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>> We were moving, so we had to, we did the,
we had to pack our van.
We did it all ourselves, like we always did.
And I was really, I was saying to my husband,
I said this move is going to kill me.
I am really, I really feel like this move is going to kill me.
So I'm not doing this again.
We're hiring someone next time.
And it, actually it almost did kill me.
I mean I almost died because I had, got TB.
You know, I didn't really understand very much
about TB at all.
And I didn't realize at that time that anyone can get it.
Absolutely anyone can get it.
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But I was taking some medications to, I got anemic.
I was taking some medications to combat the side effects.
But the hardest part about the whole thing was the physical
and the psychological isolation.
Psychological isolation.
This was the really hard part about my whole experience is
that I was not, at the time
when you the most need your loved ones I was not allowed
to see my son.
I have one child.
I was not allowed to see anybody, have any cousins
or relatives or anybody visit me
until I got declared to not be contagious.
And in my case, that was six months.
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Oh, they let me take the medicines
because they're very hard to swallow because some
of the pills are really huge.
So they let me take the medicines
with applesauce or ice cream.
And then one day she brought, because I was getting so skinny,
she brought me two pints of this ice cream
from a really special ice cream place in Asheville
and it was really nice of her.
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And I said well, I'm going to go to this place, Roan Mountain,
which is this really beautiful place just
out of North Carolina in Tennessee.
And it's what they call mountain bald, so there's no trees there.
And it's really high elevation.
And so I went there myself with my dog, and there was ice
and snow, and I just, I had built up my strength.
And I just very slowly hiked.
It's part of the Appalachian Trail.
I just very slowly hiked there, and I took this little video
of myself saying, like how I was thankful
that I had gotten better.
And I felt so moved that I was able to do this.
And then I came home and then I just started doing my painting
and I, which was reflecting the landscape there,
and it was just very good for me.
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