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Hey Sean,

I can just speak for myself, but your site has helped me a lot. Combined with the support of my best friend (the only one I came out to), this really helped me to deal with my BIID. I am not a very severe cause, compared to some cases I’ve learned about here.

But you have helped me healing!!!! There has been a time when I came here at least once every day. Now this is not necessary any more. I check in now and then, and it feels good to be surrounded by people who have similar experiences. But the “other things” in life have grown bigger.

It is remarkable that your site has helped me so much. I remember when I had another problem and looked for online support and there were no daily updates and I felt f***** up. Your site has helped me over all the bad BIID days. I read all the new posts since I came here, and a lot more. I am VERY grateful for the opportunity to find input every time I was looking for it.

So here’s a great THANK YOU!!!! And in case I don’t show up as often as usual, this is part of my healing process.

Best wishes and thanks and greetings!!!

Karen

I would also like to say that this site has helped me a ton, and, if it weren’t for being busy with high school life, I would check much more often. When I get time I try as hard as I can to look.

Don’t worry Sean, I doubt that the site is experiencing anything more than a bump :)

Hullo Karen and L. Thanks for the comments. I’m glad that you feel you’ve been helped by the site.

And I think it’s good that not coming here as often is part of your healing process. I hadn’t considered it that way, good stuff :)

Everyone goes through phases and I think site traffic over the years reflects that. I’m simply going through a phase atm where I don’t have a heck of a lot to say.

Sean, I thought “decimated” meant cut *to* a tenth, not cut *by* a tenth. In this sense, ‘decimated’ is worse than ‘devastated’.

@Nobody, Ack! You are of course correct. I wasn’t thinking… :(

Historically, “decimate” has always meant cut *by* a tenth. The Oxford dictionary considers the meaning cut *to* a tenth to be disputed usage.

I visit your website almost daily and have been greatly helped and encouraged by it. I just started wheeling in public and enjoy every minute of it. Feel so much more myself. Haven’t mastered opening doors yet.
I wheel in my own town and if anybody who knows me (as a regular customer in stores) ask me about the wheelchair, I just say “I’m fine. It’s temporary” and they calm down.
No lie in there. They don’t need any more info.
I had quite a shock today when I talked to a lady at some meeting (not in a wheelchair, didn’t want to freak out all those old people there who know me). She shared about her back problems and how her legs went numb and she couldn’t walk. And how “she is fine now and feels human again”. Human again? Wish I was sitting in a wheelchair at that moment…

Sean, you know your site and your e-mails helped me a lot in the past. Thank you. I haven’t been here for a while because I didn’t need it. Now I am just happy to follow up.