Sorry for the big gap in posts - it has been crazy busy here lately! Mix in a nasty fight with the flu that seemed it would never end, a week in the hospital, working crazy hours at my day job, and the launch of four new free traffic websites and you start getting the picture of what a crazy life I've had lately.
Before I get into the new websites and all that I want to tell you how I ended up spending a week in the hospital for something that was so easy to prevent it is just crazy. First I have to admit - my eating habits are wicked bad. I'm a long time computer geek, am single and always busy. So food for me is something I toss in the microwave and munch on while working. I came down with the flu first and followed it up with a nasty cough that came very close to going into pneumonia. During all the time that was going on, I had no energy but was still working constantly and eating worse and worse. By the last week before going into the hospital I had stopped eating. All I was doing was drinking soda and propel. I finally went to the ER because of the cough and they gave me cough syrup with codeine... turns out I'm allergic to codeine. I started getting really confused and lost my short term memory. I don't remember much about a couple days there but it was getting worse and worse. Lucky for me my friends realized something was going really wrong and they came to check on me and ended up calling 911. After nearly a week in the hospital they started me on B1 and within a day and a half my brain started clearing up.
By the second day I was able to be released from the hospital. I've been through all kinds of tests trying to figure out the reason I ran so low on B1 and the only explanation they can come up with is malnutrition.
I think the thing that scared me the most was B1 deficiency hits your brain - which means you can't save yourself. You have to have someone else realize there is a problem and act on it. I've always depended on my brain - my day job is a UNIX server admin - troubleshooting is my bread and butter. I have to be able to think and remember. It took a couple weeks on B1 before I started finally feeling like my brain was coming back up to speed. Now it has been just over a month since I've been out of the hospital and I don't miss a day of taking my vitamins. I'm trying to eat better, sleep more regular and stuff like that but even just the addition of a good multi-vitamin plus an extra B1 has got me feeling a good ten years younger. And it was so very simple to prevent if I had any idea it was happening.
Now, looking back I can see symptoms going back at least a year but much more seriously over the 3-4 months before I went in the hospital. I noticed my memory getting worse - I assumed it was because of age. I turned 40 last summer so I really thought that was what was going on. Wrong. So if you take nothing else from this - find a good multi-vitamin and take it. If your memory starts going downhill - try some B1 and see if that helps. It's an easy fix - I think a bottle of B1 was like $3 at walgreens.
Okay - so that was my public service announcement - on to the rest of my update...
Like I said - I have four new sites - two traffic exchanges and two text ad exchanges... I launched WhyClickTraffic.com and WhyClickAds.com
before my hospital stay and TrafficWolves.com and TextAdWolf.com a week ago.
I love the script the traffic exchanges run on. I knew the first time I surfed an exchange with this script that it was the one I wanted. It has a progressive surf ratio so the more you surf, the more you get for surfing. You don't have to use credits for banner or text links - they are in rotation as long as you have credits in your account. There are surf contests and lottery drawings and random credit give aways. It's just a great traffic exchange for surfers - which is why I had to have it! Check it out for yourself at WhyClickTraffic.com and TrafficWolves.com
My first text ad exchange - WhyClickAds.com - has a special offer going for the first 300 members - we only have about 85 more openings before this special is gone for good... you get a free pro membership, 3 solo ads and 1 banner with 1000 credits - just for signing up. (Hint: there is also a special offer on the member page that you can get a free gold upgrade at http://www.WhyClickTraffic.com as well).
My newest text exchange TextAdWolf.com is running on the very popular script like TextAdProfits.com made famous. I'm getting ready to start a big referral contest there so keep your eyes open. But until then - if you sign up, then click on advertising and enter promo code startmeup you will get 3 solo ads and 3 banners with 1000 credits each, plus 1000 extra credits.
So that is, believe it or not, the short version of what has been going on here the last several months. Hopefully your life has been much calmer than mine!
Peace & Much Success,
Carol
PS Take your vitamins!!!!!

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