First of all I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone here for sticking with the owie despite the fact that I haven’t been around a lot the last few weeks and months.

As some of you are aware I haven’t been entirely well for a few years now with a variety of things going on. I want to try and explain to you all without over sharing how things are going. Most recently I started bruising randomly high led to a whole host of investigation and testing. I finally managed to seek help from a diagnostics specialist on the other side of Scotland who has been fantastic but refuses to travel to see me meaning I’m having to travel to see him every few weeks. He has recently diagnosed me with both long Covid and a condition called Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. This essentially changes everything regarding my understanding of my health and my conditions that I thought I had and was receiving treatment for. I’m now undergoing different treatment and further medical investigation.

Some days I’m fine, others I’m really not and I have no way of knowing what each day will bring.

I don’t want to loose STF and especially you guys and this ship. We literally built this from a decommed ship and gave her a new life and a new spec. So I’m going to see how the next few weeks go, if I can post and be the person you guys need me to be. But if not and I can’t then I will take it as a sign it’s time for me to step aside and leave.

I am so sorry, thank you for sticking with the ship and with me for just now,

Calé