Ovarian cancer month is actually in September. However as most know I am a survivor!!! What most DON’T know is  my story!!! I had a pap-smear in August of 2010. In May 2011, I discovered I was pregnant. On June 21st I miscarried! On July 5th I went to the …

First off I’m so thankful that other women have shared their stories, I don’t feel like such an outsider. I’m 31 years of age and I have always had severe cramping and an overall  horrible experience whenever I got my cycle. It would get so bad that I would get …

After almost seven years of trying to hide my illness, it is time to metaphorically come out of the closet. One day when I was in fourth grade I all of a sudden hunched over in my seat from a sudden and intense onslaught of pain. As you guessed it, …

  My story started out by going to the doctor in March of 2011 with severe abdominal pain, after being told it was “just” multiple cyst that burst. I was basically told to take it easy. We decided six months later to have my first laparoscopic surgery. After almost a year …

I have had excruciating pain for the past six years. I never knew what it was, it started in my right hand and went into my shoulder. I finally went to see a neurologist in 2011 and they didn’t see what what was wrong so I kept dealing with the …

I was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer on September 9, 2013 at the age of 39 years old. My doctor started me out with chemotherapy first to shrink the tumor. It went from 6.5 x 6 cm to 3.5 x 3 cm. My last Chemo was today, February 21, …

In August of 2013, breast cancer was detected in my right breast. It spread across the whole breast and I was advised to amputate it. As a precaution I had a double mastectomy in October and let them put in tissue expanders for reconstruction (these are temporary to stretch the …

My wrist pain started in 2011. I didn’t know what had hit me. I had always worked like a dog all of my life and didn’t let anything slow me down. I am 43 and have been a nurse since I was 19. Since my wrist pain started I can’t …

Hello everyone I would like to share my story with everyone. I was 33 years old when I was diagnosed with synovial sarcoma. It started in December of 2006, two months after giving birth to a beautiful baby girl. It stared with a lower back pain that led me to …

Hello Fight Like a Girl Club. I’m 30 years old and I was diagnosed in 2010 with stage 3 Ovarian Cancer. I found out I had cancer after miscarrying my baby girl at five months, you can say she is my angel and saved me. After multiple surgeries, chemo, and …