I have all the above. I have been fighting cervical and breast cancer. I also fight chiari, fibromyalgia, degenerative disk disease, seronegative spondyloarthropathy(RA type), adenomyosis and endometriosis, MS, and of course anxiety. I also may have chronic horrible constipation, which the doctor is considering removing my colon. I am only …

I’m Rosemarie, and I am a five year survivor of cancer of the left breast. I was going to retire as a call center agent from a Kaiser Permanente hospital near me, when my doctor called me on vacation, and told me not to retire. He said they found something …

At the age of 22, I was slapped in the face with the wild and a rough past I lived. I was laying in the ER at the hospital, in my little town, when the doctor came in and told me I had hepatitis C. I thought there has to be a mix up in …

After 2 long years of having so many things go wrong with my health, I finally thought I was starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I started school, and was persuing my dream. Then one day I was shopping at Wal-Mart with my family. The …

Since the day of my first cycle at the age of 13 I have dealt with excruciating pain, I am now 30 years of age. I missed countless days of school due to pain that would last 4-5 days at a time. For years doctors told me this was normal, …

I am 38 year’s old, and proud to say that I am a breast cancer survivor. In July 2011, I was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer.  I thought my world ended when those words came out of my doctor’s mouth. I thought about my only son, my 4 daughter’s, and my grandchildren. …

I am a 4 year lung cancer warrior, and 7 year vulvar cancer (very rare) warrior. I am 51. I am married. I also have 2 daughter’s, and 5 grand babies! Looking back I can hardly believe those month’s of test and worry if it was going to come back, …

I am 25 years old, I have a job that I hate to love, and a man who loves me. I found out I have endometriosis at the beginning of 2012. After about 2 or more year’s of unexplained “you have IBS” symptoms, they told me that I have endo. …

Hi all! My name is Jamie. My life was as close to perfect as I could get, after the childhood I had. Growing up as an orphan, nothing ever came easy for me. But, with a beautiful husband, and three beautiful daughter’s for me to love and dote over, how …

Editor’s Note: Sharon has asked us not to edit her story to help the reader understand some of the effects of the illness that she lives with everyday. mine name is sharon and i have been diagnosed with lewy body dementia, the only form of dementia that is terminal and …