Wednesday, January 30, 2013

29: Privacy or Not

   I woke up this morning to a pretty rude comment from some anonymous person who clearly should not even have an interest in my blog. I freaked out a little and thought about making my blog private. I quickly went ahead and tried to figure out how to either password protect it or make it private with only invited users. I am not very computer savvy and I wound up sending a bunch of emails to my friends/invitees while clicking on various options. Sorry friends...
   While driving my son to school I thought more about this decision to make it private. I do not want to. I have had a number of comments via email and my blog from other emetophobic people who have thanked me for sharing our story. It makes me feel good that I can reach out to and relate to other people who may be in a similar situation. 
   That is one of the main reasons I even started this blog. I actually got the idea from other blogs that I came across that are written by teenagers and adults who are emetophobics. There are so many people that have this phobia that reach out to share their stories and who are looking for advice.
   So, public it will remain for now. With a few setting changes. And, comments will be moderated by me before they are posted. If you do not have something helpful or mindful to share, then move along. This is a true story of a family who was able to save their child from a crippling phobia. A story I would like to share with anyone interested.