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If the health site has no traffic/audience, why keep focusing on it? It doesn't seem to have any specific angle that sets it apart from 1000s of other health si

If the health site has no traffic/audience, why keep focusing on it? It doesn't seem to have any specific angle that sets it apart from 1000s of other health sites.

Mz 14y ago
Honestly, it has never gotten the focus it deserved. I was too overwhelmed fighting for my life to give it adequate attention. I would like to give it the shot it deserves since I am now healthier and currently unemployed. I feel some sense of obligation to try since for the previous three years all my sites were kept online by donations inspired by the health site and given to me to keep it alive. None of my other sites have inspired a similar response. I have done something doctors said could not be done. I think it is replicable. I am not the first person to defy medical expectation and I won't be the last. I remain torn between feeling like I have done something amazing which could benefit the world and feeling like the accomplishment is more ordinary than it sounds to some people. But ultimately I am still on the hook emotionally because of the response the site gets from people in spite of the fact that I have failed to properly develop it. It seems to have a spark which has do far refused to die, in spite of long periods of starvation. Perhaps is tended to, it is the sort of spark which could grow into something. I hope to also develop other projects alongside it. Perhaps that is foolish but I don't see why I can't. I have often been the poster child for excessive longwindedness on various forums I have belonged to. This was while ill, going to college part time, homeschooling my sons and doing volunteer work. My sons are grown. I don't do volunteer work anymore. Most people seem to find me more tolerable when my attention is split. Otherwise, I seem to be too much to take. Getting out of my own way in that regard has been a longstanding goal and I think I am finally on the right track in that respect. Thank you for asking and giving me the opportunity to address that question. I wrestle with it myself but, for better or worse, I currently still feel on the hook for trying to find an effective means to share my story.

If the health site has no traffic/audience, why keep focusing on it? It doesn't seem to have any specific angle that sets it apart from 1000s of other health sites.

Mz 14y ago

Honestly, it has never gotten the focus it deserved. I was too overwhelmed fighting for my life to give it adequate attention. I would like to give it the shot it deserves since I am now healthier and currently unemployed. I feel some sense of obligation to try since for the previous three years all my sites were kept online by donations inspired by the health site and given to me to keep it alive. None of my other sites have inspired a similar response. I have done something doctors said could not be done. I think it is replicable. I am not the first person to defy medical expectation and I won't be the last. I remain torn between feeling like I have done something amazing which could benefit the world and feeling like the accomplishment is more ordinary than it sounds to some people. But ultimately I am still on the hook emotionally because of the response the site gets from people in spite of the fact that I have failed to properly develop it. It seems to have a spark which has do far refused to die, in spite of long periods of starvation. Perhaps is tended to, it is the sort of spark which could grow into something. I hope to also develop other projects alongside it. Perhaps that is foolish but I don't see why I can't. I have often been the poster child for excessive longwindedness on various forums I have belonged to. This was while ill, going to college part time, homeschooling my sons and doing volunteer work. My sons are grown. I don't do volunteer work anymore. Most people seem to find me more tolerable when my attention is split. Otherwise, I seem to be too much to take. Getting out of my own way in that regard has been a longstanding goal and I think I am finally on the right track in that respect. Thank you for asking and giving me the opportunity to address that question. I wrestle with it myself but, for better or worse, I currently still feel on the hook for trying to find an effective means to share my story.