This is an experimental writing tool. Blogging is an excellent way to write a little bit, every day. That's all fine and good, except that there's something that I've been meaning to write about for the better part of ten years now. So instead of finding links (and interesting articles, and humorous anecdotes) to fill my calendar day after day, I will try to piece together my own history with leukemia.
As much as I want the story to be linear -- and as much as I realize that the finished product most likely will follow in chronological order -- I can't command my mind to remember it the way I want to write it.
So I will bite off a little bit here and a little bit there. I will categorize the memories. That's what matters. Because I expect to be writing exclusively about the past, the current calendar seems less than useful. I may change my mind about this, the further I get into documenting my history. But for now, everything goes to a category. The home page will still retain recent work, but archived "posts" all belong to a greater whole.
For that matter, I reserve the right to edit any post, for any reason. I will be using a blogging tool at the same time that I fly against some blogging "conventions." No calendar, for example, and when you view my "categories" (i.e. the Table of Contents), the display order is reversed, so it should read the way the story unfolded.
'Nuff said. Time to build some back story.
I'm glad you are making a website about your experience.
I have setup a similar blog for My Love (link below) because she wanted to post about her situation. She has not gotten through her treatment yet, although we've had quite a few situations like what you've described.
I'm considering converting the blog to a top down format like yours, but we also use it as a way to communicate her situation to her family. It saves on the phone calls and repeated explanations. :)
Maybe once this is all over and she recovers, I'll go through and create an index that reads like a story.
I'm happy you've survived, and I thank you for creating your website.
Thanks, Jon. I've tried following your link without much success. I'll keep checking, though. Best of luck to you and yours.