My name is Shalina Tovar and I battle Lupus, a kidney disease. I have been fighting like a girl since May of 2005 which is when I was officially diagnosed. My Lupus has caused my left hip to fail. I’ve been dealing with avascular necrosis of the hip since 2009 and now …
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It’s been just two days since my doctor uttered the ugliest word imaginable. Cancer. It’s almost impossible for me to wrap my mind around cancer. I am a healthy, 34 year old, wife and mother with possible thyroid cancer. There it is again, cancer, it sounds as ugly today as it did yesterday. …
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I’m 45 yrs young, married for 22 yrs to a great man, and I have a 21 yr old daughter. I was born with Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy. Ended up with scoliosis from the LGMD. Then diagnosed in Feb 2007 with Stage IIIC Ovarian Cancer – had 6 rounds of chemo, was declared cancer-free …
Read More »Like anyone, I was afraid for my mom. She found out she had kidney disease when she got pregnant with her first child (me). She had a baby girl in May of 1994 and got married in February 1995. She was only 29 when she had her first kid and her kidneys were …
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My life changed in 1998 when I started to just cry and cry and cry and not keeping home at home and work at work. It all turned into one mess. I was a mom, I owned my own home and still do – a single mom with a man …
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Hello Ladies, I’m a 31 yr old woman who found out April of last year that I have Endometriosis. My OBGyn is very nice and understanding so she tried to explain it to me, but I still didn’t really understand what it was until I found some information and graphs …
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Well, for about half my life, I had been feeling a lot of joint pain. It mostly started with my knees at first. I thought maybe I had just injured them in some way. As time progressed I began having knee and back pain. I got older and began to …
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Hey there. My name is Pam and I am 40, yeah, older than dirt as my little girl says. It seems I have had a lot on my plate lately and would love to say I am winning the battle. My head is still above water, but it’s getting harder …
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Hello! My name is Falanya and at 33 years old, I have been “fighting like a girl” since I was 10 years old when my mother suddenly fell ill. I remember the first day Lupus entered my life: I was walking with my mother by my side on my way …
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I’ve been sick, literally, since the day I was born. My real mom is an addict who couldn’t get sober while pregnant. I was born early and addicted. The drugs that sent her into labor early, also magnified a congential heart defect that runs in my family. I had open …
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