Benefits of a blog
I started this blog to help me focus on the positive and it's helped me more than I could possibly have imagined and in more ways than I would have thought possible. I'm not good at talking about personal stuff and anyway at the beginning of all of this I couldn't talk about it without crying so that was no use to anyone. The blog has meant friends can follow my life (not in a creepy way you understand, at least I don't think so - they are my friends after all) and this means they know where my mind is most of the time, what stage we're at and what's happening to us. They are completely and utterly supportive so I'm obviously not scaring them too much and it means I don't have to keep filling them in each time we meet. That then is one consequence of the blog. Another is that it seems to be helping other people which in turn makes me feel good and them feel better. A third, and totally unexpected, 'thing' (have run out of different words an