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May 04, 2016

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"Caregivers face many stresses when dealing with a loved one's injury or illness, including the need to provide consistent updates to an extended net- work of family and friends who want to know how the patient is doing," says Sona Mehring, founder of Caring- Bridge.org, a nonprofit organization that helps caregivers create Web sites for health updates. "Putting informa- tion online can be a big stress reliever for caregivers because it allows them to communicate important, and some- times difficult, information quickly and effectively to a large number of people, without having to repeat the same news over and over again." Having a Web site "allowed us to tell the story we could never have told to people personally," says Michael Dunn, whose identical twin daughters were diagnosed with neuroblastoma when they were just two months old. "It would have been a much more dif- ficult and lonely time without it." 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