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A New Year, A New Hope for a Cure.

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Dec
27
2011
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I want to talk about the battle that you go through and the hard decisions you have to make when you are living with Endometriosis. As we face a new year my resolutions are simple. Take care of myself, fight with all I have against this disease and pray for a cure. My Christmas was filled with wonderful family and a caring boyfriend who made it very special. I am in recovery from my third surgery that I had on December 12, so it was a little altered and I was limited on what I could do. I haven’t posted about the surgery and the things I’ve been through leading up to it because I was having a very hard time with the thoughts of going through it again. About two months ago I went back to my doctor to figure out the next step in what we should do. I had a very bad reaction to the last treatment we had tried, birth control/hormone therapy. So it was at the point of having to have surgery again because the treatments hadn’t helped and it was still growing very … [Read more...]

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When You Feel Like Your World Has Fallen Apart

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Oct
16
2011
Fighter

Hi everyone! I’m Rachel and I fight Endometriosis.  As a new Power Writer for FLAGC I thought I would just do an introduction and tell you my story so you can get to know me a little :) At age 12 I started having horrible stomach pain to the point I could be walking and suddenly drop to my knees. My mom took me to my pediatrician and she couldn’t find anything so I went on ignoring it until after a few months it went away. When I was 16, I started having the pains once again.  At this point I was finishing up my senior year of high school. My mom had just been through a thyroid storm that had lasted over a year, nearly killing her and she was still recovering. For several months I ignored it and played it down to my family.  At first it was something I felt I could handle. I figured I would just ignore it and it would go away. It didn’t and swiftly got worse. It got to the point that it would hit me so hard I would be down on my knees. My mom took me back to my … [Read more...]

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“Hope” by John

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Sep
03
2011
John Hope

I had a strained relationship with hope before my wife was diagnosed with cancer. To me, hope was a high waiting for a low, a fix with a nasty flipside. Far from the precious entity exalted by legions of poets and philosophers, hope was just another coordinate on the pain/pleasure cycle existing in infinite balance with its opposite. In the same way that happiness alternates with sadness, or desire with loss, hope alternates with fear. One requires that the other exist. Hope was for suckers, and I was no sucker. Or so I reasoned. The times I didn’t need hope, that is. But when life would clobber me over the head with misfortune, there I was, clinging to hope like a dear, misunderstood friend. Since my wife’s diagnosis, however, my relationship with hope is no longer strained. It’s been severed completely. I’ve abandoned hope, and in the process have met a new friend: peace. To abandon hope is to trample the plotline of feel-good movies, to renounce the rhetoric of … [Read more...]

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Magda Claims Her Power! (A Breast Cancer Battle)

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Dec
01
2010
"I Fight Like A Girl" Against Breast Cancer!

This is the true story of my aunt Magda Batista's battle against breast cancer. As a lupus patient I know how hard battling an illness can be. Magda inspires me to fight my battle with illness everyday with my head held high. Here's hoping her words inspire a fight within you... "Ms. Batista; you have breast cancer." After the shock, my first thoughts were, "Why me? I don't smoke or drink!" I had always figured that if I did the right thing, lived the right way that I would escape such horrors. I started to fear death, horrified that I would leave my son without a mother. However, all was not lost. My family, friends, and faith kept me going when I thought I didn't have the strength. I began to see life in a different shade of light, even though the doctors didn't tell me what I wanted to hear I began to change for the better. I started to feel good about myself, and learned one should never take life for granted. I discovered that people living with illness don't … [Read more...]

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