In February of this year, I decided to post a fact about mast cell disease every day for Rare Diseases Month. I honestly had no idea how much attention that would generate. People asked if I had a blog, so I decided to start one. I started posting on April 26 of this year. Since then, this blog has had over 21,000 page views, about 1,000 a week, and has been read in over 50 countries. I am really humbled that so many people find this helpful.
When I started the blog, I transferred over all the posts I had done for Rare Diseases Month. These posts are very short, and comprise the posts on this blog dated before April 26. I have noticed recently that some of those are being read frequently now, so I am going to go back and revise them to reflect the style of my later posts. Once I do, these posts will be republished. These include the Mixed Organic Brain post, symptoms posts, and a bunch of others.
Most of the posts I have done have been on mastocytosis, which is more well studied and documented. But I don't want the MCAS and MMAS kids to feel left out, which is why for the month of October, I will be doing daily posts about mast cell activation syndrome, with additional posts on monoclonal mast cell activation syndrome.
As always, please feel free to email me at Lisa.Klimas@gmail.com if you have questions you would prefer to ask privately. Thanks so much for reading.
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