Guest guest Posted December 3, 2001 Report Share Posted December 3, 2001 I just wanted to tell you Sandy, that I use your site EVERY SINGLE DAY and will ALWAYS use your site to get info that I need ) It is my FIRST choice and the www.whale.to/vaccines.html or whatever the exact is on that, is my SECOND. I think you have an AWESOME site and I know EXACTLY how you feel and how you want it to be used a lot, being you have worked so hard on the site and other reasons. I created my " Vaccination Information " MSN Community so I could educate and inform people, just like you are doing too, and I was soooooo discouraged a few months ago cause I wasnt getting ANY new members and I have put my heart and soul into this site and I couldnt understand WHY nobody wanted to join and start educating themselves on an issue that is as important and detrimental as vaccinations! I was literally on the computer posting vaccine info to my site, MORE than I was OFF it, and I spent so long on the computer EVERYDAY that my hubby started to get jealous and was always mad at me and wasnt nice to me at all! He wanted me to spend time with HIM (being we own a shrimp boat and he goes out a lot) and NOT with the computer! My kids needed me and I wasnt there for them (as much as they needed me to be) and the baby started to HATE the computer and would SCREAMMMMMM as soon as I sat down in the computer chair in front of it cause she KNEW I was getting online and was gonna ignore her and be on there for HOURS upon HOURS! It got really bad here, but I HAD to do this and felt that if I didnt that I was letting people down that really needed me and my info, etc. Well, I dont stay online for HOURS anymore and try to get the posting done as fast as I can, and I CANT stay online anyway cause my baby is really getting into EVERYTHING now at this age, and plus I WAS getting carried away with the site and my kids really needed me...THEY come first no matter what, and I didnt realize that I WAS putting them second cause I was so excited when I first created the community and got ALL the info in there, that I just didnt think about anything else, when I should have. I still work very hard on the community though to make sure that I get the members ALL the info they need and that I answer ALL their questions they post, etc. but WITHOUT ignoring the kids and their needs. I am online on and off throughout the day and I get a 3 or 4 hours at night, when I SHOULD be in bed though, but this is my ONLY alone time cause kids are asleep. Anyway - I was so discouraged cause I didnt have many members, but NOW I have twice as many as I did and I am constantly getting MORE every other day!!! I started to spread the word about my site in other places that had vaccine message boards, and even the MEMBERS themselves did it too, and I didnt ask them to either! It felt sooooooo gooood to read posts from MY members saying how I saved their babies lives and that I had a wonderful place for people to go to get support, advice, help, and all the vaccine info they could ever need and all in one place! Things like that. I also started posting info on Homeopathy, Chiropractic, Vitamin K shots, etc. and now that I have MORE members, I REALLY have a hard time with keeping up with all the posts and posting vaccine info itself! It is VERY hard and harder than I EVER thought it would be! I understand how you feel and I just wanted you to know that you are NOT alone and that I felt the same way and was so discouraged, but now I feel the opposite and I owe YOU and Sheri Nakken so much for all the hard work you both do with providing the vaccine info, and I am eternally greatful and appreciate it more than you will ever know! I STILL use YOUR site in MY community for some of my vaccine info (and I did ask you BEFORE I did that, and you said I could use it, and same with Sheri) and all my members use your site as well! See - YOU helped ME (by letting me use your info) and then *I* ended up helping YOU because all of my members go to your site now and use it a lot! I guess I kinda returned the favor in a way. Thank God for your " Daily Vaccine News " cause THAT is something I post EVERYDAY and it really makes a difference cause people use it EVERYDAY and they NEED that info! Sorry this is so long, but I wanted to make sure that I wrote everything that I wanted to write and I didnt want to leave ANYTHING out, and I especially wanted you to know how much YOU are appreciated, and all your hard work and dedication in making www.vaccinationnews.com such a great site for information! YOU may not think that people are using it everyday, but I can tell you that I am using it everyday and those in my community are too! I have 40 members in the group and getting more all the time, and you are helping ALL of these people by having your site, and those people will tell other people about it (like they told about my community and that is why I am getting more people now) and pretty soon you will have more people viewing your site than ever before! Just think positive and be sure and spread the word about your site to other vaccine message boards and other places that you can, cause it WILL make a difference if you spread the word and ADVERTISE everywhere you can! If it can work for ME - it can defintely work for YOU and anyone else ) Hell I only had about 15 members a couple months ago, and now I have 40, and that is how fast advertising worked for me, so it cant hurt to give it a try, if you havent done so already. I know you are known in the group, but have you posted to other sites and boards? Just wondering. I hope you dont mind that I basically am " advertising " your site still, and using your info? It has helped so many that I figured you would be PROUD and HAPPY about that and would want me to still use it? If at any time you DONT want me to use your info, please tell me and I will stop right away. I have gotten a lot of my members to join THIS group too, as my way of saying THANKS for the info provided HERE by you and Sheri and everyone else who posts info ) Ok I will end this now and stop boring everyone.....I just want you to know that your site means ALOT to me and all my members and please dont ever feel that you created it for nothing and that nobody WANTS to use it or NEEDS to use it, cause they DO!!! Some people just dont have time to get online as much, or anymore at all, because they have babies that dont let them! LOL! I know how that is, and I have a VERY hard time getting on with my Zayna around, but I have to cause of the community, or else I wouldnt cause it is way too hard to deal with, without someone here to help. Those people that have babies will probably be back online once they CAN, and will use your site again, so dont think the worst ) You have done an excellent job and I will always be greatful to you....I hope that my group stays a success as well, cause it is the FIRST and BEST thing I have EVER done in my life that has given me such pleasure and happiness, cause I KNOW I am saving lives by educating and informing people and I have NEVER done something this fantastic and meaningfull in my entire life! It feels so amazing to hear a bunch of people tell me that I have saved their child's life and that they are so greatful for finding my community, and this is a feeling that I have never had the pleasure of experiencing and hopefully the way I feel right now will last forever ) As long as I stay devoted and keep on doing this for parents, then the feeling WILL never go away! Try and think of THAT Sandy, instead of getting discouraged, cause that is what matters the most anyway...What you are doing IS saving and helping people and that right there outta make you smile and forget all the negative stuff. Just a thought. You really seemed discouraged and upset so I am only trying to help and make you think of all the GOOD that you do, and how you should feel about THAT. Take Care and thanks again for your awesome and informative site - Ronda* (from Citrus County, FL) *momma to unfortunately vaxed, 6 yr. old Darren Austin and momma to UNVAXED, STILL BREASTFED, 18 mo. old Zayna Blair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 3, 2001 Report Share Posted December 3, 2001 Ronda, You are just a doll. Thanks. Although I didn't mean it quite the way people took it, I am so gratified that so many of you have taken the time to encourage me (even though I wasn't about to quit), that I don't mind that I wasn't clear. And yes, Ronda, please spread the word. That's what it's all about. But thanks for asking and making sure. And thank you thank you thank you to everyone who has written. Sandy To Sandy Mintz about your site ) I just wanted to tell you Sandy, that I use your site EVERY SINGLE DAY and will ALWAYS use your site to get info that I need ) It is my FIRST choice and the www.whale.to/vaccines.html or whatever the exact is on that, is my SECOND. I think you have an AWESOME site and I know EXACTLY how you feel and how you want it to be used a lot, being you have worked so hard on the site and other reasons. I created my " Vaccination Information " MSN Community so I could educate and inform people, just like you are doing too, and I was soooooo discouraged a few months ago cause I wasnt getting ANY new members and I have put my heart and soul into this site and I couldnt understand WHY nobody wanted to join and start educating themselves on an issue that is as important and detrimental as vaccinations! I was literally on the computer posting vaccine info to my site, MORE than I was OFF it, and I spent so long on the computer EVERYDAY that my hubby started to get jealous and was always mad at me and wasnt nice to me at all! He wanted me to spend time with HIM (being we own a shrimp boat and he goes out a lot) and NOT with the computer! My kids needed me and I wasnt there for them (as much as they needed me to be) and the baby started to HATE the computer and would SCREAMMMMMM as soon as I sat down in the computer chair in front of it cause she KNEW I was getting online and was gonna ignore her and be on there for HOURS upon HOURS! It got really bad here, but I HAD to do this and felt that if I didnt that I was letting people down that really needed me and my info, etc. Well, I dont stay online for HOURS anymore and try to get the posting done as fast as I can, and I CANT stay online anyway cause my baby is really getting into EVERYTHING now at this age, and plus I WAS getting carried away with the site and my kids really needed me...THEY come first no matter what, and I didnt realize that I WAS putting them second cause I was so excited when I first created the community and got ALL the info in there, that I just didnt think about anything else, when I should have. I still work very hard on the community though to make sure that I get the members ALL the info they need and that I answer ALL their questions they post, etc. but WITHOUT ignoring the kids and their needs. I am online on and off throughout the day and I get a 3 or 4 hours at night, when I SHOULD be in bed though, but this is my ONLY alone time cause kids are asleep. Anyway - I was so discouraged cause I didnt have many members, but NOW I have twice as many as I did and I am constantly getting MORE every other day!!! I started to spread the word about my site in other places that had vaccine message boards, and even the MEMBERS themselves did it too, and I didnt ask them to either! It felt sooooooo gooood to read posts from MY members saying how I saved their babies lives and that I had a wonderful place for people to go to get support, advice, help, and all the vaccine info they could ever need and all in one place! Things like that. I also started posting info on Homeopathy, Chiropractic, Vitamin K shots, etc. and now that I have MORE members, I REALLY have a hard time with keeping up with all the posts and posting vaccine info itself! It is VERY hard and harder than I EVER thought it would be! I understand how you feel and I just wanted you to know that you are NOT alone and that I felt the same way and was so discouraged, but now I feel the opposite and I owe YOU and Sheri Nakken so much for all the hard work you both do with providing the vaccine info, and I am eternally greatful and appreciate it more than you will ever know! I STILL use YOUR site in MY community for some of my vaccine info (and I did ask you BEFORE I did that, and you said I could use it, and same with Sheri) and all my members use your site as well! See - YOU helped ME (by letting me use your info) and then *I* ended up helping YOU because all of my members go to your site now and use it a lot! I guess I kinda returned the favor in a way. Thank God for your " Daily Vaccine News " cause THAT is something I post EVERYDAY and it really makes a difference cause people use it EVERYDAY and they NEED that info! Sorry this is so long, but I wanted to make sure that I wrote everything that I wanted to write and I didnt want to leave ANYTHING out, and I especially wanted you to know how much YOU are appreciated, and all your hard work and dedication in making www.vaccinationnews.com such a great site for information! YOU may not think that people are using it everyday, but I can tell you that I am using it everyday and those in my community are too! I have 40 members in the group and getting more all the time, and you are helping ALL of these people by having your site, and those people will tell other people about it (like they told about my community and that is why I am getting more people now) and pretty soon you will have more people viewing your site than ever before! Just think positive and be sure and spread the word about your site to other vaccine message boards and other places that you can, cause it WILL make a difference if you spread the word and ADVERTISE everywhere you can! If it can work for ME - it can defintely work for YOU and anyone else ) Hell I only had about 15 members a couple months ago, and now I have 40, and that is how fast advertising worked for me, so it cant hurt to give it a try, if you havent done so already. I know you are known in the group, but have you posted to other sites and boards? Just wondering. I hope you dont mind that I basically am " advertising " your site still, and using your info? It has helped so many that I figured you would be PROUD and HAPPY about that and would want me to still use it? If at any time you DONT want me to use your info, please tell me and I will stop right away. I have gotten a lot of my members to join THIS group too, as my way of saying THANKS for the info provided HERE by you and Sheri and everyone else who posts info ) Ok I will end this now and stop boring everyone.....I just want you to know that your site means ALOT to me and all my members and please dont ever feel that you created it for nothing and that nobody WANTS to use it or NEEDS to use it, cause they DO!!! Some people just dont have time to get online as much, or anymore at all, because they have babies that dont let them! LOL! I know how that is, and I have a VERY hard time getting on with my Zayna around, but I have to cause of the community, or else I wouldnt cause it is way too hard to deal with, without someone here to help. Those people that have babies will probably be back online once they CAN, and will use your site again, so dont think the worst ) You have done an excellent job and I will always be greatful to you....I hope that my group stays a success as well, cause it is the FIRST and BEST thing I have EVER done in my life that has given me such pleasure and happiness, cause I KNOW I am saving lives by educating and informing people and I have NEVER done something this fantastic and meaningfull in my entire life! It feels so amazing to hear a bunch of people tell me that I have saved their child's life and that they are so greatful for finding my community, and this is a feeling that I have never had the pleasure of experiencing and hopefully the way I feel right now will last forever ) As long as I stay devoted and keep on doing this for parents, then the feeling WILL never go away! Try and think of THAT Sandy, instead of getting discouraged, cause that is what matters the most anyway...What you are doing IS saving and helping people and that right there outta make you smile and forget all the negative stuff. Just a thought. You really seemed discouraged and upset so I am only trying to help and make you think of all the GOOD that you do, and how you should feel about THAT. Take Care and thanks again for your awesome and informative site - Ronda* (from Citrus County, FL) *momma to unfortunately vaxed, 6 yr. old Darren Austin and momma to UNVAXED, STILL BREASTFED, 18 mo. old Zayna Blair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 4, 2001 Report Share Posted December 4, 2001 Ronda, When i was researching my daughters vaccination stuff from 2 months to 6 months, i was on the computer for hours. so filled with anxiety and fear about giving them and not giving them, it was the only way i could calm myself, ie to learn eveyrthing i could. i also experienced terrible guilt for being on the computer and " ignoring " her even though i was doing it for an excellent cause and in the end decided not to do anything re vax until proven otherwise!!! so i just wanted to say i understand the experience of being on the pc with children. Its hard to keep up wiht the lists and stuff when having a child. i just dont know how people do it!! Kim Mommy to so far unvaxxed one year old daughter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 4, 2001 Report Share Posted December 4, 2001 Sandy, i have your site as a link on my website. I used it a lot when making my agonizing decision when my daughter was between 2 and 6 months, and now again that she is one year. I also wrote to you about doing research on breastfed babies vs formula fed babies' reactions to vaccinations. kim www.radiantmother.com Also: Mommy to so far unvaxxed one year old daughter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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