Dear Readers of Trials and Tribulations,

All of you that have left comments following each chapter and those of you that have been reading the story without commenting have made a profound impact on my life in more ways that you could ever guess. I know there's a lot I would have to learn before I could ever consider myself truly an author. I must say that each comment left has given me the confidence to continue.

However, something I must tell you concerning the ability to post a chapter a week. When I was allowed to begin posting my story here, I was full of ideas and had the ability to write a lot without any distractions. Several events occurred.

I didn't take into an account of the issues I have/had. The best way to explain this is to be straight forward. I have been battling leukemia off and on for half my life. The odds of beating this illness is much greater than ever before, but odds are just numbers and sometimes even though the odds are in your favor, there's always someone that makes the odds what they are. Someone has to be the one outside those good odds and has to battle a little bit harder.

To make a long story shorter, the last few months has been hard mentally and not having my mind in the right place has made writing that much harder, especially for a first time writer who never believed he would have a story in him that other people might enjoy reading. I have been seeking and receiving advise, and I'm trying my best to get myself back to where I want to be, both physically and mentally.

I hope, you the readers, will have patience with me while I try to finish this story and meet the goals I had when I first began this journey.

Thank you,

Billy Martin