I am a 38 year old wife, mother of a nine year old girl and five year old boy. I was diagnosed with Melanoma in April of 2011. I did not have a mole or a freckle. I had cut the back of my left leg shaving above my ankle …
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Victoria’s Story (Breast Cancer)
On my 34th Birthday this year, I found a lump on the upper outer area of my breast that felt like a marble. I knew, “uh oh” that’s not supposed to be there. The next day I saw two doctors, one said it was cancer and that I need a …
Read More »Lisa Anne’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Panhypopituitarism, Autism, FM/ME/CFS)
My fight like a girl story begins directly from the womb, but I wouldn’t have to fight seriously until I was 10. I was born with a rare pituitary condition called septo optic dysplasia which caused my pituitary to not be able to keep up with my growing body. I …
Read More »Teresa’s Story (Endometriosis)
My story starts out very different from most endometriosis stories; but ends the same way…with pain! I didn’t get my period until I was seventeen; and when I did it was only twice a year. The abdominal pain started the same year I was married, 1990. My husband and I fought …
Read More »Kristin’s Story (Breast Cancer)
I am 32 years old and was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer in August 2011. I found my own cancer through a routine monthly self exam. At my age, no one expected it to be cancer. I do have some family history with emphasis being on my Aunt Lisa …
Read More »After Happily Ever After
Do you ever wonder what happens after happily ever after? Maybe because I’m a writer I think beyond the end of the perfect story. Like what happened to Cinderella after she married Prince Charming? Where did the evil stepmother and step sisters go? Did they all make up? The questions …
Read More »Margery’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Melanoma)
In October 1999, my first husband passed away (heart related). He left behind 3 young children and his wife (me…in my 40’s). In June of 2000, I went to the dermatologist, something I had needed to do because I had a mole on my neck that was dark, irregular in …
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