My name is Tracy, and my story is a long one. I was a late bloomer, as they say. I did not start my period till mid-high school (2002). I was vomiting and in so much pain in the middle of  my classes. I dealt with this pain for years, …

I’m 21 years old, and I have been fighting a really bad spine problem since I was 12. When I turned 12, I took one step out my front door and my lower back fell apart. My L5 S1 shifted and it shattered. The hospitals left me like that for …

Hi all! I was told I had stage 3 grade 3 cervical cancer back in January of 2012. They first found it in November of 2011. It took me 6 weeks to get to see a gynecologist that my doctor had sent me to, as I had no insurance. He wanted me in surgery in 5 …

Hello, my name is Elizabeth. Everyone who knows me calls me Liz. I am a 25 year old mom of 2 wonderful children and have the most supportive husband in the entire world. We have been together for 9 years. When I was 18 I started having a lot of …

I have a slightly different story. I got connected to ‘Fight Like a Girl Club’ because I lost my daddy to cancer. It was last February and I was 39. As someone left behind because of cancer, I felt that I could benefit by reading stories and sharing with this …

I’m 33 years old, almost 3 weeks into my recovery after abdominal hysterectomy. I began going to the doctor in 1998 for pain, irregular bleeding, and unexplained weight gain. I was told for years that the irregular cycles were normal, the pain was imaginary, and the weight gain must have …

One winter while I was in the midst of applying to medical school, I began having muscle and joint pain in my arms, legs, and hands. The pain was accompanied by a fever of unknown origin. The symptoms came as a sudden onset, not gradual. I made several trips to …

I have never talked openly about my condition, until now. Once upon a time there was this girl (me when I was 20 yrs old) who was just starting life. Life seemed like so much joy. Until one day, I couldn’t get out of bed. I tried and tried but …

My story begins with my baby girl Ashley. She was born on September 7, 2010. I had noticed something was wrong with the shape of her head. So at her 1 month check-up the doctor referred us to a genetics doctor. Her doctor had also noticed something was not right with the …

When I was a child, I had been afflicted with many medical issues such as ear infections with four sets of tubes, a stigmatism in my left eye, asthma and scoliosis. At the age of 5, I had been suffering from what they thought was fsgs. But little did I …