Yana and me

[Guest guest]

G’day folks,

I’d like to thank everyone who mailed me after

my recent posting when I said I was going off for a while. Several expressed

concern about my health, but there is nothing seriously wrong with me –

well apart from PCa and a heart condition!! I was just a bit weary because the workload

on the Yana site has been building to levels

that I was finding it difficult to cope with, so something had to be done.

Darryl Mittendorf may be known to some of you –

his website and organisation is Malecare http://www.malecare.com/

.. Some time back, when my heart condition was playing up a little I had agreed

with Darryl that he should take over the Yana site if and when I passed on and

so now I turned to him to ask him what he thought the best way forward would be

to keep Yana running. I knew that the site had

been built rather like a somewhat ramshackle shack, since I used whatever

software I could find and taught myself as I went along, but didn’t know

how to improve it. The site works now for most browsers, there are some

problems with others and there will be more problems in the future unless it is

changed . What Darryl has offered to do is to refurbish the site, using modern

software to make it easier to manage. This will be done without changing the

essence of the site – to provide information, especially to the newly

diagnosed, and to allow men to tell and update their stories.

I am heading off to the US for three weeks next Sunday (May

2). We’ll go to Las Vegas for a couple of

days then head up to Seattle to pick up a

vehicle and explore a bit of Washington

State and Oregon before getting home on May 25. Darryl

thinks he will have been able to get the 2010 version of Yana

up and running by the time I get back and if all is well, we’ll switch to

the new model then. Until that is done, the site will stay as it is and it will

not be possible to update existing stories or put new stories on the site. I hope

everyone understands and accepts the reason for this.

As far as I am concerned, my latest PSA shows another

increase (anyone interested can read the details at http://www.yananow.net/Mentors/TerryH.htm ) so I’ll be back on Zoladex in June for another go

at knocking these annoying cells down.

Again my thanks to all for the encouraging messages –

if you want to mail me with ideas about my trip, please do so Off List so that

you don’t clutter up the List.

All the best

Prostate men need enlightening, not frightening

Terry Herbert - diagnosed in 1996 and still going

strong

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