Cushing's Awareness Day Challenge 2015

The Cushing's Awareness Challenge is almost upon us again!

Do you blog? Want to get started?

Since April 8 is Cushing's Awareness Day, several people got their heads together to create the Fourth Annual Cushing's Awareness Blogging Challenge.

All you have to do is blog about something Cushing's related for the 30 days of April.

There will also be a logo for your blog to show show you've participated.

Please let me know the URL to your blog in the comments area of this post or an email  and I will list it on CushieBloggers ( http://cushie-blogger.blogspot.com/)

The more people who participate, the more the word will get out about Cushing's.

Suggested topics - or add your own!

• In what ways have Cushing's made you a better person?
• What have you learned about the medical community since you have become sick?
• If you had one chance to speak to an endocrinologist association meeting, what would you tell them about Cushing's patients?
• What would you tell the friends and family of another Cushing's patient in order to garner more emotional support for your friend? challenge with Cushing's? How have you overcome challenges? Stuff like that.
• I have Cushing's Disease....(personal synopsis)
• How I found out I have Cushing's
• What is Cushing's Disease/Syndrome? (Personal variation, i.e. adrenal or pituitary or ectopic, etc.)
• My challenges with Cushing's
• Overcoming challenges with Cushing's (could include any challenges)
• If I could speak to an endocrinologist organization, I would tell them....
• What would I tell others trying to be diagnosed?
• What would I tell families of those who are sick with Cushing's?
• Treatments I've gone through to try to be cured/treatments I may have to go through to be cured.
• What will happen if I'm not cured?
• I write about my health because…
• 10 Things I Couldn’t Live Without.
• My Dream Day.
• What I learned the hard way
• Miracle Cure. (Write a news-style article on a miracle cure. What’s the cure? How do you get the cure? Be sure to include a disclaimer)
• Health Madlib Poem. Go to : http://languageisavirus.com/cgi-bin/madlibs.pl#.VPGZQlPF9A8 and fill in the parts of speech and the site will generate a poem for you.
• The Things We Forget. Visit http://thingsweforget.blogspot.com/ and make your own version of a short memo reminder. Where would you post it?
• Give yourself, your condition, or your health focus a mascot. Is it a real person? Fictional? Mythical being? Describe them. Bonus points if you provide a visual!
• 5 Challenges & 5 Small Victories.
• The First Time I…
• Make a word cloud or tree with a list of words that come to mind when you think about your blog, health, or interests. Use a thesaurus to make it branch more.
• How much money have you spent on Cushing's, or, How did Cushing's impact your life financially?
• Why do you think Cushing's may not be as rare as doctors believe?
• What is your theory about what causes Cushing's?
• How has Cushing's altered the trajectory of your life? What would you have done? Who would you have been
• What three things has Cushing's stolen from you? What do you miss the most? What can you do in your Cushing's life to still achieve any of those goals?
• What new goals did Cushing's bring to you?
• How do you cope?
• What do you do to improve your quality of life as you fight Cushing's?
• Your thoughts...?

For Cushing's Awareness Challenge Bloggers

Cushie bloggers - who would like to share your post on April 8 (Cushing's Awareness Day) with our friends at Adrenal Insufficiency United, on their blog?

Also, they are interested in sharing others of our posts from April.  Please let me know if I have your permission to share your blog post(s) with them.  I won't without your permission.

Thanks!

Cushing's Awareness Blogging Challenge 2013

Do you blog? Want to get started?

Since April 8 is Cushing's Awareness Day, several people got their heads together to create the Second Annual Cushing's Awareness Blogging Challenge.

All you have to do is blog about something Cushing's related for the 30 days of April.

Robin designed this year's version of our "official logo" to put on your blogs.

 

 If your blog wants you to upload an image from your desktop, right-click on the image above and choose "save-as". Remember where you saved it to! 

 To link to the image with the yellow border, use this URL: http://www.cushings-help.com/images/challenge-2013b.jpg 

 To link to the image without a border, use this URL: http://www.cushings-help.com/images/challenge-2013nb.jpg 

 In all cases, the URL for the site is http://www.cushings-help.com 

Please let me know the URL to your blog in the comments area of this post or and I will list it on CushieBloggers ( http://cushie-blogger.blogspot.com/ ) 

The more people who participate, the more the word will get out about Cushing's. 

  Suggested topics - or add your own!

In what ways have Cushing's made you a better person?
What have you learned about the medical community since you have become sick?
If you had one chance to speak to an endocrinologist association meeting, what would you tell them about Cushing's patients?
What would you tell the friends and family of another Cushing's patient in order to garner more emotional support for your friend?
Challenges with Cushing's? How have you overcome challenges? Stuff like that.
I have Cushing's Disease....(personal synopsis)
How I found out I have Cushing's
What is Cushing's Disease/Syndrome? (Personal variation, i.e. adrenal or pituitary or ectopic, etc.)
My challenges with Cushing's
Overcoming challenges with Cushing's (could include any challenges)
If I could speak to an endocrinologist organization, I would tell them...
. What would I tell others trying to be diagnosed? What would I tell families of those who are sick with Cushing's?
Treatments I've gone through to try to be cured/treatments I may have to go through to be cured.
What will happen if I'm not cured?
I write about my health because...
10 Things I Couldn’t Live Without.
My Dream Day.
What I learned the hard way
Miracle Cure. (Write a news-style article on a miracle cure. What’s the cure? How do you get the cure? Be sure to include a disclaimer)
Health Madlib Poem. Go to http://languageisavirus.com/cgi-bin/madlibs.pl and fill in the parts of speech and the site will generate a poem for you.
The Things We Forget. Visit http://thingsweforget.blogspot.com/ and make your own version of a short memo reminder. Where would you post it?
Give yourself, your condition, or your health focus a mascot. Is it a real person? Fictional? Mythical being? Describe them. Bonus points if you provide a visual!
5 Challenges and 5 Small Victories.
The First Time I...
Make a word cloud or tree with a list of words that come to mind when you think about your blog, health, or interests. Use a thesaurus to make it branch more.
How much money have you spent on Cushing's, or, How did Cushing's impact your life financially?
Why do you think Cushing's may not be as rare as doctors believe?
What is your theory about what causes Cushing's?
How has Cushing's altered the trajectory of your life? What would you have done? Who would you have been?
What three things has Cushing's stolen from you? What do you miss the most? What can you do in your Cushing's life to still achieve any of those goals? What new goals did Cushing's bring to you?
How do you cope?
What do you do to improve your quality of life as you fight Cushing's?
Your thoughts...?

Counting Today There Are Only Six Days Left...

...To support Cushing's patients by only clicking a link. Click here to make a difference!

Feel free to share the link around, click more than once, post to Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.  Every click is worth $5.00 to Cushing's organizations which support patients.

Thank you for your support!

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Support Cushing's ...With A Click.

From Corcept, the makers of Korlym:

Corcept Therapeutics will donate $5 for every person who clicks to support people with Cushing's. Corcept has jump-started the effort to build awareness and support with a $15,000 contribution to provide support through the Cushing's Support and Research Foundation and Cushing's Help.

With your support, we can aim even higher!*

Take part...and spread the word.

*Donations up to $30,000. Program ends April 20, 2012

Click here to make a difference!

 

Day Eight, Cushing's Awareness Challenge

It's Here!

 

Dr. Cushing was born in Cleveland Ohio. The fourth generation in his family to become a physician, he showed great promise at Harvard Medical School and in his residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital (1896 to 1900), where he learned cerebral surgery under William S. Halsted

After studying a year in Europe, he introduced the blood pressure sphygmomanometer to the U.S.A. He began a surgical practice in Baltimore while teaching at Johns Hopkins Hospital (1901 to 1911), and gained a national reputation for operations such as the removal of brain tumors. From 1912 until 1932 he was a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and surgeon in chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, with time off during World War I to perform surgery for the U.S. forces in France; out of this experience came his major paper on wartime brain injuries (1918). In addition to his pioneering work in performing and teaching brain surgery, he was the reigning expert on the pituitary gland since his 1912 publication on the subject; later he discovered the condition of the pituitary now known as "Cushing's disease".

Read more about Dr. Cushing

Today, April 8th, is Cushing's Awareness Day. Please wear your Cushing's ribbons, t-shirts, awareness bracelets or Cushing's colors (blue and yellow) and hand out Robin's wonderful Awareness Cards to get a discussion going with anyone who will listen.

And don't just raise awareness on April 8.  Any day is a good day to raise awareness.

 

 

It's Cushing's Awareness Day! Help Cushing's Help at No Cost to You

 

Support Cushing's ...With A Click.

From Corcept, the makers of Korlym:

They say: "Corcept Therapeutics will donate $5 for every person who clicks to support people with Cushing's. Corcept has jump-started the effort to build awareness and support with a $15,000 contribution to provide support through the Cushing's Support and Research Foundation and Cushing's Help.

With your support, we can aim even higher!*

Take part...and spread the word.

*Donations up to $30,000. Program ends April 20, 2012"

Click here to make a difference!

 

A Simple Mouse Click to Help Support Cushing's Awareness Day!

Support Cushing's ...With A Click.

From Corcept, the makers of Korlym:

They say: "Corcept Therapeutics will donate $5 for every person who clicks to support people with Cushing's. Corcept has jump-started the effort to build awareness and support with a $15,000 contribution to provide support through the Cushing's Support and Research Foundation and Cushing's Help. With your support, we can aim even higher!*

Take part...and spread the word.

*Donations up to $30,000. Program ends April 20, 2012"

Click here to make a difference!

Cushing's Awareness Challenge

Do you blog? Want to get started?

Since April 8 is Cushing's Awareness Day, several people got their heads together to create this blogging challenge. 

All you have to do is blog about something Cushing's related for the 30 days of April. Robin designed 3 versions of our "official logo" to put on your blogs.

Please note that these are thumbnails - the actual image is larger than shown here. Click on the images to view actual size.

If your blog wants you to upload an image from your desktop, right-click on the image above and choose "save-as". Remember where you saved it to!

In all cases, the URL for the site is http://www.cushings-help.com

[[posterous-content:pid___0]]Small. If your blog asks you to enter the URL, use this: 

Medium. If your blog asks you to enter the URL, use this: 

Large. If your blog asks you to enter the URL, use this: 

 

 

Please let me know the URL to your blog and I will list it on CushieBloggers ( http://cushie-blogger.blogspot.com/ ) The more people who participate, the more the word will get out about Cushing's.

 

Suggested topics - or add your own!

1. In what ways have Cushing's made you a better person? 
2. What have you learned about the medical community since you have become sick? 
3. If you had one chance to speak to an endocrinologist association meeting, what would you tell them about Cushing's patients? 
4. What would you tell the friends and family of another Cushing's patient in order to garner more emotional support for your friend? challenge with Cushing's? How have you overcome challenges? Stuff like that. 
5. I have Cushing's Disease....(personal synopsis) 
6. How I found out I have Cushing's 
7. What is Cushing's Disease/Syndrome? (Personal variation, i.e. adrenal or pituitary or ectopic, etc.) 
8. My challenges with Cushing's 
9. Overcoming challenges with Cushing's (could include any challenges) 
10. If I could speak to an endocrinologist organization, I would tell them.... 
11. What would I tell others trying to be diagnosed? What would I tell families of those who are sick with Cushing's? 
12. Treatments I've gone through to try to be cured/treatments I may have to go through to be cured. 
13. What will happen if I'm not cured? 
14. I write about my health because… 
15. 10 Things I Couldn’t Live Without. 
16. My Dream Day. 
17. What I learned the hard way 
18. Miracle Cure. (Write a news-style article on a miracle cure. What’s the cure? How do you get the cure? Be sure to include a disclaimer) 
19. Health Madlib Poem. Go to : http://languageisavirus.com/cgi-bin/madlibs.pl and fill in the parts of speech and the site will generate a poem for you. 
20. The Things We Forget. Visit http://thingsweforget.blogspot.com/ and make your own version of a short memo reminder. Where would you post it? 
21. Give yourself, your condition, or your health focus a mascot. Is it a real person? Fictional? Mythical being? Describe them. Bonus points if you provide a visual! 
22. 5 Challenges & 5 Small Victories. 
23. The First Time I… 
24. Make a word cloud or tree with a list of words that come to mind when you think about your blog, health, or interests. Use a thesaurus to make it branch more. 
25. How much money have you spent on cushing's, or, How did Cushing's impact your life financially?
26. Why do you think Cushing's may not be as rare as doctors believe? 
27. What is your theory about what causes Cushing's? 
28. How has Cushing's altered the trajectory of your life? What would you have done? Who would you have been? 
29. What three things has Cushing's stolen from you? What do you miss the most? What can you do in your Cushing's life to still achieve any of those goals? What new goals did Cushing's bring to you? 
30. How do you cope? 
31. What do you do to improve your quality of life as you fight Cushing's?
32. Your thoughts...?

 

Cushing's Awareness Challenge

Do you blog? Want to get started?

Since April 8 is Cushing's Awareness Day, several people got their heads together to create this blogging challenge. 

All you have to do is blog about something Cushing's related for the 30 days of April. Robin designed 3 versions of our "official logo" to put on your blogs.

Please note that these are thumbnails - the actual image is larger than shown here. Click on the images to view actual size.

If your blog wants you to upload an image from your desktop, right-click on the image above and choose "save-as". Remember where you saved it to!

In all cases, the URL for the site is http://www.cushings-help.com

See the full gallery on Posterous

Small. If your blog asks you to enter the URL, use this:

Medium. If your blog asks you to enter the URL, use this:

Large. If your blog asks you to enter the URL, use this:

 

Please let me know the URL to your blog and I will list it on CushieBloggers ( http://cushie-blogger.blogspot.com/ ) The more people who participate, the more the word will get out about Cushing's.

 

Suggested topics - or add your own!

1. In what ways have Cushing's made you a better person? 
2. What have you learned about the medical community since you have become sick? 
3. If you had one chance to speak to an endocrinologist association meeting, what would you tell them about Cushing's patients? 
4. What would you tell the friends and family of another Cushing's patient in order to garner more emotional support for your friend? challenge with Cushing's? How have you overcome challenges? Stuff like that. 
5. I have Cushing's Disease....(personal synopsis) 
6. How I found out I have Cushing's 
7. What is Cushing's Disease/Syndrome? (Personal variation, i.e. adrenal or pituitary or ectopic, etc.) 
8. My challenges with Cushing's 
9. Overcoming challenges with Cushing's (could include any challenges) 
10. If I could speak to an endocrinologist organization, I would tell them.... 
11. What would I tell others trying to be diagnosed? What would I tell families of those who are sick with Cushing's? 
12. Treatments I've gone through to try to be cured/treatments I may have to go through to be cured. 
13. What will happen if I'm not cured? 
14. I write about my health because… 
15. 10 Things I Couldn’t Live Without. 
16. My Dream Day. 
17. What I learned the hard way 
18. Miracle Cure. (Write a news-style article on a miracle cure. What’s the cure? How do you get the cure? Be sure to include a disclaimer) 
19. Health Madlib Poem. Go to : http://languageisavirus.com/cgi-bin/madlibs.pl and fill in the parts of speech and the site will generate a poem for you. 
20. The Things We Forget. Visit http://thingsweforget.blogspot.com/ and make your own version of a short memo reminder. Where would you post it? 
21. Give yourself, your condition, or your health focus a mascot. Is it a real person? Fictional? Mythical being? Describe them. Bonus points if you provide a visual! 
22. 5 Challenges & 5 Small Victories. 
23. The First Time I… 
24. Make a word cloud or tree with a list of words that come to mind when you think about your blog, health, or interests. Use a thesaurus to make it branch more. 
25. How much money have you spent on cushing's, or, How did Cushing's impact your life financially?
26. Why do you think Cushing's may not be as rare as doctors believe? 
27. What is your theory about what causes Cushing's? 
28. How has Cushing's altered the trajectory of your life? What would you have done? Who would you have been? 
29. What three things has Cushing's stolen from you? What do you miss the most? What can you do in your Cushing's life to still achieve any of those goals? What new goals did Cushing's bring to you? 
30. How do you cope? 
31. What do you do to improve your quality of life as you fight Cushing's?
32. Your thoughts...?