Help Me Help Others!

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

Dear readers, no, your eyes do not deceive you. It’s not the 15th, the day I promised to publish a blog post every month this year. It’s the 5th! (I actually meant to publish this on Monday the 1st, but I’ve been too brain fogged and exhausted and poorly to do so. I’m embarrassed at how many drafts this little post has required; I keep messing stuff up and have to go back and fix it! So if half this post is nonsense, please forgive me and my current, giant headache.)

I’m publishing early because, tada! I’m honored to say I’ve been nominated for ✵three✵ WEGO Health Awards: Best in Show: Blog, Best in Show: Facebook, and Best Kept Secret. 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: Simply click the link (or one of the images), scroll down to the orange “endorse dSavannah” button (under my photo), chose one of the three categories, and click the orange “nominate now” button. It’s that simple! And, I have been reliably informed that you can endorse me for all three categories. (Endorsements are open until July 28.)

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:

• Charis Hill, of Being Charis Blog, who I nominated and have mentioned on this blog quite a bit (and am a bit embarrassed by what I wrote; as I’m new to this, I didn’t realize they’d actually post my nomination reason for all to see!): endorse here
• Jo Moss from Journey Through The Fog, who writes about ME, fibro, mental health, and the like: endorse here
• Char of Chronically Hopeful, who uses her blog to “raise awareness of invisible chronic illness”; she also made 360!!! personal #MillionsMissing posters for other patients this year!: endorse here

Before you go:

Please donate to my Facebook fundraiser for my birthday, benefiting #MEAction!

This year for my birthday (7/11!), I’m asking for donations on Facebook for MEAction. Money spent on advocacy gives a great return on investment for research dollars: a 25 to 1 ratio of research dollars for advocacy dollars invested in disease-specific efforts! You can participate by donating on Facebook, or directly on the #MEActionNet website.

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