Last year while screen printing, I received the call from the doctor. We received that call two months to the date of my sister in law passing away suddenly from sleep apnea. She was 50. Three surgeries later I had a double mastectomy (I had no insurance due to the …
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Leeandra’s Story (Muscular Dystrophy, Autism)
Okay, here it goes!!! Years ago I doctor hopped because no one could give me an answer as to why I had so much pain. To make a long story short I had so much scar tissue that I could not have children, so my tubes were removed. Later my …
Read More »Elizabeth’s Story (Bone Cancer)
The pain started back in April 2013. It was just a mild pain on my right side, I thought it could be a kidney infection so I went to the doctor. She told me it was just a pulled muscle and gave me some muscle relaxers. A few months later …
Read More »Sharlynn’s Mom’s Story (Uterine Cancer, Breast Cancer)
My mom was a cancer survivor. It started with uterine cancer in the early 80’s which eventually spread to her pancreas. Years later she was diagnosed with cancer in her right breast. A few years later she was diagnosed with cancer again in her left breast. After having both breasts …
Read More »Ellie’s Fight Like a Girl Story (PCOS and Fibroid’s)
Hi all. I’m 36, and for years I had been struggling with really heavy periods since I was young, but was told it was something I just had to live with. Occasionally doctors would put me on the pill to regulate things, but nothing seemed to work, and I was …
Read More »Joseline’s Story (Fibromyalgia, Chronic Pain, Endometriosis)
Hello my name is Joseline, I have been diagnosed with IBS since 2001, then I got diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2008 along with severe ongoing chronic pain and endometriosis. I have had three surgeries total; one myomectomy for six fibroid’s that they found, the second surgery was a laparoscopy for …
Read More »Stephanie’s Story (Breast Cancer)
I have just been diagnosed with my third breast cancer just two years after a double mastectomy. My first cancer was in 2001, I found the lump myself. I had chemo, radiation, and lumpectomy. After my treatments I had mammograms every six months for awhile and then later just once …
Read More »Jamie’s Story (Breast Cancer)
On March 12, 2014 my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. On April 1, 2014 she had the lump in her right breast removed, not a very big lump just a small one, but the labs came back and it was her2 positive so treatments began. Two weeks after her …
Read More »Bethany’s Story (Cervical Cancer)
I always wanted to be like my older sister. She was my everything. My parents got divorced when I was very young so my sister basically raised me since age eight. I was in a very abusive first marriage and wasn’t able to be closer to her or the rest …
Read More »Shannon’s Story (Cervical Cancer)
Hi my name is Shannon Anderson and I am happy to say I Fought Like a Girl and won. I had not been to the OB doctor in eight years because I had no insurance. I started having a pain of what I thought was a cyst. I went to …
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