“I think that the internet helped save my life. The women who I met through the internet: through comments on my blog posts, through Twitter, through friends of friends online, they connected me to valuable referrals and life-saving information that was a part of my treatment decisions. Some of them became deeply trusted mentors and allies who I could call in the middle of the night before a big surgery.” When Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin discovered she had breast cancer, she took her readers and Twitter followers along on her often harrowing journey