Yep, yep… Here it is. I was always an attention-getter but not like this ;).  I was 38 years old when I was diagnosed.  I had no family history and was very healthy. I was a professional dancer… No, not THAT kind…sorry…keeping it light.  We were rehearsing a dance number, …

I am a super busy mommy of three cute kids. I never thought that I would be battling cancer at the age of 33. I just happened to be home on October 1, 2012, the first day of breast cancer awareness month.  The TV was plastered with commercials; every talk …

My name is Marcia Wearing. I was diagnosed in 1984 with stage four bone cancer (osteosarcoma). I was given a 50/50 survival rate. I was 18 years old at the time, and had dreams of becoming a dancer. I put my career on hold and began a regiment of chemotherapy. …

In fall of 2011 I was diagnosed with stage 2 b breast cancer, the day after I was engaged. I went through six rounds of chemo and 20 rounds of radiation. I am now at the end of my herceptin and I’m getting my port removed right after.  I do …

When I was 23 years old I was a mother to two small children who were 2 and 3 years old. I had discovered a lump on my throat, so I went to my Dr. the very next day and was sent the next week for an ultrasound and biopsy …

I was 39 when my husband noticed a difference in the size of one breast (right). Our family has a very large amount of cancer on my paternal side, and to add to it I had just lost an Aunt to reoccurring breast cancer at the age of 56. I …

My name is Christine Medina. For many years I went from doctor to doctor because I believed something was wrong with me, my body and the way it was working. Some doctors were in disbelief, and I truly think that others just thought I was over reacting. Blood work and …

I wasn’t even 21 when my dad passed away in 2008. Less than a month later I was battling crippling pain in my hip. I had surgery on it in 2009, without a definitive diagnosis to what was actually causing my pain. To this day I still only know it …

I was told about four years ago that I had fibromyalgia. Not long after a motorcycle accident my body began to hurt. I thought it was from the accident so it took me several months to report to my PCP how I was feeling. I started having memory loss, forgetting …

When I tell people my story, they often look at me like I am crazy. I have been told my story sounds like a bad for television movie. One week changed my life forever. Something was off, with the way I felt and with my marriage. I discovered I had …