Free health update page
Share health updates with family and friends, all in one place
Rallee is a free, private page for sharing health updates. Write an update once and everyone you invite sees it and can leave messages of encouragement. When people ask how to help, add meals, rides, donations or anything else to the same page.
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By Kevin Holst · Updated 23 Sept 2026
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How to share health updates on Rallee
Retelling the same news can be incredibly tiresome during an already exhausting time. Start a free Rallee in under 1 minute, share one link, post updates, and your friends and family can follow along.
1Step 1
Start a page for the person you are supporting.
Works for any diagnosis, treatment or recovery
2Step 2
Updates and messages are on from the start.
Nothing to enable, nothing behind a setting
3Step 3
Write the update once.
Write as often or as rarely as you want
4Step 4
Let people write back.
Messages of encouragement in one thread
5Step 5
Share one link, and keep the page private.
Easily share the page on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or over email or text
6Step 6
When people ask what they can do, point at the page.
Add meals, gift cards, donations, errands, childcare and more. All support types are optional and free to add.
Too tired to type? Say your update instead.
Rallee has speech to text for updates. Press and hold the microphone, talk through on your phone or computer, and your words show up as text you can fix before you post. It helps in a waiting room, or on a day when typing it all out is too much.
Updates, plus help
Start with health updates. Add help whenever you need it.
Updates and messages are on from the start. When people ask what they can do, turn on meals, rides, donations or anything else on the same page. Rallee has 16 support types, plus custom support for whatever you need. All support types are optional, you can choose as many as you'd like:
Share updates
Deliver a meal
Provide transportation
Run an errand
Help with kids
Help with pets
Give coffee/tea
Give flowers
Visit
Give a gift
Check in
Donate
Custom support
- Updates
Write it once. Everyone following gets it.
- Messages
Encouragement in one place.
The pageOne link with the story and ways to help.
- Invite
Share by text, email or group chat.
- Ways to help
Meals, rides and more, when you want them.
DonationsOptional, and the money goes to them.
Planning meals around treatment? See our guide to a meal train for cancer patients.
Templates
Health update templates you can copy
Not sure what to say? Pick your situation, copy it, and change anything that doesn't sound like you. Fill in or delete anything in [brackets].
How to share a diagnosis in a first update
The hardest one to write. Feel free to keep this one short. You can always add details later.
Hi everyone, We wanted to share some news in one place, so you hear it from us and we don't have to repeat it. On [day], [Name] was diagnosed with [condition]. The next step is [appointment, scan or meeting with the care team] on [date]. We'll know more after that, and we'll post here when we do. We're okay today. Some days will be harder than others. We'll keep updates here instead of texting everyone one by one. If it's quiet for a while, it just means there's nothing new. No need to reply to any of this. Thank you for being in our corner. [Your name]
What to write before surgery or a procedure
Tell people when it is and when to expect news.
Quick update: [Name]'s surgery is on [day] at [time]. It should take about [length of time]. [Person] will be at the hospital, and we'll post a short note here when it's over. Texts are welcome, but please don't worry if we don't answer that day. If you'd like to help with the week after, the meal calendar is on this page.
What to write after surgery
Two or three sentences is enough. The details can wait until you've slept.
[Name] is out of surgery. The team says it went [as planned / well], and [Name] is resting now. We'll know more over the next [few days], and we'll share when we do. Thank you for all the messages. We read every one, even when we can't answer yet.
How to write a treatment update
The update you'll write most often. A little about how it went, a little about what's next.
Hi all, [Name] finished round [number] of [number] this week. The first few days after treatment are the hardest, so it's been a quiet, tired week. [One good thing: a walk, a visit, a meal that tasted right.] Next treatment is [date]. There are a few open days on the meal calendar that week if you're able to help. Thank you for sticking with us.
How to share hard news in a health update
Say what you're ready to say when you are ready. It's fine to ask people to hold their questions.
This is a hard update to write. [Name]'s latest [scan / test / appointment] showed [short, plain description]. The care team is talking with us about next steps. We're not ready to go through the details yet, so please understand if we don't answer questions right now. Your messages here mean a lot, and there's no need to call. We'll share more when we can.
A "no news" update for quiet weeks
Worth posting. It saves you a pile of "any news?" texts.
No big news this week, which is good news. [Name] is resting and taking things a day at a time. The next appointment is [date], and we'll post after that. Thank you for checking in.
How to ask for help in a health update
People keep asking what they can do. Tell them one or two specific things.
A few of you have asked what you can do, so we've put it all in one place. The biggest help right now would be [meals on treatment weeks / rides to appointments on Tuesdays / someone to walk the dog]. You can sign up for anything on this page. No pressure at all. Every bit helps, and so do your messages.
What to write when treatment ends
Relief, and often a lot of tiredness. It's fine to say both.
[Name] finished their last treatment on [date]. We're relieved, and very tired. Recovery will take a while, and there will be follow-up [scans / appointments] every [how often]. Thank you for the meals, the rides, the messages and the patience. We'll keep posting here now and then.
Privacy
Keep health updates private
Rallee respects your privacy and lets you decide how you want to share your page.
Not in search results
Rallee pages aren't indexed by search engines, so a name search won't find them.
You choose who joins
Anyone with the link, or only people you or the recipient approve.
Contact info is optional
Address and phone only show to members, or leave them off.
Coming from CaringBridge
Switching from CaringBridge? Here's what's different on Rallee.
Updates will feel familiar: write a post, everyone following sees it, and friends leave messages of encouragement. Here's what changes.
Help is built in
Meals, rides, errands and gift cards sit on the same page as your updates. No second site to send people to.
Say it instead of typing
Speech to text turns what you say into an update you can edit before you post.
Easy to use
Rallee is incredibly easy to use and trusted by over 10,000 families. Start sharing updates in under 1 minute.
Where the money goes
Both sites can show a way to give on a health update page. On CaringBridge, tribute donations go to CaringBridge. On Rallee, donations go directly to the recipient.
On CaringBridge
Tribute donations support CaringBridge, not the family
Supporters can give a tribute in honor of the person a page is for, and the message shows on their page.2 CaringBridge's help center says "Your tribute donation will go to support our mission at CaringBridge."3
They're a real charity and open about it. But one reviewer, writing about her husband's cancer, estimated "Caring Bridge made about $650! That could have been used for medical costs!"4
On Rallee
Donations go directly to the person you support
- Rallee's platform fee is 0%
- The only cost is Stripe's card fee, 2.9% plus $0.30
- No donate-to-Rallee button, and no ads
- Optional. Turn donations on only if you want them
See the full Rallee and CaringBridge comparison.
For someone else
Sharing updates for someone you love
It doesn't have to be the person who is sick. Often it shouldn't be.
You can start a Rallee for yourself or someone else.
You can add as many organizers and recipients you want who can also share updates about the situation.
On Rallee, the organizer and the recipient can both post, and any member can share messages and reply.
“It was so great to have a central place where I could update all my friends and family. It would have been exhausting doing this via text and calls.”
FAQ
Sharing health updates: common questions
Yes. Rallee is free, with no ads and no premium tier, and you can use it only for updates if that's all you need. You can also add ways to support like meals, rides, donations, errands, and more. CaringBridge is also free and ad-free but they ask for donations from your supporters to fund CaringBridge.3
Only people with the link, or only people you or the recipient approve, depending on the setting you choose. Rallee pages are not indexed by search engines, so the page won't come up if someone searches the patient's name.
Yes, and it's common. The American Cancer Society suggests asking a partner or close family member to keep other family members informed, or a close friend to share the news with other friends. On Rallee, the organizer and the recipient can both post updates, and any member can be made an organizer.1
What happened, in one or two plain sentences. What happens next and when you expect to know more. How often you plan to post, so people don't worry when it's quiet. And, if you want it, one line on how people can help. It doesn't need to be long or polished.
Yes. Rallee has speech to text for updates: press and hold the microphone while writing an update, say what you want to share, and it turns into text you can edit before posting. It works on a phone or a computer.
As often as you can keep up, and no more. Around a surgery or hospital stay, a short note before and after helps. During a long treatment, once a week or after each appointment is common. A "no news this week" update is fine and saves a lot of texts.
Say it once in an update, and keep a line ready for everyone else. The American Cancer Society suggests something like: "Thank you for asking, but I'd rather not talk about it right now."1
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Tell it once.
Start a free page in under 1 minute, share one link, and let everyone follow along.
Create your free pageBy Kevin Holst, co-founder of Rallee. This page covers the practical side of keeping friends and family updated. It is not medical advice. Every quote was checked against its source on 22 September 2026.
Sources (4)
American Cancer Society. Telling Others You Have Cancer Last revised 8 Dec 2025.
cancer.orgRetrieved 22 Sep 2026
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