Keeping family and friends informed

I found it too overwhelming at first and asked my husband to tell his family.  I told two very close friends from different friendship groups and asked them to pass on the news, be my conduits and ask people not to contact me.  Once treatment was more certain, my husband set up a blog page while I was in hospital and I wrote on this quite often having given the address to family, friends and colleagues.  I found that worked the best for me.  Even though friends would still ask how I was going when I saw them, they kept up with the nitty gritty of news from the blog and I wasn't repeating things umpteen times.  This meant that they also didn't feel that they needed to contact me all of the time to find out the latest and they could post comments on the blog.  I still put the odd thing up 16 months or so after active treatment ended but I have found now that the blog has become a very personal diary of an extremely difficult year, some of which I can barely remember.