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How social networking help patients with ALS

While enjoying the social networking world today, I was appalled with the news I’ve read regarding the significance of social networking towards patients. With the fast pace innovation of technologies, patients are given the chance to live life normally. Social networking is one of their outlets to find solutions or treatments about their disease.

By the way, have you already heard about the ALS disease or the Lou Gehrig’s disease? Accordingly, it is a disease which doesn’t have a chance of recovery or incurable. In the news I’ve read, one patient of this incurable disease was thinking that she doesn’t have the chance to live. Since all parts of her body except her brain didn’t function, her only companion on her life aside from her love-ones is the social networking. Thanks to the fast pace technology innovation, patients like her or with ALS have already reasons why they should continue to live.

The said patient actually doesn’t do networking for making friends, but indeed looking for a website that could help her find treatments for her disease. Literally, though doctors know well about the disease however, most patients who carry this kind of disease are still looking for a place to share their illness experience and somehow could find the best solution of their problems. Yes doctors indeed can answer these patients’ medical questions however; they could not help them cure the impact on their individual life.

The role of social networking on the incurable ALS disease is to record all kind of diseases and its information in the particular site. The reason why they gathered all the information because they wanted to update the way patients acquire their information. With the help of social networking many patients from all over the world not only those who have the ALS disease, but those who also have an incurable disease can already share their ideas and experiences towards another patients allowing themselves to help each other and see the worth of life.

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Sheryl

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