Hi, my name is Angie. I am 45 years old and I suffer from many chronic illnesses. It started happening when I was 28. I have spinal stenosis, fibromyalgia, IBS, and anxiety. I have had two neck surgeries with hardware added (titanium rods), and two lower back surgeries with hardware …
Read More »Angie’s Story (Endometriosis)
I stumbled across the Fight Like a Girl website when I was diagnosed with endometriosis and was trying to find someone, anyone, that could understand and appreciate what I was going through. The stories I have read over the past year and a half have been so encouraging and have …
Read More »Jacinta’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Kidney Cancer)
2013 was supposed to be the best year of my life. I was getting married to my best friend and my soul mate on September 14th in Spain and I was so excited to be a wife!! But everything changed when on January 2, I was diagnosed with stage 2 …
Read More »Debbie’s Story (Breast Cancer)
At age 37 I was diagnosed with invasive lobular carcinoma in the right breast. Imaging (mammogram and ultrasound) showed what appeared to be a 1.5 cm mass. I chose to have a bilateral mastectomy followed with immediate reconstruction due to a strong family history of breast cancer in my family. …
Read More »Laura’s Story (Brain Cancer)
I am a stay home mom of three beautiful kids. I have an amazing husband who I am utterly in love with after 11 years together. My family is my world and I completely adore them. On May 10th 2013, my perfect world was turned upside-down when out of nowhere, …
Read More »Caryn’s Story (Crohn’s Disease)
In 2004, at 16 years old I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease after two misdiagnoses of lupus and lyme’s disease. Only weeks after my diagnosis I was in and out of the hospital having surgeries and receiving most of my nutrients via TPN through a PICC line. I went from …
Read More »Alexandra’s Story (Breast Cancer)
For four years I had been complaining something was wrong in my breasts. Over this time, I had several mammograms, sonographies, and three MRIs. Still I was being told no suspicious images were found, even when my left nipple was leaking pus, and I could feel a nodule under my …
Read More »Amber’s Story (Crohn’s Disease)
My name is Amber, I was diagnosed with Crohn’s/Colitis when I was 17. I had a few near death experiences at my young age but never any major surgeries. I got married at 22, and in two years I had two beautiful little girls. I started getting extremely sick and …
Read More »Sarah’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Hodgkin’s Lymphoma)
In September 2010, I was 20 years old, and my lower hip started hurting at nighttime. Only at nighttime would my hip hurt. Then in October my back started hurting, and then my legs. The pain would be so unbearable that I would have to take four aspirin at night to …
Read More »Candi’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Undiagnosed)
I have been dealing with an unknown disorder since 2006. It affects my day to day life, my vision, my thoughts, etc. I also have graves thyroid disease, basilar migraines, bilateral vestibular hypofunction (loss of vestibular function in both ears), and horrible anxiety. I still work a full time job, …
Read More »