The Dangers Of Honest Blogging V 2.0

The original post: The Dangers Of Honest Blogging

The fact is that the world, no make that the internet is full of rude people who hide their identities but not their thoughts. What I am referring to is my recent posts here and on other sites about Geri’s struggles with her health issues. She has ended up in the hospital on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas, and New Years Days.

The last trip was extremely scary for me as the visits to the hospital were coming closer and closer together. She didn’t have insurance at the time thus she could not get or afford her follow-up care. We are dealing with life and death issue here and I have paid a price her being honest. The latest insult was a comment on a post that I did about her return from the hospital on Christmas Day and that was all the present that I needed.

I poured out my heart on a forum called Hall Pass. I picked it for no specific reason other than I was visiting the site and I needed to tell my story. There were several nice supportive comments. Then a very rude one. It simply read “Geri’s gonna die deal with it we all die” or something to that effect. I was extremely upset by this rude behavior. I started to respond and then I stopped myself. I thought getting me angry was the whole purpose behind such a comment. So I perused a high pathway. I choose to respond to the positive comments rather than the negative. I though I’m not giving this person validation.

These are just a few examples of what I have experienced and what others have experienced by being honest in their blog posts and since its my blog I will continue to do so. On a positive note: writing about our life and death struggles has been very beneficial for me. I am a very private person in my day to day life. I don’t enjoy a large support group that is why I turned to blogging and it has worked very well. When I started writing about Geri’s life and death struggles it was interrupted with bitter weeping and sobbing. I have overcome that, at least for now!

On the update front: Geri has returned home from the hospital. While she was there she was approved for Arizona’s version of Medicaid. So now, she can be seen by all of her specialists and receive all the meds that she needs. However, getting to see her primary care doctor was a bit of a challenge. When she called they gave her and appointment two weeks out. At that rate she will have returned to the hospital again without follow up care. I called the service provided and they offered to move up the appointment three days. I responded that even by then she will have likely been back in the hospital without ever have received follow-up care.

I was told that she would see what she could do. Amazingly, the phone rang within minutes. It was the primary care physicians office. They were offering a Monday appointment. Yea… What this means is I now am wearing another hat. This one belongs to the appointment setter which I don’t mind. As I later explain to Geri sometimes the squeaky wheel gets the oil.

As things settle down here I hope to finish a lengthy series on link building… Maybe!

Update 06/09/2010: Well, at lot has happened since I wrote that first post. I most important thing has been the improvement of Geri’s health. She still could use a liver transplant, but she has improved tremendously. Sometimes when I look at her it hard to imagine that she is critically ill. She has not looked this good in years.

I am so grateful that we changed primary care doctors. Her new doctor, one one that gave her six months to live, has been very active with her care. The former doctor asked “what do you want me to do, I’m not a specialist.” We then said come back in three months. Yes, that advice was given to someone who had spent more time in the hospital than out over the last two months!

As for that link building program that I was working on that has morphed into a much bigger program. I am currently working on an SEO and link building video training series. I have already scripted and completed the first 20 or so. Now, if I only could figure how to place them on this blog. I worked on that project last night.

I created a video about the daily life of a local SEO where I recorded my work on the internet while doing research for a n upcoming video marketing campaign for myself. The video ended up being a critic of several video websites. I had not intended doing that. It just became very obvious that many of these sites are difficult to use registration wise and I pointed out the difficulties of using the site.

I see really bad sites almost everyday and this video highlighted three sites that where not very user friendly. Some times its the color scheme or the font size that make reading the content difficult. One site had its join now link located at the bottom of a very large page.Not only that, but the font color was a very light gray and it blended in with the white background which made it extremely difficult to read for these eyes.

I will be working on learning how to add video again today.

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