Hi, my name is Tiffany. I am a 34-year-old from Staten Island, New York. I am a mother of 3 boys, ages 19, 18, and 9. I worked as housekeeping for the JCC. All that ended 3 years ago when I was driving to work. I noticed I couldn’t switch my …
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Tracy’s Story (Chiari Malformation)
Hello, my name is Tracy Fapetu. I was diagnosed with Arnold Chiari Malformation about 2 weeks ago. It all started back home in Nashville, Tennessee in 2012, after going back and forth to the doctor about headaches, dizziness, gaining a lot of weight and not knowing why, back pain, and muscle spasms. …
Read More »Christine’s Story (Hodgkin’s Lymphoma)
To begin, I am the 43-year-old mother of a 7-year-old boy, and the only other major medical condition I have faced before was getting my tonsils removed at age 4. I discovered a lump (enlarged lymph node) in my neck around mid-March 2015. I sort of kept note of it, as …
Read More »Fran’s Story (Breast Cancer)
I am so excited! I became a 5 year Triple Negative Breast Cancer Survivor on November 8th. I was washing dishes on a Saturday morning, and my husband came up behind me to give me a hug. In doing so, he felt the lump. Everything happened so fast after that. …
Read More »Julie’s Story (Breast Cancer)
I had my bilateral mastectomy on Thursday, October 29th. During my surgery, I had reconstruction, a port put in, and a lymph node biopsy, as well as all of my right arm lymph nodes removed. Everything went well during my nine hour surgery, and I went home two days later. …
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