I have heard from several folks that they are no longer getting notified of my blog posts. This started occurring around the Christmas holiday and could be because I was not posting on a daily basis.
I will be honest (mainly to not having much experience with this) I am not sure why people are not getting notified. I have researched it a little bit and it appears to be how people are accessing the site. If you subscribe to the site then you may be getting notified, if you do not subscribe and just visit the site as a guest then you may not get notified. Also it can also depend how your settings are set up on your computer or device (having e-mail notifications set up). So in short I am not sure why.
When I started this blog it was intended to be a way to keep family and friends apprised of Jennifer’s progress with her status as we dealt with her cancer. As we all know now, that was very short lived and then it became a way for me to express how I am dealing with her loss.
While I greatly appreciate everyone that has taken time from their days to read my babbling/rambling thoughts for the past year+. I do not write this blog with the intent of garnering a following. It is a weird form of therapy for me and has helped me deal with my grief in ways I never would have thought of. If no one reads any of this that is fine with me. It just help me getting things of my chest and if it just sits out floating around the inter web that is ok with me.
I do get notified that people visit the site, but it does not necessarily show who is visiting the site. It will just say something like Visitor2453 from Butte Montana has visited your blog. There are just a few people (I guess these are people who are subscribed) that it does show a name.
Anyway I apologize if you are not getting notified (as such you probably are not reading this). If you are I do greatly appreciate your love and support.
Also, (most of you are probably well aware of this). I don’t spend time proofreading and correcting grammar and punctuation, etc. For those of you that have OCD with that type of thing it probably frustrates you. I apologize, but I don’t get hung up on that and it really is not important to me. I hate to sound conceded, but this is for me and I will do it how I want.
Enough on all that.
Today there was a interesting post on Facebook by one of the Neuroendocrine community members on one of the Facebook sites I still follow. According to the post this person did not write this, it is a compilation of various peoples observations of “normal”. I can relate to many of these so it really was refreshing to know that others in my boat are experiencing these same thoughts/emotions. Below is a photo of the piece that she posted.
As I said, it was refreshing to know that when I have some of these thoughts/feelings that I am not the only one. Knowing that is a little bit comforting.
As I have said before, in reality I am extremely blessed. There are so many people out there dealing with loss with so many other things that make it tougher. They have kids and bills they don’t know how they are going to pay them. I am blessed to have strong family and friends that are always making sure I am doing ok and that I am included in daily activities. I do appreciate that more than I can ever express.
So thank you to all of you that do that. God Bless you.
Well enough for today.