Help Me Help Others! – year 2

Click this photo to go straight to my profile and endorse me!

For the second year in a row, I’m honored to say I’ve been nominated for ✵three✵ WEGO Health Awards: Advocating for Another, Best in Show: Blog, and Best in Show: Facebook. That means someone (I’m not sure who, but thank you!) thinks I’m a #PatientLeader who is “making a difference in the online health community”!

So here’s where you come in: you can “endorse me” on the site. Simply click the link (or one of the images) to go right to the “Awards” page on my profile, and click one of the light blue thumbs-up.

A window will popup that says “Please tap on awards you wish to endorse dSavannah for:” with the three categories under it. Once you click on a category (or all three; I’ve been reliably informed that you can endorse me for all three categories), a blue “endorse” button will show on the bottom of the pop-up. Click it, and it will ask for your name and email, and that’s it!

Endorsements are open until July 31.

As the WEGO people put it: “Think of it as a way to give a shout-out or virtual hug to your favorite Patient Leaders.” (In this case, yours truly! And I’m grateful to every single person who takes the time to do so.)

How does this help me help others? Well, by endorsing me, and then sharing that you’ve done so, I hope this will help other patients find my blog, and that way my words and my advocacy will help even more people! (Did I use the word “help” enough in this paragraph? 😉 )

If you’re wondering who in the heck is WEGO health, according to their about page, “WEGO Health is a mission-driven company connecting healthcare with the experience, skills and insights of Patient Leaders.” This blog post explains How The WEGO Health Awards Work, a “program created to recognize and honor those making a difference in the online health community.”

FYI, “the endorsement process helps select top Patient Leaders to move on to the finalist round. The three most endorsed nominees in each WEGO Health Award category will automatically become a finalist.”

Now, I don’t expect I’ll be one of the top three most endorsed nominees in any category (in 2018, they received over 4,000 nominations!), but I certainly appreciate the shout-outs and support!

You can also endorse other advocates I follow who have been nominated:

• Brianne Benness of the podcast and Medium series No End In Sight: endorse here

• Char of Chronically Hopeful, who uses her blog to “raise awareness of invisible chronic illness”, primarily MEcfs: endorse here

• Michelle Curtis, The Zebra Pit Health and Wellness Blog: endorse here

• Jo Moss from Journey Through The Fog, who writes about ME, fibro, mental health, and the like: endorse here

• Sheryl Chan from A Chronic Voice; she also runs several groups on Facebook to help Chronic Illness Bloggers find support and promotion: endorse here

• Jenna Farmer who helps run an organization for Chronic Illness Bloggers to connect brands with bloggers (and I got to review a great pain spray): endorse here

Note: the person’s name is linked to their twitter account; then I’ve linked to their blog or other site; then the last link is to endorse them for the awards. And if you were nominated and I didn’t include you, please forgive me. I’m out of spoons, brain power, and energy!

Before you go:

Please consider donating to organizations that help patients like me: research organizations looking for a biomarker and a cure: Open Medicine Foundation or SolveMECFSInitiative; or #MEActionNet, an organization that focuses on advocacy. Donate online with a credit card, giftcard, or paypal!

If you’d like to support me directly, you can do so:

• with a $3 tip at ko-fi.com/dsavannah. Occasionally I post photos there that I don’t post anywhere else.
• or sending me something from my Amazon wishlist (now conveniently separated into categories: Miscellaneous stuff., books for my hoard!, dSavannah’s health needs, low priority: crafty stuff, and music I’d like).

Your support keeps me going, even in tough times. Thank you for stopping by my blog.