In April of 2010, two days before a big dance competition, I was in gym class playing street hockey. A girl in my class hit me repeatedly in the foot with her hockey stick causing a small stress fracture. But, I still danced at the dance competition that weekend, which …

Here I am at 38; a widow, a mother of 2 teenagers, and I just got hit with the news that I have breast cancer…and it’s stage 4!!! All I could think was ‘What are my kids going to do without me? They lost their father, they can’t lose me …

My mother, who is also by best friend, battled and won with God and our families help, stage III breast cancer, 15 years ago. She had a lumpectomy, 33 treatments of radiation, and 5 months of chemo. Life had got back to “normal”  but the thought of cancer always was …

My name is Valerie Serrano and I am 26 years old (for only 11 more days). I am currently battling Thyroid cancer, fibromyalgia, Hoshitmotos Thyroid Disease, along with some other health problems. My mom passed away 4 1/2 years ago from small blue cell carcinoma, and my dad had melanoma. …

My story so far… I had an emergency appendectomy in November of 2011, only to be told in February it contained a rare cancer called Neuroendocrine Carcinoma. After googling and joining various cancer groups and Facebook pages, I was still none the wiser. My doctors and my surgeon said that as a precaution, it …

In the fall of 2011, I started having frequent pain in my lower abdomen. The only way I could explain the positioning was to put my hands all the way into my pockets and and to say the pain was where my finger tips were. Finally the pain was so …

I have a disease called SLE Lupus. Lupus is an autoimmune disease that can affect the skin, your joints, your kidneys, and your other organs. I was diagnosed in March of 2011 when I was only 19 years old. I was away at school my 1st year at college and …

I had been having female problems for the last 4 plus years. I thought I was pregnant at the age of 40 for the first time because I had not had a period for two months. I took a pregnancy test, and two day later started my period. It lasted …

Hi, my name is Freda. I’m 43 years old and a mother of 3; an 8 year old boy, girl twins, and an 11 year old boy. I’m a diabetic. I’m learning new things, like how to eat and take care of myself. It isn’t easy. I have seen this …

I am 30 years old. I am a mom, wife, daughter, friend, and much more. When I was 27, I felt a large lump in my right breast and a smaller lump in my left breast. I was concerned and limited with the insurance I had at the time, but …