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Elaborate.

Mz 15y ago
I was bed-ridden for about 3.5 months the first part of 2001. In May 2001, I was diagnosed with "atypical cystic fibrosis". After a lifetime of being treating like a hypochondriac and months of being denied treatment while doctors referred me for more testing and said things like "we can't find anything physically wrong with you, would you like to speak with a psychiatrist?", the first thing I was told after being diagnosed was "People like you don't get well. Symptom management is the name of the game." In other words, doctors were all too happy to consign me to a slow and torturous death. Since doctors were not helping me and I had largely been on my own in dealing with my health already, I continued working on the problem myself. I gradually got healthier by throwing out all my worldly possessions in order to break the cycle of contamination (this piece is heavily objected to by other folks who are dying of cystic fibrosis) and I did enormous research into what nutritional deficiencies I had, how to effectively treat them, and so on. I made drastic dietary and lifestyle changes. I have a diagnosis of a genetic disorder with a life expectancy of around 36 or 37. I will be 46 in one month. (I sometimes joke that 'in human terms, I'm the equivalent of an octogenarian'.) People routinely think I am in my thirties and I am healthier than I have ever been. I live without a car and me and my oldest son (who has the same diagnosis) walked 8 miles both yesterday and the day before to further the healing process. It isn't news that exercise, eating right and so on can delay the aging process and is generally good for one's health. Most people don't bother to explore the degree to which that can now be leveraged with the vast amounts of information readily available online. Peace. PS: There is a website, though that might die when my web-hosting expires later this month (I'm broke and don't know how to pay for it). For now, it's here: http://healthgazelle.com/ http://healthgazelle.com/
- raquo 15y ago
  I've read a lot of your comments on HN, thank you for sharing all this. I know you probably have better problems to worry about than your website, but I think you can back it up in the wordpress admin panel and import the backup file to wordpress.com which is free (if you need to minimize your costs). You may also need to copy your wp uploads manually, I don't remember frankly.
  - Mz 15y ago
    The blog is in Wordpress but the main site is hand-coded by me. It died once before and donations brought it back to life. If nothing else, I will FTP it down to my netbook before the hosting expires. I would be much more interested in information on a) how to get more traffic to my various websites and b) how to effectively monetize them. I suspect the real money will be in a webcomic I plan to do and another site that my sons blog on that we have additional plans for. I have considered posting this as a question, but I completely suck at that so haven't bothered. I continue to read stuff here to work on that angle of things. Thank you for your support.
    - 5l 15y ago
      I'm no expert really, but in case someone else doesn't jump in I'd have thought Google Adsense would work pretty well with your content. Also maybe Amazon Affiliates links to relevant books etc. I'm sure with that and a little SEO you'd easily cover the costs of a cheap VPS quite quickly.
      - Mz 15y ago
        So far this month, my google adsense account has racked up 3 cents in earnings. It's not usually that pathetic, but it's not great either. If nothing else, I need more traffic. I'm working on stuff. But I've been working on stuff a long time and I'm just really frustrated. I can figure out a cure for an incurable medical condition but can't pay my bills and can't figure out marketing (or some such). <insert crossed eyes> It's not a happy place to be and not one I desire to remain in. Peace.
- Prisen 15y ago
  Sounds more like you treated the symptoms of atypical cystic fibrosis than the symptoms of aging.
  - Mz 15y ago
    Yes, but some of those symptoms included things like gray hair. I also wore bifocals at a really early age. I got my first bifocals at age 30 and three years later when I got new ones the woman who fitted me said over and over "god you are young to be in bifocals". So being so sick aged me, tremendously. I heard that gray hair was indicative of things like a PABA deficiency and adrenal stress. I treated those nutritionally and I have less gray hair than I had in my early thirties.
- getsat 15y ago
  I sent you some money to cover your hosting for a while longer. Since you're discussing medical issues, I'd use Google Keyword Tool to look up exactly what people are searching for in relation to the topics you're discussing. Use the most searched for phrases in the titles and bodies of your posts. Get a Twitter account for each blog you run and use one of the Wordpress plugins that auto-tweets your new posts. Use appropriate hashtags. You should also install the Google XML Sitemaps plugin on all your blogs. It generates a robots.txt and sitemap.xml.gz which maps out all the content on your site. This helps search engines find it all and index it properly.
  - Mz 15y ago
    Thanks.
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Elaborate.

Mz 15y ago

I was bed-ridden for about 3.5 months the first part of 2001. In May 2001, I was diagnosed with "atypical cystic fibrosis". After a lifetime of being treating like a hypochondriac and months of being denied treatment while doctors referred me for more testing and said things like "we can't find anything physically wrong with you, would you like to speak with a psychiatrist?", the first thing I was told after being diagnosed was "People like you don't get well. Symptom management is the name of the game." In other words, doctors were all too happy to consign me to a slow and torturous death. Since doctors were not helping me and I had largely been on my own in dealing with my health already, I continued working on the problem myself. I gradually got healthier by throwing out all my worldly possessions in order to break the cycle of contamination (this piece is heavily objected to by other folks who are dying of cystic fibrosis) and I did enormous research into what nutritional deficiencies I had, how to effectively treat them, and so on. I made drastic dietary and lifestyle changes. I have a diagnosis of a genetic disorder with a life expectancy of around 36 or 37. I will be 46 in one month. (I sometimes joke that 'in human terms, I'm the equivalent of an octogenarian'.) People routinely think I am in my thirties and I am healthier than I have ever been. I live without a car and me and my oldest son (who has the same diagnosis) walked 8 miles both yesterday and the day before to further the healing process. It isn't news that exercise, eating right and so on can delay the aging process and is generally good for one's health. Most people don't bother to explore the degree to which that can now be leveraged with the vast amounts of information readily available online. Peace. PS: There is a website, though that might die when my web-hosting expires later this month (I'm broke and don't know how to pay for it). For now, it's here: http://healthgazelle.com/ http://healthgazelle.com/

raquo 15y ago
I've read a lot of your comments on HN, thank you for sharing all this. I know you probably have better problems to worry about than your website, but I think you can back it up in the wordpress admin panel and import the backup file to wordpress.com which is free (if you need to minimize your costs). You may also need to copy your wp uploads manually, I don't remember frankly.
- Mz 15y ago
  The blog is in Wordpress but the main site is hand-coded by me. It died once before and donations brought it back to life. If nothing else, I will FTP it down to my netbook before the hosting expires. I would be much more interested in information on a) how to get more traffic to my various websites and b) how to effectively monetize them. I suspect the real money will be in a webcomic I plan to do and another site that my sons blog on that we have additional plans for. I have considered posting this as a question, but I completely suck at that so haven't bothered. I continue to read stuff here to work on that angle of things. Thank you for your support.
  - 5l 15y ago
    I'm no expert really, but in case someone else doesn't jump in I'd have thought Google Adsense would work pretty well with your content. Also maybe Amazon Affiliates links to relevant books etc. I'm sure with that and a little SEO you'd easily cover the costs of a cheap VPS quite quickly.
    - Mz 15y ago
      So far this month, my google adsense account has racked up 3 cents in earnings. It's not usually that pathetic, but it's not great either. If nothing else, I need more traffic. I'm working on stuff. But I've been working on stuff a long time and I'm just really frustrated. I can figure out a cure for an incurable medical condition but can't pay my bills and can't figure out marketing (or some such). <insert crossed eyes> It's not a happy place to be and not one I desire to remain in. Peace.
Prisen 15y ago
Sounds more like you treated the symptoms of atypical cystic fibrosis than the symptoms of aging.
- Mz 15y ago
  Yes, but some of those symptoms included things like gray hair. I also wore bifocals at a really early age. I got my first bifocals at age 30 and three years later when I got new ones the woman who fitted me said over and over "god you are young to be in bifocals". So being so sick aged me, tremendously. I heard that gray hair was indicative of things like a PABA deficiency and adrenal stress. I treated those nutritionally and I have less gray hair than I had in my early thirties.
getsat 15y ago
I sent you some money to cover your hosting for a while longer. Since you're discussing medical issues, I'd use Google Keyword Tool to look up exactly what people are searching for in relation to the topics you're discussing. Use the most searched for phrases in the titles and bodies of your posts. Get a Twitter account for each blog you run and use one of the Wordpress plugins that auto-tweets your new posts. Use appropriate hashtags. You should also install the Google XML Sitemaps plugin on all your blogs. It generates a robots.txt and sitemap.xml.gz which maps out all the content on your site. This helps search engines find it all and index it properly.
- Mz 15y ago
  Thanks.

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