Daily life, post diagnosis, 8 months on

Wow! This has been a rollercoaster of a journey, and I'm still on it, being spun around like my entire universe is in the middle of a spin cycle of the cosmic washing machine, and something somewhere is on fire. Months before official diagnosis I'd been reading and absorbing knowledge about what masking is, why to stop and how to continue life. The diagnosis hit me in the face with all the…