I am 43 years old. I have a wonderful husband of 14 years and a 15 year old daughter. I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer this past April and will be receiving my 3rd round of aggressive chemo treatment this Wednesday. I have 4-6 more treatments before I get a double …

My name is Patricia Armendariz-Tallon, but you can all call me Patty. I was diagnosed with breast cancer on March 30, 2010; I was 33 years old. This was the day turned my world upside down. I had just recently moved to Memphis from Ohio with my family due to …

I remember being a little girl and having the feeling that something just wasn’t right. I would ball up and cry to myself through the years. I’d make the comment about how I thought I had cancer or something like that. Guess it probably did sound a bit dramatic coming …

I have always had what were thought of as minor health issues. I have always had aches and pains and they were always thought to be ‘growing pains’ or something along those lines. At about 13, I started to notice a change in my toes. They started to feel numb …

I was once a very active secondary school and sixth grade teacher here in the UK, but that was all before I was hit by Adult Onset Still’s Disease (AOSD) – a very rare autoimmune disease affecting only 1 in a million adults! Now, I’m living a very different life. I’m a …

Three years ago, I started having seizures. We did hundreds of tests, all coming back negative for anything that could ‘possibly’ cause them. We tried, but couldn’t get any neurologist to keep looking. They diagnosed it as a mental problem and shoved me away to a therapist. But I kept fighting …

In October 2008, I found a lump. I was assured that it was probably nothing. I was young, 38, and I had no family history of breast cancer. I had a mammogram, then a ultrasound, and a biopsy. On Friday, at 5:00 pm, on December 5,  2008 my doctor calls …

My story begins like many others. In July of 2008, I dislocated and broke my ankle. Needless to say, I was put on medical leave as I was working in a plastic molding company which included twelve hour shifts of walking around on a cement floor. After my so-called recovery …

Well it all started in November 2007, when the doctor gave me news that I have diabetes. She assumed that because of my strong family history and my weight that I was a type 2 diabetic, and she gave me medication. Not even a year later I developed infections, a …

My name is Yvonne. I am a 39-year-old mother of three beautiful children ages 21, 17, and 14. I can’t tell you how excited and sad I felt after finding this website. At first I thought I would just read some of the stories about mixed connective tissue disease just …