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If you're a nobody but then you get cancer, can you start a blog and share it with everyone so that you can look like a hero? is it normal for people to do this?
It backfires. I don't have cancer but another serious disease that I'm barely surviving. At first it was kind of fun to surprise people with (I was abnormally young to get it). However, at some point you become the girl/guy with that condition and it defines you. I've actually been introduced as "This is my niece, the one with *condition*".
I've never had cancer personally but I've lost my Dad to it, so I feel the effects indirectly. It's something you have to either go through yourself, or know someone very close to you who has/had it, in order to understand how difficult it is to deal with.
I certainly wouldn't look at it as "attention seeking" just because someone wants to open up a public conversation about their illness. Cancer especially is hard, it feels like a death sentence and it often is, and in that position a lot of people feel alone.
For a lot of people who are there, a blog is an outlet that allows them to connect with others who are going through it, to give inspiration to others and to (hopefully) uplift with a positive success story if all goes well.
Cancer, the Big C, the Killer with Stealth. How a person deals with such a horrid little beast is quite personal. I wouldn't be too judgey.
Some people lie about there disease actually and then they starts some sort of blog. Look at Belle Gibson.