General Discussion

I didn't post about this the first time, but I need a place to vent and maybe even have a conversation or two.

Last June (2024) my son wound up sick in the hospital thanks to pneumonia. His body had a bad reaction to the infection, and his chest filled up with fluid. They were able to get the majority of the fluid out, but there was some scarring that we were told would be going away over time.

A couple months ago, a follow up visit showed there was more scarring than before. It wasn't going away, it was spreading. Last week, he went through surgery to remove it.

The surgeon said it was the worst case he'd seen in 15 years. We thought we were gonna lose him, or at best he would lose a lung.

As I sit here, 3 days after the surgery, I'm finding myself…

I've been all over the place on YouTube and other platforms since I started this journey, but I've never really been as consistent as I should be. I really do want to grow a community, and even though I know forums are "soooo 2000", I kind of want to pick this one back up.

There may never be a ton of people on here, but I do want it to be a place where people can find some new friends and discuss niche interests that maybe don't fit anywhere else on the internet.

Along that same line, the internet in general and social media is such a mess. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to talk in a place where there is no algorithm to dictate what you see and moderators actually pay attention to what gets posted to keep the riff-raff out? I think so.

Say hi below…

I figured I would take a minute just to add a post on here to give it at least some activity :)

In the past few weeks I have managed to complete my novel and get stuff done so I can start my degree program next week. There's always something to do, but hopefully things will be falling into a better rhythm as the year goes on. I do want to get back on track with the monthly blog posts since I missed the one for December both here and on Patreon, but I do think the stuff I have accomplished in the past few months has made the lack of posts OK.

You know those times where you have multiple accounts, one for testing, one for other testing and one as your main? Well, that is me on this site. I am trying something a little different with this forum (see the other post by my alt account for rules/guidelines) and I am curious to see if it actually goes anywhere. There are so many sites in 2022 that ask you to sign up, and so many that are social media based, that I doubt anyone is going to realistically sign up for a forum on a random website. But hey, who knows? Maybe I will be proven wrong and find out that people want something like this.

Personally, I do want a place like this. Free from the restrictions of other sites and able to post whatever I feel like posting. My goal here is to keep this place as open…