The New Year is here and we are all a year older. I remember a couple of years ago, my friend asked me how I plan to grow old. He was in his thirties and was suffering from cancer. He said that one of his worst fears was to be a burden to his family. He knows that many illnesses accompany old age, having lived with his grandmother and father who both suffered from dementia before they finally died.

When he was ill, his mother and sister were his caregivers. It was a very stressful time for everyone because it is never easy to provide caregiving to a loved on, especially one who is younger.

This morning, I was told of a caregiving resources site at http://www.agis.com/. I think that everyone of us should read through the site for valuable caregiving information. With the advancement of medicine, we are living longer but that does not mean that we are going to live at the best of health. I think that at one point or other in our lives, most of us will either end up being a caregiver or recipient.

AGIS, which stands for Assist Guide Information Services, provides caregivers resources especially for people who are planning for the future like what my friend did. This is also a good place to start to connect with other caregivers. People who are in this position know that it’s a long and lonely road ridden with doubts and guilt. Being a part of a support group would be an excellent way to build our mental strength.

Well, I got a fright this morning when my traffic remained 0 for a couple of blogs for the whole morning. I thought that it’s the holidays, 1st of the year is a pretty big day the world over and I am sure half the population is still passed out in bed and in no condition to surf the internet, let alone read blogs.

I then got a eerie, creepy, sick-in-the-stomach feeling when my stats still show a big fat zero for two particular blogs. I checked SITE: and LINK: at the search engines and everything seemed fine, thankfully.

As at now, one blog is still showing ZERO traffic while another shows a miserable 3. I checked with NuffNang which also records my traffic and they are a lot lower but definitely not ZERO.

I am not sure if the problem is with StatCounter or something else. Perhaps I should just forget about keeping track of my traffic numbers and just blog, blog and blog!