Cause: Uterine Cancer

The year was 2010, I just started a new career path, my son was graduating from UW LaCrosse and my daughter was finishing her first year at UW Stevens Point. My niece was engaged and set to get married in October. I can’t express how excited our family was. So …

Having uterine cancer surprised and scared me at the same time. I had a complete hysterectomy that removed all cancer cells. Additionally, I had 6 sessions of chemo and 25 sessions of radiation. I had the support of my family, friends, doctors and nurses that helped me in my cancer …

May 11, 2016 will forever be a date embedded in my mind. That was the day that after hospital stays, blood transfusions from nearly bleeding out, and two surgeries (D&C and hysterectomy) that I learned that the part of me that was supposed to allow me to help bring a …

I was so tired all the time, I passed out at work a couple times and then an older lady I worked with gave me some advice. She gave me the name of a doctor that saved my life. I was only 24 years old, had 2 young children and …

In 2012, my husband was diagnosed with acute kidney disease w/renal failure. He was driving a truck at the time, making 10-day trips from Texas to New Mexico. We would go to his nephrologist each time we came in off the truck. On April 1, 2012, I started my period. …

February 2018, I was diagnosed with stage 1a uterine cancer at the age of 32. For two years, I was fighting pain and heavy bleeding, going to the doctor and them not finding anything and just telling me to get on the pill. Two years of not finding answers, two …

Hi, just a year or so ago, my daughter, Cristy, wrote my breast cancer story. I’m nearly 5 years free and so happy. Cristy was with me every step of the way, along with her brothers and my husband. Cristy lives 5-6 hours from me, but every three weeks, she …

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 …

It was April 2013. I was having major pain in my abdomen for months. I didn’t have health insurance so I was driving back and forth from my home to a county hospital multiple times a week without any answers from doctors. Finally, that October, I received a diagnosis and …

My mom was a cancer survivor. It started with uterine cancer in the early 80’s which eventually spread to her pancreas. Years later she was diagnosed with cancer in her right breast. A few years later she was diagnosed with cancer again in her left breast. After having both breasts …