I was diagnosed with breast cancer one year ago today. It was such a shock. I kept thinking that this couldn’t happen to me. Breast cancer doesn’t run in my family, so I guess that’s why the BRCA genes came back negative, thank God. It was at stage IIIB when …
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Linda’s Story (Crohn’s Disease)
My name is Linda. I have fought Crohn’s disease for 30 years. I have had several surgeries. This disease affects my whole GI tract. I have also lost a kidney and my gall bladder. When it comes out of remission I am in so much pain, and I spend much …
Read More »Jessica’s Story (Endometriosis)
I was diagnosed with stage 2 endometriosis when I was 15 years old. I have gone through so much in my battle against endo. Now I’m 18, and since my diagnosis I’ve had three surgeries in three years. I have taken multiple birth control pills, and the Lupron shot. The …
Read More »Mary’s Story (Breast Cancer)
Well my story begins like so many others. I was in the shower and found a marble size lump in my left breast. At first I thought, “there is no way, this can’t happen to me.” I made an appointment to have a mammogram (but of course I did not …
Read More »Amy’s Fight Like a Girl Story
There is a phenomenon that I am just now becoming familiar with. I have never had to deal with it in my life until now, and to say the least, it’s upsetting. Losing friends when you get sick. About a year and a half ago I had to go back …
Read More »Debrah’s Story (Breast Cancer)
In 2005 , I found a lump which I thought felt like a “fatty tissue thingy, like something from my dogs.” It was found on my sternum, not where I imagined to find a lump. I always looked for those “hard pea shaped things” in my breast. What the doctors …
Read More »Jackie’s Story (Multiple Myeloma)
I’m fighting depression, HIV, hepatitis C and multiple myeloma. These have been causing me so much pain lately. On top of that, I’m a single working mom, of a 19 year old daughter who has just finished her first year of college, and a 15 year old son who will …
Read More »Lisa’s Story (Endometriosis)
I was sickly as a child, but could get away with missing months of school at a time since my dad was my principal through eight grade. It seemed like every time I was around other kids who even sneezed, I would be stuck at home with a high fever, …
Read More »Jenna’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Possible Lupus)
My journey started when I was six years old. When I was six I had noticed some white patches on my skin. I then went to a dermatologist, who had found it was vitiligo, an autoimmune disease. I had been through several skin creams, and by the time I was …
Read More »Shelia’s Story (Breast Cancer)
I went to the doctor because I was bleeding from my nipple. I went to doctor after doctor, they all told me it was normal in some women. When it came time for the mammogram I told the women preforming the test that my breast hurt. When she was doing …
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