Healthiest of greetings!

Well folks, it's official...Rocky53 n' I are officially buried!

Before I continue ANY further, I want everyone to I am NOT whining, begging for sympathy, complaining, expressing anger at anyone, or feeling sorry for myself.  What I am doing is offering everyone "full disclosure", so that they can understand what is happening (especially 'behind the scenes'), why I'm not answering posts promptly (or at all, seemingly)...and most of all, so that you can understand that I/we DO care very much what is going on, and we are BEYOND frazzled and that we're doing our best to get caught up & organized.

As many of you know, when I told the Webmaster I would accept/request a forum, I said I'd be making my request official in two-three weeks...as we needed to create an internet Storefront (easy for some, not-so-easy for us) and create the forum description, as well as all the foundational files/FAQ in that 2-3 weeks.  And I awoke the next day to find an opened forum with my name on it that had several questions that needed to be answered.

My first mistake? Not immediately contacting the Webmaster and asking him to close the forum.  The reason for that mistake? Simple - I wanted to help people with the questions they had regarding their health and I honestly thought it was a 'blessing in disguise' (as I am DEFINITELY a perfectionist, and I can become so obsessive over things like 'font size, type & color' that my entire project is delayed http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1379592#i )...and even though I knew how desperately the truth about natural healing was needed in, I didn't really conceive that it was possible for ANY Curezone forum to grow this rapidly.

What I thought would happen?  The forum would get a lot of immediate attention and then it would move to the 'bottom of the list' for a nice long growth stage; that we'd get the Storefront built, that a few people would do a few of the protocols while I had time to compose all the foundational files, FAQs, forum description...and we'd have a few more "orders" than we were used to in our 'herbal apothecary'.  And that those people that had started doing 'a few of the protocols' would (of course) be very successful, and then some of them would hang around a bit, do a bit more...and we'd all grow together on a 'steady upward trend'.  Hoo-boy, was I ever wrong!

#1 Who ever knew that when I posted my email address to the first person on the forum that lived out of the country, and told them we offered 'Schulze equivalent' products (priced reasonably and shipped via the least expensive method), that people all over the WORLD would find that information on Google (as well as US residents)?  :::shaking head::: not me! And you can NOT imagine how many!

#2 Who could have imagined that our lil' apothecary would have gone from shipping 3-4 orders a week, to shipping 35+ within 3 weeks of the forum opening?

#3 How does one deal with that kind of growth spurt in a business, as far as when/what/how much more to order and keep in stock? QUICKLY! (lol)

#4 Of course virtually everyone that placed an order had something nice to say (or several questions than needed answered) - and it took quite a few weeks for me to grasp the fact that I could NOT respond and be my 'chatty cheery self', and that I would be spending hours daily answering 'order questions', helping people set up PayPal accounts (etc), before I could even LOOK at forum posts.

#5  And those foundational files & FAQ became more and more critical to have posted every day, but the time was so limited the only time I had to work on them was while doing my daily coffee enema (which obviously, didn't work out at all).

And so I slid a bit more behind every day (EXCEPT on the orders! as people deserve to have their orders shipped & processed promptly). 

BUT everybody also deserves to have their health questions answered promptly, and everybody I committed to previously deserves to have me honor my commitment, and everybody that wants to learn to tincture deserves to know how, and everyone DESERVES everything I know and have to offer that's taken me almost a decade to learn.

My biggest "crunch" (and the thing that rips at my heart 24/7)?  I believe in the 'Healing ARTS', and I am fantastic "one on one".  I want people to KNOW what is happening in their body (because knowledge IS the key to health), and when y'all have (what I know are inconsequential) lil' aches, pains & reactions, I know that you are worried, stressed, have fear...and then stop doing what you need to be doing...if I don't respond quickly.  But now that I have a forum (without all the foundational files & FAQs 'at the ready' to point you too), I simply cannot BE the healer that I want to be.   By nature & choice, I am an explainer, teacher, motivator, nurturer & healer.  And the idea of responding with a short: "it's just a random reaction that's natural - don't worry about it and keep doing the protocol" (without teaching & explaining) is like sliding down two razor blades into a bucket of alcohol to my psyche and healers heart. 

I do NOT know HOW to be that kind of a healer...so folks, I'm on a HUGE learning curve here (and I'm simply LOST without all those foundational files/FAQs, so that I can answer "completely & thoroughly" by pointing you to numbers "1, 7, 9, 12 & 17".

Here's a list of what we're dealing with now "behind the scenes":

--Previous commitments to people doing the IP for incurable diseases - 3

--Previous commitments to other people I've been personally 'health coaching' - 7

(amount of those people that were willing to post on the forum, instead of 'the way we were doing it before'? two/three of 10, some don't "have internet"). 

----These commitments can take up to 2-3 hours daily...some days "zero hours", some days 6-7 hours.

--Eight-twelve emails daily from people "off CZ" that found us/me by Googling

--Two-ten orders daily (with the added questions those involve)

--Zero-five PMs daily from people who have things to ask that can't be asked publicly

----at 10-15 minutes "per item" (10-27 "items") that's 100/150 minutes - 270/405 minutes daily...maximum 6.75 hours daily.

--Apothecary duties (me) 30 minutes - 4 hours (shaking, organizing, ordering, dealing with suppliers that have NO idea what 'customer service' even LOOKS like.

--Backlog of emails, PM, and forum posts...at least 50 (some well over a week old) - as many hours as I can find/make.

--Time spent reading daily forum posts...5-7 minute snippets interspersed throughout every waking hour

--Daily coffee enemas (1-2) hours

--As you can see, I'm TOTALLY buried before I even begin to "handle life"...and yes, I *am* riddled with guilt & remorse & despair everytime I see a post from one of you needing help, and then 'clicking away' to handle something from days ago.

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SO, as soon as Rocky n' me make the 4-5 hour window we need to make a plan/schedule to get this thing organized so we CAN "unbury" me and transform this forum into the haven of healing it is going to be (and that everyone of you DESERVE it to be), you can understand that I will be taking 5-7 days totally away from the forum to 1) catch up 2) create the "books worth" of files & FAQs that are ESSENTIAL for the smooth operation of this forum, my sanity and your healing success!

My sanity? :::sigh::: I really AM starting to lose it (well, not really)- but the adrenal symptoms are starting to present themselves....so I'm "thinking slower", but needing desperately to "think faster"....and I'm "dreaming forum" everytime my head hits the pillow.

The one thing I know for SURE! ...you can be ASSURED that I am going win this fight!!  My husband and I have dedicated our LIVES & RETIREMENT to this forum and to helping others know & experience the truth of natural health & healing.  There's NO CHANCE I'm not going to meet this challenge with victory for ALL of us!!

Healthiest of blessings -

Uny & Rocky

P.S. Let it be known, that 'wings is going WAY above & beyond the call of duty...and she's doing it VALIANTLY!  She's always saying how much of a support I am to HER...but the truth is, her example & 'warrior spirit' (and time she spends devoted to helping others) is a BLAZING beacon of light & hope in what is sometimes a VERY stormy sea!