For the past few months, I’ve had a hard time getting in gear to publish the next “issue” of PCOS Today. Part of it, I’m sure, is the life change and geographical change I recently went through. I think I’m still trying to “get used to” everything. At the same time, I changed jobs/got a promotion, and life is downright crazy right now. I know…I should just stop whining, screw up my pride and just get organized. 

However, I was dx’d with PCOS something like seven (7) years ago. It has permeated my life for so long, and as so much, that I wonder if I need to expand my horizons. Perhaps I’ve become brored with the topic because I haven’t seen much change in my experience with the disorder in a rather long time. My fiance even mentioned that he wondered if focusing JUST on PCOS was creating too much of a niche and pigeon-holing me as a publisher. I am still (intermittantly) writing my teen-focused PCOS book (I need to get that done), though. Maybe I need to think broader and into different mediums. Should I work on the PCOS wiki (I established it but haven’t done a darn thing on it), look into social media a LOT more?

As I’ve discussed in this blog before, I do not intend to have children. I have two nephews and a niece whom I love to pieces and am happy to dote on. Someday, my fiance and I plan to get a cat or a dog (or multiples thereof), and these furry creatures of mischief will become our “children.” So the infertility issues of PCOS, I can heartedly say, don’t interest me that much. However, I wonder if my publishing focus should expand to one of “chronic reproductive illness,” of which, yes, infertility is included. 

As an academic (when I’m not focused on PCOS and whatnot, I teach college students about communication), I’ve started to focus on health education and promotion, and I have a definite interest in looking at PCOS and how its communicated. I think I need to find a way to tie the two together…my academic interests and my extra-curricular ‘publishing’ interests. I need input.