This is the story of my on-going battle with breast cancer that started in 2004. I was 38 and diagnosed with Stage IIB invasive ductal carcinoma. I had found a lump on my right breast and because I did not have any insurance nor was I really worried about it …

I had waited my entire life for the moment to finally come. I was finally starting my quest through nursing school and couldn’t have been more excited. My happiness soon ended when on January 17, 2012, the second day of nursing school, my endocrinologist called me and told me I had thyroid …

I tell ya, it seems like I can’t catch a break! I’m 25, and I was just diagnosed with fibromyalgia. I saw it coming. My sister and my mother were diagnosed with it several years ago, and I had all the same symptoms. I can’t remember not feeling the pain. …

“Well, I finally have an answer.” That’s the first thing that came to my mind when I woke up from surgery and overheard the doctors talking about injecting me with Lupron. Tears were streaming down my face. I knew it was endometriosis, I had a gut feeling for months. I …

Hi, my name is Amber Barnes. My husband, Benjamin Barnes (Moore Police Officer), and I have a 5 year old daughter named Kaylie. My daughter was diagnosed with Chiari 1 Malformation. Short story of it all: her brain has run out of room, so it is now protruding down into …

I am a 39 year old married mom of three beautiful girls. About two years ago I started having tummy troubles. I had pain in my stomach and was constantly sick. My doctor attributed it to stress, as I had just become the PTA president. It continued for a few …

I’m healthy as a horse. My boyfriend on the other hand, suffers daily with Crohn’s disease. The 10 months that I’ve been with him have held some of the most heartbreaking, uplifting, painful, and joyous moments of my whole life. On January 1st 2012, he was rushed into hospital with …

At the age of 15, I started having a lot of pain when I would have my periods. No doctor would or could tell me what was going on until I was 20 and I had given birth to my daughter. That’s when all my surgeons began to try and …

Rheumatoid arthritis. I’ve known what that was since I was ten years old when my mom was diagnosed. Her disease has always been progressive and aggressive.My mom has never been a person who enjoys working out etc, and her disease soon made that impossible. As a young girl, you never …

On December 17th 1992 when I was 17 yrs old, I was diagnosed with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia. Over the course of the next 2 yrs (which I spent as a permanent resident of Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto). I underwent multiple induction and consolidation courses of chemo, was part of …