<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3649173364361206901</id><updated>2012-01-16T14:49:40.635-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hanging on for Life</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hangingonforlife.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3649173364361206901/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hangingonforlife.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Amy P</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08784984339749081074</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3649173364361206901.post-357110319606604444</id><published>2012-01-16T14:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T14:48:54.199-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Why I'm starting a blog</title><content type='html'>I know there are people out there who look down on bloggers.&amp;nbsp; They think people that blog have too much time on their hands or are over-sharers who post stuff that no one cares about.&amp;nbsp; Regardless of that, I've been toying with starting a blog for awhile now.&amp;nbsp; I'm thinking a blog for me might be a little like an online diary - someplace where I can just get out what's in my head&amp;nbsp;- with the added bonus that I might actually get some feedback from anyone who follows my blog that may (or may not) help me.&amp;nbsp; I'm also&amp;nbsp;hoping that the things I post may actually prove helpful to anyone who is suffering from the same affliction as I am - namely FAP and desmoid tumors.&amp;nbsp; Life has thrown me a lot of curve balls lately, and if anything I am going through can help someone down the road when they get their own diagnosis, then that is a good thing.&amp;nbsp; Anyway, being as I'm new to the whole blogging thing, this is going to be a work in progress and we'll just have to see how it goes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3649173364361206901-357110319606604444?l=hangingonforlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hangingonforlife.blogspot.com/feeds/357110319606604444/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://hangingonforlife.blogspot.com/2012/01/why-im-starting-blog.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3649173364361206901/posts/default/357110319606604444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3649173364361206901/posts/default/357110319606604444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hangingonforlife.blogspot.com/2012/01/why-im-starting-blog.html' title='Why I&apos;m starting a blog'/><author><name>Amy P</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08784984339749081074</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
