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HAWMC Day 30: Through Illness You Find Out Who Your True Friends Are…

Welcome to the Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge brought together by WEGO Health – a social network for all health activists.  Again, I am participating in the annual Writer’s Month Challenge in which I will be writing about my health activism and health condition based on given prompts. Thursday 30th April: I wish I would have known...

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The People I Love to Follow…

Welcome to the fifteenth day of the National Health Blog Post Month Challenge hosted by WEGO Health.  Every day during the month of November I will be writing a new blog post related to health and living with a chronic illness based on given prompts provided by WEGO Health. Today's prompt reads: Favourite Fridays: Who are your favourite people to follow on social media?  (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.)       The first person that I love to follow on Twitter is of course my best friend and...

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Social Media and the chronic illness experience

This post is for the 'Patients for a Moment Blog Carnival' hosted by Leslie at 'Getting Closer to Myself'. This month's theme is Social Media and illness, with which there are two parts!  The first part is to describe our illness using just 140 characters; just as if we were using Twitter to do so.  This could just be one statement characterising the illness experience, or a series of statements of 140 characters. The second part of the challenge asks us to...

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HAWMC 2013 Day 28: You Must Follow These Brilliant People…

    Welcome to the Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge brought together by WEGO Health – a social network for all health activists. Again, I am participating in the annual Writer’s Month Challenge in which I will be writing about my health activism and health condition based upon prompts given. Today’s prompt is as follows: Create a must follow list for your community on a single social network.  Share your top 5-10 tweeters, bloggers, or Facebook pages.  I so wish that I could share some...

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