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From what I gathered, jdolce27 of mynhlfight.wordpress.com is in her 30's, a teacher at a residential college, an owner of two cats (her husband, Jeff, is the other animal parent), and a cancer survivor. Her posts are all very relatable to me considering that we were and continue to still have similar experiences. A lot of the way she has written over the span of her blog have been updates on her own health as well as general information about everything involved (from the disease to the treatment process/side effects to life in remission and everything in between) for those that may not know as much as we do on the topic. She has been blogging since 2013 and was diagnosed in 2012 and posted every month for a while until 2014/2015 where there were a few scattered posts/updates and then her latest on March 28, 2016 acknowledging that she hadn't been writing in a while but updated us all on her cancer status and what side effects and life changes still linger with her today. Her blog's layout is pretty bland and simple (grey on grey) leaving no room for distraction from the message she may be trying to get across. Though it may seem a little more boring/depressing than some of her posts I feel as though it just makes everything easier to read and go through. Her blogroll shows that she has a lot of information on the topic-- after all, it is a blog on her long, personal journey battling cancer and her comments to the many questions/statements about how thankful people are that she is posting about this at all shows that she cares and is glad to be a source of relatable or easy to understand information.
Her first post was so genuine to me because she stated that she felt "the need to blog about [my] experiences (in as honest a way as [I] can muster) so that my friends and family can easily keep up with [my] progress" and that is exactly what I want to achieve with my own posts. The process to her being diagnosed was almost exactly like mine-- starting with symptoms that were so normal that doctors almost immediately overlooked them and ending in an x-ray that would "set off a domino effect that would ultimately lead to [my] general cancer diagnosis...and first chemotherapy treatment eight days later." A post like this scares most people because the second they read "cold symptoms" they basically go psycho-web-MD and self diagnosis themselves with a crazy disease that they'll probably never get...but it also makes known the importance of following up with a doctor if something really doesn't feel right with you and that will always be important to me from now on.
In her most recent post 'Things no one tells you about being a survivor..."  she basically writes a letter to her past self that was about to be diagnosed talking about what there was to expect down the line. I agreed with almost everything in her list from side effects with neuropathy, immune system problems, and "chemo brain." This very real post shows to her viewers that even years later and in remission, a cancer survivor's life really revolves around their battle with cancer even after all the treatment is finished. It also, to me, says that the author cares enough about her audience and the cancer community to take the time to update them after about an eight month absence from her own blog.