Times tells Terri’s tumor twitter tale.

“Twittering an operation might seem frivolous, but when Ms. Nelson’s teeth began chattering after the procedure, a friend following the updates suggested it could be a potentially hazardous side effect, tardive dyskinesia, that can occur with one of the antinausea drugs Ms. Nelson was taking. (Her husband) who had been researching that very point when the message from the friend, Ken Yee, came in, was able to get the medication changed.

Periscope’s Terri Nelson had a fibroid tumor removed recently, and all sorts of web2.0 tech came into play. Read all about it in the New York Times.