I was diagnosed with Turner syndrome and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. That’s when my life battle began especially for my learning and my weight not to mention my height. I’ve had to learn to live with these conditions I call frenemies. I thank God for having my parents and their support. Then …
Read More »Chaneta’s Story (Leukemia, Lymphoma)
Hi, my name is Chaneta, I like to go by Juliet. This past year has been an interesting one, to say the least. I’m a singer-songwriter who wrote and released an album in October 2017. I thought the year was going to be an amazing one–promoting and performing–unfortunately, I performed …
Read More »Migdalia’s Story (Lymphoma and Triple Negative Breast Cancer)
At the age of nine, I was diagnosed with lymphoma. I underwent radiation and chemo for a combined total of 18 months. I was bullied in school for not having hair and for having to wear a wig–it was rough. During my remission, I was blessed with two beautiful children …
Read More »Alex Andrea’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Hodgkin’s Lymphoma)
My journey started in May 2012. I had a cough and swollen neck and didn’t feel well. I went to the ER and got misdiagnosed three separate times. They said it was either a virus, injury, goiter, or thyroid problems. When the doctor left, the nurse finally said, “Something’s wrong …
Read More »Janae’s Story (Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Uterine Cancer)
This is my story. When I was twenty-years-old, I was in a car accident and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. At the time, one of the staff members took an x-ray of my chest. There was really no reason for her to do so, because I had no …
Read More »Lisa’s Story (Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Bone Cancer, Leukemia)
Hello, my name is Lisa. I guess I should start at the beginning. In July 2013, I found out my husband was cheating, so I took my children and left. I started what, at the time, I thought was the hardest fight of my life–divorce and custody battle. Little did I …
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 »Jacqueline’s Story (Hodgkin’s Lymphoma)
Six years ago my mommy, my ROCK, was diagnosed with pre-stage (nearly unheard of catching this cancer so soon) small cell lung cancer. We weren’t really surprised, you can’t be when you know it runs in the family and she had been a life long smoker. But we were still …
Read More »Crystal’s Story (Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Schwannoma, Thyroid Cancer)
Hello, my name is Crystal. I am a three time cancer survivor. I had Hodgkin’s disease at age 14, schwannoma at 18, and thyroid cancer at 26. I had the treatments of chemotherapy, radiation, and bone marrow. I have had my spleen removed, and a lump removed from my neck. This …
Read More »Special Care
When you have been a cancer patient, doctors are generally a lot more cautious with you. If anything comes back with so much of a sniff of being abormal, everything tends to go into panic mode and no stone is left unturned. That’s how it feels sometimes anyway. I guess this is …
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