I was called while Christmas shopping in December 2015 and told that I had cancer. In some ways I knew it long before I heard the words. I went into automatic denial. It took me 3 months to accept it and then to find a surgeon I could trust. We …
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Julie’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Breast Cancer)
Hi! My name is Julie, and I’m currently 54-years-old. I was married for 33 years, and I was divorced in Oct. 2015. I found out a few months later he had been cheating. A few months after that in April 2016, I was diagnosed with stage 3 IDC. I did …
Read More »Cora’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Breast Cancer)
“And when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” Stage II A multifocal, multi-centric left breast CA ER/PR+/HER2-Procedure: 2 Lumpectomies, 4 rounds of chemotherapy, bilateral mastectomy and tissue expander to silicone implant reconstruction. My sister had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009, so I was …
Read More »Megan’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Thyroid Cancer)
As an 18-year-old, I began my freshman year of college thinking my biggest challenge would be my biology class or getting along with my roommate. I never would’ve thought that my biggest obstacle would be a papillary carcinoma diagnosis. Living the typical “college lifestyle” left me with colds left and …
Read More »Kefilwe’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Endometriosis)
Hi, my name is Kefilwe. I am 39-years-old from South Africa. I was diagnosed with endometriosis in 2010 at age 32, 15+ years after going from one doctor to another with absolutely zero help. My journey started when I was around 16/17 years of age with heavy periods that I’d …
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