Survivor Stories & Information

I was 39 when my husband noticed a difference in the size of one breast (right). Our family has a very large amount of cancer on my paternal side, and to add to it I had just lost an Aunt to reoccurring breast cancer at the age of 56. I …

My name is Christine Medina. For many years I went from doctor to doctor because I believed something was wrong with me, my body and the way it was working. Some doctors were in disbelief, and I truly think that others just thought I was over reacting. Blood work and …

I wasn’t even 21 when my dad passed away in 2008. Less than a month later I was battling crippling pain in my hip. I had surgery on it in 2009, without a definitive diagnosis to what was actually causing my pain. To this day I still only know it …

I was told about four years ago that I had fibromyalgia. Not long after a motorcycle accident my body began to hurt. I thought it was from the accident so it took me several months to report to my PCP how I was feeling. I started having memory loss, forgetting …

When I tell people my story, they often look at me like I am crazy. I have been told my story sounds like a bad for television movie. One week changed my life forever. Something was off, with the way I felt and with my marriage. I discovered I had …

I have Stage IV endometriosis. I found out because an ovarian cyst landed me in the ER. Three times. Via surgery, I found out my particular case includes bowel endometriosis, with adhesions that have fused my colon to my uterus and cul-de-sac. I write this post as I recover from …

I am a 49 year old wife, mother, grandmother. I have been living with Asthma, Emphysema, bronchiectasis and now stage 4 COPD for over 35 years. I am on the waiting list for a double lung transplant at Brigham and Women’s hospital in Boston, Mass. I am living with oxygen now …

On Valentine’s Day 2013 I was given the news, I heard that horrible ”C” word.  My doctor had told me I had Thyroid Cancer.  As I sat on the other end of the line thinking this is it my life is over I’m going to die, my doctor was telling …

At the age of 24, I was diagnosed with stage 2 ovarian cancer. I had seen four doctors within two days. The first three doctors told me that the pain/discomfort I had was simply “normal for a girl,” and that I was “too young to realize that.” After being told …

OK, where to begin…. it’s been one hell of a ride, and it’s not over yet. I was diagnosed with stage 1 triple negative breast cancer at 32 years old. In July 2012, after the removal of a benign cyst, it was discovered that cancer was behind the cyst. I …