starting to help others...

I woke up this morning to find an interesting request in my inbox.

I will leave my updates around the eye for another post; I feel that Elena's message gets the priority. This is the name of the girl/ woman who wrote to me and begging for information that can be of any help to her friend in Romania who was diagnosed with a BIG acoustic neuroma. She got my email from my profile in ANA forum and the recommendations she received from a bunch of people on the forum. I have not been in the group for a while because of my LOTS of eye problems, so she emailed straight.

As Romania is a neighboring country, Elena asked me for information concerning my Europe - Germany's trip. It is much easier to get to Europe than to travel the whole world to go to LA, except everything else.
I wrote immediately back to her a longish email concerning facts I had gathered from my correspondence with House Ear Clinic and International Neuroscience Institute in Hannover Germany. I tried to summarize all I know and wrote only the succinct facts not to scare Elena. I am completely aware of how overwhelming such a narration can be and did my best to be concise. I suggested her the ways she and her friend should explore the money factor, because for me, this was the hardest obstacle!

But the most important is that Elena, HER FRIEND, has taken up with searching information as much as she can. It is just amazing of her! I was alone through this process and I know how precious Elena's help is. I mean, I had my family and friends by my side, but no one helped me in the actual process. Maybe they knew I am strong enough to do it by myself!! ;-) I feel that Elena is a real precious stone-friend to her Romanian - great support even from far away. (Elena lives on another continent.)

I am glad that this journey is in the past for me and now I would like to be of any help to others who are on the road after me and to make their AN adventure easier!

~ Hrissy

it is high time.....

Ok no more lingering!!

Here it is - my first post!

Hope it will not be the last (I am very good at giving up things ;-))

I registered in the morning of Jan 1st 2009 in blogger (since it is adjusted to American time, it says I register in December 08), then I stepped back wondering what to write for, how to put it, as a whole how to manage my blog! Furthermore, I was overwhelmed by the whole new school part and the bunch of exams just round the corner!

So here I am

Me sipping Baily's Irish Cream and figuring out how to give a name of my "comments after the post" section. I read on http://www.thecutestblogontheblock.com how to modify my HTML code and after my 4th failure, I simply wrote to the team who deals with errors on blogger.com that a specific message pops up after the modification. I think that I haven't performed something correctly, but still... So this is the place to ask Kay officially how to master my comments part!! I have the persistent observation that you are very good!
(By the way, your blog have always been the cutest I have come across and I went straight to the cited site to download a template.)

Tracing back to my evolution (I do not know whether this is the most proper word, but I view this space not only as my techno advancement (my brother will be proud of hearing that - yax :<), but also as an development of my homo sapiens (yes, they did not severed any part of my brain ;-)). One thing is for sure, never paid a thought that the time of me being a postie may come. I have been following the blogs of a number of friends and now is the time to open mine. I feel kinda weird because I am not used to writing to myself and then having it viewed by many people (well, I hope that I am right about the number ;-) Yep, I have never had a diary in other words!
The idea hit me on Jan 1st when he, no - I, well both of us mutually broke up! True, Andrew and I were not dating any longer- a very good start of the year, isn't it?! He felt he needed time, I did not want to rush him, so..... the result was him coming back in a week and a half and asking to stay! I will not hide that the time we were apart we were in touch (well, from time to time!) Despite my deep distress, I let him not to go back home (blame me)! It is difficult to put pieces together back once shuttered, but I can only say - time will tell!!

One more highlight!

Among the pretty busy January that I have had, I have had vision problems since Saturday! Now my eye is so colored that I getting it sewn tomorrow. On Monday doctors warned me that if it went like that, they would close it at the end of the week! Ehh, time for a second shutting!

Enough for me, for this evening only ;-) !!

Special thanks to Kay whose encouragement released the spirit in me to post for the first time!
After all, it is not that scary!!

Peace and Love,
Hrissy