zeptember

Effective immediately, this journal will no longer be about daily blather, occasional politics, and other crap.

As of June, 2009, I copied everything having to do with Endometriosis and put it over on a “personal” folder within my Living With Endometriosis site.

I have LiveJournal, Facebook and Twitter if you want to read about daily blather. If you want to be added to my lists on those accounts, leave a comment here.
I’m still learning to like using Twitter, btw. I have two accounts - one for all things endometriosis-related, and one for daily blather.

This journal will, for the short term, turn into a log for my autoimmune issues - the two big ones being allergies and chemical sensitivities - because it’s getting a bit overwhelming for me to manage on a day-to-day basis and I need somewhere public to begin recording everything. I WANT a public place so that others can find and learn from what I go through, to identify with me. In short, I will provide links to medical journals and studies just like I do on my endometriosis website. When I find info, I like to share.

<—– You may check the archives by month or by category in the left sidebar of this website.

I say short term because I may just end up purchasing another domain specifically for my autoimmune illness-related blogging. Ultimately, I have no idea what will become of this journal - maybe it will eventually be removed altogether.

This journal as it stands now does not help anyone but me, in my opinion. I work through family stuff, emotional stuff, job stuff, and rant occasionally about politics. All that can be done privately again via a simple text program on my personal computer, and what I do feel like sharing can come in bits through the networking sites I’m on, which I listed above.

It is true that I am focused more inwardly than ever before. It is true that I give a lot more attention to my health issues than I ever did before - they take front and center stage right now, and it’s because I’m tired of suffering in silence with my myriad health issues. I’m tired of worrying about being perceived as a flake because there are so many events I miss out on, and so many people I’ve not been there for. My belief is that the more I show you about what I’m really going through health-wise, the more you might understand that it’s hard for me to even leave the house outside of work most days. I’ve been this way on and off since about 1999. Some days, weeks, months are worse than others.
I do not want pity or boo hoos - I just want people to try to understand WHY my web presence has to be all about me and why I don’t always have enough left in me to devote to other people online and in real life. The guilt wracks me, trust me. I am fully aware of my one-sided friendships with people in this regard. I want to change that. I also want to continue to be in tune with my body and mind, tweaking it and fixing it as much as I can every hour of every day.

I care deeply for my online and real-life friends, I want you to know that. I hope to see you around.