Survivor Stories & Information

A few ago months ago I was a beaming Bride-to-Be, planning day in and day out, trying to ignore the pain and swelling I was having in my hands. As the pain got worse, my fingers started changing colors, and the swelling reached a point where I couldn’t even get …

I had been pretty much healthy all of my adolescent years, until I was about 18 years old. I woke up one day and every inch of me was in chronic pain. I felt as if I had been run over. I thought maybe I had done too much the …

My name is Beckie Lamp. I am 34 years old. I have had Endometriosis for 15 years. I had surgeries to clear it out so I could try to have a family. Thankfully I was able to have 3 children. The pain got so bad at times, I couldn’t even …

I am a 38 year old wife, mother of a nine year old girl and five year old boy. I was diagnosed with Melanoma in April of 2011. I did not have a mole or a freckle. I had cut the back of my left leg shaving above my ankle …

On my 34th Birthday this year, I found a lump on the upper outer area of my breast that felt like a marble. I knew, “uh oh” that’s not supposed to be there. The next day I saw two doctors, one said it was cancer and that I need a …

My fight like a girl story begins directly from the womb, but I wouldn’t have to fight seriously until I was 10. I was born with a rare pituitary condition called septo optic dysplasia which caused my pituitary to not be able to keep up with my growing body. I …

My story starts out very different from most endometriosis stories; but ends the same way…with pain! I didn’t get my period until I was seventeen; and when I did it was only twice a year. The abdominal pain started the same year I was married, 1990. My husband and I fought …

I am 32 years old and was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer in August 2011. I found my own cancer through a routine monthly self exam. At my age, no one expected it to be cancer. I do have some family history with emphasis being on my Aunt Lisa …

In October 1999, my first husband passed away (heart related).  He left behind 3 young children and his wife (me…in my 40’s).  In June of 2000, I went to the dermatologist, something I had needed to do because I had a mole on my neck that was dark, irregular in …

My daughter graduated high school at the end of May. She was 17 years old. Around that time, she complained of being tired. I explained it away by telling her to quit going to all of the graduation parties and staying out so late. Then she said that she lost …