Fun Facts About My Blog

     I felt like sharing some fun facts about my blog. As anyone knows who has a blog, there is a section where you can look up stats. One of my favorite stats to check in on, is the audience. I am amazed at how my little story about my huge pelvic pain issue, has spread across the world. I had no idea my story would be followed by so many people, and in so many countries.

      Me and my husband started my blog because we thought this would be the best way for our friends and family to check in on my progress, while on the other side of the world. We felt that two weeks would be a long time for our close friends and neighbors to wait to hear of any results. We also felt that our kids, and our family helping with our kids, would probably get bombarded with questions day after day while we were away. So we created this blog to make it easier to get updates, and without everybody needing to rely on my kids or our parents for any information. I knew updates wouldn't be enough, I knew that there would be a lot of questions on why we were even going out of the country for a surgery, and about the issues that created me needing this surgery in the first place. So I started to share my story, so everyone would have a better understanding of what brought us to the decision of going to Turkey for surgery.

     Before leaving for Turkey, I think I had only gotten about 9 post published, I still needed to share more of my story, but decided to put it on hold, so I could post about our upcoming journey to Turkey. At the time I had just over 300 page views, but, what I found to be the most interesting, is I noticed my audience consisted of not only the United States, but Germany, Turkey, Russia, and South Korea as well. I felt a little surprised, because I assure you I didn't know anyone outside of the U.S., with the exception of a good friend who had recently moved to Germany. Assuming this was why Germany was a part of my audience, she told me that she hadn't gotten a chance to check out my blog yet.

      One week before leaving, I joined facebook, specifically to join a PN support group that I had recently learned about. I put my very first post on FB, explaining how I had felt so alone living with this condition, and how surprised I was by the number of people who suffered with PN just like me. (over 250 to be exact) I also shared that I was leaving for Turkey to have pudendal nerve decompression surgery in a little over a week. The response was overwhelming, other than sharing the same debilitating condition of  PN that gave us all a common connection, these strangers soon became my friends. I found this to be such a coincidence, or just one of life's little ways of giving me exactly what I needed at that particular time. Everyone was so kind, and there was a continual out pouring of support and prayers being sent my way. They all wished for me to have a pain free life, and wanted me to keep them posted on my progress. I no longer felt alone in my fight against PNE,  and over the last couple of weeks, my PN group has turned into a lot more than just friends, but more like family. Thanks FB PN Support Group!

     Well with that being said, while we were in Turkey I watched my page views grow and grow, and everyday I was seeing new Countries added to my audience. I had no idea that my story would have such an impact on people all over the world. I am completely overwhelmed that this blog has reached out to so many people like me, and I thank you all, for joining me in my journey to a pain free life.

     So here are the stats to date, I now have almost 5000 page views. My mother in-law assures me that at least 2000 of those are her, ha, ha, I think that's funny. The page views are not too big of a deal, where I am completely surprised, is by the audience stats. Obviously the United States is my biggest audience, with over 3000 views. It's the other 1500 plus view that completely shocks me, but in an exciting way. Turkey comes in second, with over 400 views, I know Prof. Erdogru follows my story and progress, but I doubt all 400 of those views are him alone. The next 1000 views comes from audiences all around the world, let me share. United Kingdom, Canada, Russia, Israel, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, France, Germany, Italy, Finland, Ireland, Switzerland, Austria, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Latvia, Romania, Greece, Croatia, Macedonia, Cyprus, Ukraine, Iraq, Uzbekistan, Bulgaria, India, Sri Lanka, Japan, Malaysia, Guam, Spain, Philippines, South Africa, Georgia, Guatemala, Poland, China, and South Korea.

      Unbelievable, I am amazed! I'm sure that a lot of my audience in the other countries come mostly from the PN facebook support group. There has been a lot of positives in starting my blog, I was a little hesitant at first, because sharing my story about the most private parts of my body, isn't exactly easy. First of all, I have had the opportunity to talk to some of these people from here (U.S.) and also in the other countries, who suffer just like me. Talking to someone who understands exactly what I am going through is a big comfort. Also, this has opened my eyes, I had no idea PN was such a big issue, and I now know, although it is a rare chronic pelvic pain condition, that PN affects people from all around the world.

     For everyone who has been following along on this journey of mine, Thank you! This has given me something to look forward to everyday, and has revived my inner energy. What a great healing instrument this has been during my recovery process.