Purple Colored Sunglasses I walked with a pretty fast gait. I walked around others who couldn’t catch up to me. Rolled my eyes at those who were too slow. Cringed at the elderly who took too much time getting up the steps to the bus. I cringed at ANYONE who took too …
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Here I am, another sleepless night. I like to blame it on all of the anti-convulsants I am on for my trigeminal neuralgia. A facial pain disorder which started about six months ago. The pain is so bad that at times I end up in the ER begging for pain …
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Rheumatoid Arthritis hurts! I found that out 3 years ago when I was finally diagnosed – the pain had a REAL name! RA has forced me to leave my job as a teacher aide in a home for very disturbed youth. I am permanently disabled now and miss working with …
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Hi there, my name is Tatum, I was born in 1990. My journey started when I was 9 years old, my first ever period. I hardly knew what periods were so I assumed the immense bleeding and pain were all normal. My mother watched me over time, taking days off …
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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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