I think I've made G-list Celeb Status, oops, heads stuck in the doorway...darn!

First, lemme say "Wow!" The emails that I have received from people that have read my blog have been overwhelming! And to think of all the wasted time I put into the decision of posting this whole 'in my head' thing. To actually have it pay off in spades within a day! From the time I linked this site to my facebook page, as well as linked to my signature on a survival site, my conversations with people outside of my immediate circle have been just crazy (crazy good)! I do want to share some here for sure, it's just deciding which ones I guess have affected me the most. I figured that my linking this to facebook would allow my friends and extendafriends to read what was up, and linking this to my signature on YSC (mostly American survivor site geared towards young women with BC) would hopefully allow a few others to read about me and I'd find out if I had any other like-minded people to swap stories with. Well, both have been amazing and I can't believe this has been viewed a few hundred times in a matter of days. Ah, that's a little surreal.
Oh and to my girlfriends, stop making fun of me by saying that I sit around with all this time on my hands and click and click away to get the sitemeter count up. I designed this site to not include my own IP address (so computer-savvy I am). For those of you who will try and counter that I'm doing this from other people's computer? Let me answer before you have a chance even to think it: You guys are *ssholes, quit stealing my thunder (kidding! *mwah!*)
No, in all seriousness, please do know that it means the world to me, especially when I get emails from other survivors, like the one I opened today from a girl in New Zealand! I mean, really? New Zealand? How on earth did she find me??!! That's pretty cool and pretty humbling. To hear her tell me she feels close to me without even meeting me because she shares so much of what I'm thinking and has gone through so many of the same trials 'n' tribs is exactly why I did this! I've been immediately rewarded by an influx of well-wishes and stories of survival. I have also received correspondence from UK, Germany, and all over Canada and the US! Where are you guys posting this??? Am I going to google myself and find video of some pretty little Japanese reporter giving a news cast with my blog on the top right hand screen (after they've translated it of course)? I know some of my friends have sent it around their office or to their friends/family with some inspiring words regarding me and encouraging others to read or pass on to people they know who have survived cancer, but have people they've sent it to sent it to others as well? I know better than most how well viral marketing works over the internet (this is a big aspect of my job and my companies core competency) however I never thought I'd be subjected to it in my personal life. It's so weird, I still just have to shake my head to picture people opening an email with information on my life and my thoughts; it's still gonna take some getting used to. I've already had the conversations with people bringing stuff up about me that I'm like, how did you know about that? Oh, right, heh heh, I'm the one who's invited this into my life, aren't I? Maybe I didn't think this through as well as I should've! I'm not known as a 'sharer of feelings'. Till now of course; now I've gone soft and have totally lost my edge, super! ;'(

Obviously I say all or most of this in jest, but to those of you who I have been in contact with that are inspired by me being able to talk about it, all I can say is try it for yourself, I promise you by doing that you'll see I'm nothing special. Let your friends/family in on what's going on without having to have the extra emotions of dealing with their responses. It totally has worked for me. I've been in a really good mood this past week and I in all honesty wasn't actually planning on turning this into an ongoing thing (it's a lot of emotion), but I've been inspired by all of your encouragement, so as long as you keep letting me know how you're doing and how you're interpreting my journey and it doesn't get in the way of the bills getting paid, I'll keep on writing, deal?