April, 2012. I became extremely sick. I thought it was a bad flu. I couldn’t keep anything down, not even small sips of water. I was taken to the ER. My blood glucose level was 440+. I had a stroke because I wasn’t able to keep anything down including my …

My FLAG story begins innocently enough, as I had no clue that anything was wrong. I knew I was losing some weight but attributed that to the fact that I was finally off the hormones that I’d been taking for over 10 years. Also, I didn’t have any other of …

Hi My name is Kelly Bragg, and I’m 43 years old, but most days I feel 90. I’m a single mom to one son, Mikey, age 12. My illness started 12 years ago. I was tired all the time had pain throughout my body. It hurt to touch my hands …

I am actually telling my daughter’s story. Even though I myself don’t have Chiari, I fight right along with her. She started getting really bad headaches about 6 years ago, not wanting to go to school, etc. I thought it was just because she didn’t want to get up. Then …

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been tired and achy. As a child I was told that eating better would give me more energy (I was a picky eater) or that the aches were simply growing pains. I would outgrow it, so they said. Flash forward to 2008. …

I was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 34 in 2007. I was declared cancer free in 2010. In 2016, I was diagnosed with stage IV metastatic breast cancer. The cancer has traveled to my bones. I’ll do treatment for the rest of my life… but I’ll fight for the …

I was diagnosed a year ago on Nov. 8,2016. The day my life officially changed. I went through a single mastectomy and chemo with my 19-year-old playing nurse. I had radiation and am now on tamoxifen for ten years. I am a single mom with two young ones still with …

My name is Kayla, and I am 25-years-old. Around age 14, I was hospitalized for about a week with Meningitis. Ever since then, the fight with my body has been on. I constantly had all-over body pain and discomfort. I would have horrible headaches and be so tired that I …

It started last October, just after I got my flu shot in my left arm. I was feeling pain in the area where I’d received my flu shot and thought it was just a reaction to the shot. I went to the doctor and was seen by a resident (not …

I was diagnosed in June 2012. In July 2012, I decided to have a bilateral mascetomy. I had stage one cancer. When the test results came back after surgery, they showed the cancer was forming in the left breast. If I had just removed the right side, I would have …