JoKalsbeek

I'm Jo, born in '79, and stuck with a myriad of issues, both physical and mental. So though I studied to be a journalist, I only published a few articles and photo's, in the Netherlands and abroad. (You can guess how irate I get when journalists do a shoddy job of their research... Especially about T2!) No job, so guess I'm a housewife. A lousy one, but still. I'm a wife, and I'm usually at the house! So yeah. Thankfully my husband took me on, issues and all, and we've been happily married since 2008. We have one cat, our little black pirate, Night. He's diabetic too, since pancreatitis killed off his insulin-production. It's cost him an eye so far, but he's quite happy on his Lantus. And without his meter it would've been even longer before I'd have found out my own diagnosis. (Yeah... I measured my sky-high bloodsugars while on my own, at home. Talk about the floor opening up beneith you. Now there was a surprise!). So, what else... I just try to make the most of life, within the limits my body and mind put on me. And they're pretty constricting limits. But if I don't make it work, no-one else'll do it for me, and life's got to be worth living, right? So I'm trying. Spend a lot of time photographing animals in zoo's and their natural habitats, going to castles and palaces for more photo ops, and I can't resist a good comic con or fantasy fair.