Real Time Medical Updates
If you happen to be reading this blog post on August 18th 2009:
I am, right now, having my broken humerus surgically repaired.
While I am not looking forward to having the actual surgery and the pain that shall go along with it, there is one aspect that I find rather appealing:
I’m covering my Arm Surgery live via Social Media!
Ok, so technically, I’m not going to be using social media because I will be unconscious, but my husband will be Tweeting and Twit-Pic-ing throughout my surgery. His Tweets will streamed live to both my blog and my Facebook status so that “my people” can know my surgery status and then I’ll take over updating once I am with the living again.
I figure if Katie Couric can let the world view her first colonoscopy on the air in 2000, then I can fully incorporate social media into every aspect of my life, even the yucky parts. I know I have read articles discussing how other patients have used various forms of blogs and social media to update friends and family members while in the hospital or while living with an illness. They report that it’s easy to share the news that way, their families feel connected and it’s not as exhausting telling everyone the same story over and over again. Like this story that is a perfect example of a family using Twitter to update everyone on a father son kidney transplant.
