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NHBPM Day 1: “There’s always an app for that…”

      It's November which means only one thing - it's time again for the National Health Blog Post hosted by WEGO Health! And once again I am determined to take part and write a post everyday regarding my experiences with chronic illness. As a member of the Chronically Ill community or a 'spoonie' as we are more commonly referred (see my post regarding spoonies and the spoon theory here) I need a number of different apps for a variety of different reasons...

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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 11: Why I love to Tweet!

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: Write about your favourite social network.  Do you love Twitter? Facebook? Pinterest?  Why?  I can be found on most social networks - Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and Instagram!  Facebook used...

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