffins got a first-round “bye” and will play in a 2nd round, 5-game series against the Texas Stars starting next week.
In other words, there’s a lot of stuff going on right now, and I want to follow it along with you, but I’m still in a lot of physical as well as mental discomfort. As soon as the “fever breaks,” I promise that I will come back and I promise that I am paying attention, so I know that there are things going on and I am at least glancing at and saving the articles to catch up when I’m ready to go again.
So I know that the blog is quiet, and I don’t like it one bit, but my stupid mental health is still pushing back hard, and I’ve got to feel better than I do to be able to put these “bed days” behind me and get back up and get to work. I’m really sorry for the delay, but shit happens sometimes, and when you’re chronically mentally ill, extended depressive episodes happen.
I’m doing my best to work with my therapist, psychiatrist, my meds and my support system to sort myself out and get back ASAP, but health has to come first here, and health is a mixed bag right now.
