My name is Rivcah MacLean. I am a ovarian/cervical cancer survivor. It all started when I was 13. I dropped to the ground in the school bathroom in a crazy amount of pain. I was screaming and another student heard me and got my teacher. She explained that I probably …

I am a retired chiropractor and have enjoyed having pretty decent health most of my adult life. I have even devoted the better part of the past decade to being a caregiver for a young woman with chronic lung disease. I’ve watched as she has experienced many ups and downs …

Hey there! My name is Victoria; I fight like a girl against multiple illnesses every day. My friends would describe me as a sweet, strong, caring, loving, bubbly girl. From the outside you’d never guess the battles I have won or the ones I am fighting today. I have lupus, …

Thanksgiving evening 2006 as I was taking a shower, and doing the regular check, I felt a lump on my left breast. I said to myself, “I did not feel that yesterday!” The next day I called and scheduled an appointment with my Primary Care Physician. Little did I know the next …

Hi, my name is Angie. I am 45 years old and I suffer from many chronic illnesses. It started happening when I was 28. I have spinal stenosis, fibromyalgia, IBS, and anxiety. I have had two neck surgeries with hardware added (titanium rods), and two lower back surgeries with hardware …

I stumbled across the Fight Like a Girl website when I was diagnosed with endometriosis and was trying to find someone, anyone, that could understand and appreciate what I was going through. The stories I have read over the past year and a half have been so encouraging and have …

2013 was supposed to be the best year of my life. I was getting married to my best friend and my soul mate on September 14th in Spain and I was so excited to be a wife!! But everything changed when on January 2, I was diagnosed with stage 2 …

At age 37 I was diagnosed with invasive lobular carcinoma in the right breast. Imaging (mammogram and ultrasound) showed what appeared to be a 1.5 cm mass. I chose to have a bilateral mastectomy followed with immediate reconstruction due to a strong family history of breast cancer in my family. …

I am a stay home mom of three beautiful kids. I have an amazing husband who I am utterly in love with after 11 years together. My family is my world and I completely adore them. On May 10th 2013, my perfect world was turned upside-down when out of nowhere, …

In 2004, at 16 years old I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease after two misdiagnoses of lupus and lyme’s disease. Only weeks after my diagnosis I was in and out of the hospital having surgeries and receiving most of my nutrients via TPN through a PICC line. I went from …