NEW POST ~~ Some interesting facts about how my site seems to continue to be used: I update posts kind of randomly because I need to do busy work occasionally and it fits the bill. There are over 5000 posts that date back to 2007. It's an interesting exercise for me. Those posts get republished and sent out to my email list which is about 6,000 people. So there are those readers. Because I don't actively do much on social media, I don't seem to get a whole lot of attention on social media. That works out for me pretty well since I simply don't have that sort of availability anymore and it's still there for people who want to see it and it does seem like people do peruse it now and then. What's interesting is when I look at the stats. I get a lot of traffic from Asian countries. This is relatively new and I'm not sure how to understand it, but it's significant. The other thing that's interesting is that the site continues to be taught at universities. I don't know how it is used at universities because all I can see are the links to the pages of the universities where syllabuses are kept. They don't actually let me see what the coursework is... So there are some universities that have been repeatedly utilizing my site for many years. What is great is that new universities still show up. For example, Chicago State University showed up yesterday. I would love to know who's teaching and what they are saying about it. The first University that ever taught my work was Florida State, Miami and it was a dear friend of mine who was the professor so I knew what she was up to and she invited me to speak to the class. I would love to do that more, so if anyone actually knows who's doing this let them know I'm available!

A couple years ago I had an urgent medical need and I went to an urgent care. Actually I'd been bit by a tick in my backyard and I have Lyme disease. Although I don't even think I got Lyme disease from a tick but that's a whole other story. Still it alarmed me and it was attached to me in my groin area. I needed someone to remove it and Paul was in the UK. So I went to an urgent care and I was nervous because I also wanted very hard-hitting antibiotics because I do have the pathogens associated with Lyme disease and I wanted to make sure to kick out whatever this particular tick was carrying. I was nervous because in Arkansas there are virtually no doctors that treat Lyme disease and there is a statewide denial that Lyme disease exists at all.

have learned that there is much you can say about chronic illness in general. I have spent almost a full 2 decades studying all manner of chronic conditions. My condition led me to do this as I have rotating symptoms that fit a multitude of diagnosis. Because of that I gave up on diagnosis a long time ago and started noticing that from where I stood all chronic illness has undeniable similarities with a lot of crossover symptoms from one condition to another. Every human being is unique and no two illnesses are the same even when a diagnosis is the same.