Survivor Stories & Information

I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 2005. I’m now fighting this disease and hope my struggle with it will help others. My A1c has been all over the map. I’ve battled with food issues for many years. Now I want to try to get it under control. I’m …

Sometimes being strong is facing the one thing you fear the most. I am 25 years old and was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer. Fortunately, this past July 2012, I beat it. After my lumpectomy I tried to bury my thoughts, feelings and the fact that I actually had …

I was 14 years old when my pain started. I suddenly felt like I was in the body of a 80 year, old-hobbling around. I started seeing sports doctors because I was playing basketball at the time. The only thing that doctor did was inject cortisone to help with the …

My battle started 10 years ago when the doctor said ‘brain tumor’.  The next word I heard was ‘surgery’…four days later I went under the knife. I was petrified, but I knew God was with me. After an 8 hour surgery I came out into recovery; a tumor and my …

I am a wife, mother, girl-scout leader, college student and I work part time. Shortly after my 29th birthday, I began having severe headaches. I have always had a high tolerance for pain. After gallbladder surgery and both of my C-sections, I rarely had to take the pain medicine. The …

I am a mother, wife,  grandmother and a breast cancer survivor. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in September of 2011. I had a bilateral mastectomy with recon. I have one more surgery in October, and then my reconstruction will be complete. I am a cancer free patient of Memorial Sloan Kettering …

My Name is Laura Kelly-Pifer and I have fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis. I was diagnosed over 8 years ago and it’s been quite a journey. In the beginning, I experienced mild pain. Then over the course of the last few years, my pain increased. There were times that it would …

In April of 2010, two days before a big dance competition, I was in gym class playing street hockey. A girl in my class hit me repeatedly in the foot with her hockey stick causing a small stress fracture. But, I still danced at the dance competition that weekend, which …

Here I am at 38; a widow, a mother of 2 teenagers, and I just got hit with the news that I have breast cancer…and it’s stage 4!!! All I could think was ‘What are my kids going to do without me? They lost their father, they can’t lose me …

My mother, who is also by best friend, battled and won with God and our families help, stage III breast cancer, 15 years ago. She had a lumpectomy, 33 treatments of radiation, and 5 months of chemo. Life had got back to “normal”  but the thought of cancer always was …