This blog is the final product of my time working on blogs and learning how they work. For almost an entire year I have been trying to figure out blogs, and what they really mean to me. I see people write blogs all the time, but I never knew I would ever want, or need one.
In January 2008, I hurt my back during a military exercise and my whole life outlook changed. If anyone has had any dealings with military health care, you know that it can sometimes be a big hassle to deal with. The regulations, the paperwork, and the constant updates that everyone is supposed to have at any given time will be enough to make anyone lose their mind. The process of getting any help for my back was becoming overwhelming, so one of my coworkers suggested I start a blog. Then she suggested, anytime I had an update, I could just send it out to anyone who needed it. This would serve two purposes; I could update everyone, plus new people involved in the case could go back and see all the previous posts without resorting to reading tons of e-mails. So, thinking this was a great idea, I went searching for a simple blog. Unfortunately, at that point, I had only made comments on other blogs. I never had my own blog. So, my education into blogs began.
I searched out how to create a blogs, and how to let others comment on my post. I even had some of the adjustments worked out. Eventually I figured it out, and my first military blog was born. At first I thought I had it figured out. Well, I was wrong. As my military case became more complicated, I wanted to share my experience more. I wanted to help others understand what soldiers go through to get medical help.
Throughout the ordeal, my thoughts and my life became more complicated. No only did I have my military blog, I had my family blog, and I also wanted a blog to keep me occupied while I was healing. Then I realized I was having fun commenting on news articles, and world issues, so I started a news blog. There was always something more that I wanted to do while I was healing. By the time I was finished, I had about 10 blogs on individual ideas and circumstances. It was too much for me to keep up with. I loved sharing my day and ideas with people I had never met, but it was becoming too much. I couldn't do it anymore. I was truly addicted!
I had become a blog junkie!
Instead of having fun, I was spending my time on my blogs, even if it was just to say Good Morning! The blog monkey had taken control of my life. The sad part is, at that point in time of my life, I had so much going on in my life, every moment was precious, but the blogs were keeping me sane. No one from work called to see how I was doing and because of this injury, I almost lost my career. This was an incredibly dark time in my life. I was fighting for medical help, I was fighting for my job, and I was fighting to hang onto my military career. But, on many days, I was in so much pain I could not get out of bed, and when I did, I would just lay on the couch. The pain in my back caused such terrible migraines, I would cry and wish I could find some relief. Sometimes, the only time I had any contact with other and had any fun was to blog with strangers. They did not see this tired, hurting shell of a person who was sad and discouraged. There were nights that the pain would not allow me to sleep very well, and blogging at 3am was the one thing that was keeping me sane. But, I knew, I had to give some of them up. My amount of blogs were out of control.
One day I wrote down exactly what I liked, and what I enjoyed about sharing my thoughts, my experiences, and my life. I had to consolidate what was really important to me at this exact point in my life. After some thought, I realized it wasn't one or two things that I found important, but there are many issues that need addressing from day to day. I may have an opinion about the military on one day, the government the next, and I may comment about general health care on the third day. I wanted a place where I could chat with others, and we could share our opinions about what is relevant about each individual day, not speciafically about each individual topic.
This Blog's name represents how I am feeling about certain issues in today's society. I have created this Blog as a way to share my thoughts and opinions with the world. Basically my husband is tired of hearing about all my opinions, so I am sharing it with you, the world. :-) I am also going to share my day, my thoughts, my diets, my children, my new ideas, etc. Yes, it may be boring one day and very scary the next. On all things, maybe we will agree. Maybe we won't. In any case, I hope we can agree to disagree. I also hope that together we can see the world in a whole new light.
So, a BLOG is born. Here we are. I hope we can form a group where we will be able to share our ideas about this crazy world we live in. So, come on in, sit right down, prop your feet up, and let’s do some Blogging.
Amanda
“Those who risk nothing, will never have anything to risk.”
- Amanda (I do believe this one is mine:-)
Please visit my military medical issue blog at,
http://veteranspersonalitydisorder.blogspot.com/
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