Well, it’s official!

I finally took the plunge and registered my website name! http://www.DevonTexas.com  I’m so pleased with myself and I’m appreciative of the readers that visit here and read my posts.

In the first post on this blog site I wrote about my intentions.  That was June 11, 2012!  Happy Anniversary to me and to my readers!  You can read that post HERE. 

I spent the last year writing and evolving.  It’s been a wonderful experience.  Initially I figured I could blend both my creative writing efforts and my posts about dialysis into one single blog (this one) but I discovered that it got a bit confusing so I created another blog called LegacyTales where I could ramble about my memories of over six decades of life.  Alas, I couldn’t combine both my creative writing and my dialysis blog in one place.  So, this blog is principally about dialysis (unless I digress for an occasional moment as I am prone to do).

In the brief 12 months, I’ve been to Washington, D, C. and my state capitol  to lobby Legislators  on behalf of dialysis and kidney transplant patients.  I’ve participated in dozens of conference calls about dialysis issues.  I’ve attended gatherings in Dallas and Houston to work on dialysis-related projects and plans with Medicare and the ESRD Network of Texas.   It’s been a very busy year. 

In the last year, I’ve written over fourteen thousand tweets as @DevonTexas on Twitter.  I’ve written nearly 120 posts on this blog and several others on LegacyTales.  I even wrote an essay about my school days experience for my high school’s alumni magazine.

Writing has never been my conscious passion.  I wrote because I had to over the many years I was in school or working.  But now I can write because I want to and I have a passion for writing about all things associated with dialysis.  It occupies many hours of my week but as long as I get the support and encouragement from my readers, I know I’m doing the right thing.  As long as I know other dialysis patients benefit from my posts, I’m driven to write another and another.  In fact, I have a few dozen notes for topics on this website and in my table computer that I take to my dialysis sessions.  I’m always getting ideas from my experiences with in-center hemodialysis and from reader comments.

I’m currently working on something near and dear to my heart, the design of the the dialysis center and treatment station.  I’m trying to figure out how to present that.  It’s far too long for one post.  It’ll probably be multiple posts starting with my recent visit to a Dialyspa center and having an eye-opening experience of how a good center should look!  I can’t wait to share that with you!

So, long story short, if you want to come here, you can simply type in DevonTexas.com now!  Yay!  It works!  I googled it myself and it worked. I’m a WEBSITE!  Thank you all, readers, for making that possible!