Putting our Heads Together

It's time to put our recently discovered blogging knowledge to the test. We are coming together as a class in hopes of creating a blog for Heal Magazine.

Cure Magazine is a quarterly magazine that is aimed at individuals living with cancer. It provides a way for cancer patients to understand the disease and how to deal with it on a daily basis. Heal magazine has evolved from Cure and will launch in the Spring of this year. Heal will focus their attention on educating cancer survivors on recovery, life after cancer and most importantly living well.

To learn more about Cure and Heal visit: http://curetoday.com and http://healtoday.com/

The blog will provide a place for cancer survivors, caregivers, and doctors the freedom to express their opinions and talk about recovery. There a millions of blogs that are similar to the one we hope to create for Heal. Simply type in “Cancer Survivorship Blog” on a Google search and you will find both personal and group blogs.

Here are a few blogs I found helpful and inspiring:

http://www.thecancerblog.com/

http://acscsn.org/

http://www.redtoenail.org/

http://www.lindiskin.com/cancer-skinny/

http://www.blogforacure.com/community

http://cancercreatives.com/pblog/index.php

As a class we are to come up with several sidebar topics for the blog site. The three that popped up in my head include:

*Fundraising – Staying Involved

*Families – We Are Survivors Too

*Get the Facts

It will be imperative that we put a disclaimer on the website explaining this blog is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice.

My personal vision for this blog would be to broaden it to Heal AND Cure. I think you are a survivor from the moment you are diagnosed. Just imagine, someone is told they have cancer. Where do they go? Cure Magazine? The chances are very high. They visit the website, discover the blog, and read blog posts from cancer survivors who once suffered from the same disease. Think about the hope that would instill in them when reading those personal stories. Survivors would feel satisfaction and joy after helping a fellow cancer “survivor”.

The blog would express the power of choice in survivorship and the idea of never giving up.