New Features

I have a couple of new features added to the blog.

First, I found a piece of software that lets you add a counter to your blog site. So now I can get some kind of idea how many times the blog is read in a nice little report and see it by day or weekly. You may notice the counter in the right hand margin under the links. I put it up June 24th Sunday at about 5 AM so the number you see there is the number of times the page has been loaded since then. This is not the count of individual visitors as I would have liked, but rather page loads, if you go off the page and come back then I think that is treated as a tick on the counter. Anyway it is better information than I had before.

Next, people are always asking me what they can do to help. Some want to help with errands and chores, others have asked if they can give money to help with medical bills and expenses. There is just no way that I could accept money from friends or relatives, I would have to be at the starvation level for that to even cross my mind. And given the research I have done on so called non-profit organizations and how much money is actually received by the intended parties, I cannot encourage donations to them either.
After much consideration and deliberation I have added a small sponsor block at the top of the page. This is a way you can help financially without actually parting with any money, which is the only way, I would have it. The payouts on these are miniscule, but if I have enough people actually loading the pages, then after a month it may offset the cost of one of my prescription co pays or something.
I have tried to pick a color scheme that will just blend in so they are not distracting. So if you don’t want to waste your time with them you can just breeze right by them. I would never want to burden anyone who takes the time to come to my site, and officially I cannot encourage you to visit the sponsor links, per the contract terms. So I am not asking you to visit them, I am just letting you know they are there, in case you missed them.
I do not get to control what shows up there, but it is supposed to be content related. Like today I saw some for cancer clinical trials and one for digestive disorders. So I might learn some things from these as well, who would have thought. Pretty cool how that works, huh.

Darn after 2 AM already, got to make like a banana and split.
More updates to come soon!
I have not even gotten into the recovery story yet, so much to do, so little time.
Counting down to Chemo round 2 starting Monday July 2nd.

All things according to his will.
Greg