Milendo

Hello everyone :)
My name is Milena, I'm 28 years old, and I live in a small town called "Werl" near Cologne in Germany with my parents, one of my uncles, his wife and his two children (one is already grown up with 20 and the other one is "sweet 16"). We all live here on an old farm with no animals except for 2 dogs (one belongs to my Family, his Name is Lewis and he will be 6 in September) and the other one owns my little cousin), 2 cats (both belong to my side of the Family, one of them is named Barnaby and talks, eats very much but no one can tell, how old this little buddy is, and the other cats name is Lulu, she will be 7 in September). Even though I live in the same building, i have my own little flat which was build by my father for safety reasons (You can find the reasons down below//Trigger Warning, Medical Issues).

I like:
OTTERS (no, i LOVE them!)
reading (Harry Potter, Romances, Jane Austen, Ana Huang, Spicy Romance, New Adult)
singing
sunflowers
flowers
nature
books
cats
dogs
horses
anything medical themed
music (nearly all genres)
Friends (the TV-Show AND my very own friends)
Getting Postcards, writing postcards to total strangers Getting and writing real letters, where I can write how much I want to and where I can maybe send a picture of my Cats, my Dog or my favorite places in my home which I will take with a Polaroid-Camera. This is something, where i donˋt care how much it may cost, because it brings me so much joy to do letters with much love and I like the thought, that maybe someone far away may be smiling, just because of a letter i wrote. At least I'm always happy when someone makes such an effort for a total stranger/me.

Since 2017, when I was 21 I'm diagnosed with a disease called "Endometriosis" which causes much pain and damage in or at some organs in my whole belly. Due to this disease I also lost many "friends", am no longer able to work as a nurse (but at least 3h/day at a Dr. office) and my whole social life changed. I had to give up important hobbies, and most of the time I am not able to leave the house alone, because the Endometriosis Flare-Ups can happen so suddenly, that sometimes I'm not able to find a safe space by myself. Due to the "Endo", doctors who did not believe me when I told them I was in excruciating pain and all the consequential damage, I also got depressions and anxiety. Thru Postcrossing I try coping better with all this in particular with the depression, because I could even "meet" new people, when I do not feel good at all, and I am not brave or strong enough to go and meet people. Sadly I have to lay in bed most of the time because of the strong pain medication but thru I can even spread awareness to this Illness which affects 10% of biological females (XX) and a in rare cases biological males (XY) by writing in my Postcards about it or using an Endometriosis-themed Postcard, which i dont do so often.

I hope meeting new "letter friends" whom i could write more often:)