Lately, even as sick as I am — recovering from a lupus flare that began six months ago — I’ve learned to be grateful for the disease I have. My appreciation slowly started maybe about a year ago when I was starting to feel somewhat better and was told I might be going …
Read More »Melanie’s Story (Brain Tumor)
I was sick with headaches for about 6 months, and progressively got worse. I started having slurred speech, my legs going numb when I would walk, the left side of my face was numb, I would black out, and muscle spasms in my neck that were getting worse, and this …
Read More »Bobby’s Story (Liver Disease – Hepatitis C)
I am a 59-year-old man. I worked with women in the Hospital for many years. I would prefer to have a woman for me than against me. I contracted Hepatitis C back in 1972 starting an IV on a woman in Viet Nam. I got poked in the finger with …
Read More »Gabriella’s Story (Congenital Heart Disease)
My high school sweetheart and I married in February 2002 at the young ages of 20 and 19. We decided a year and a half later it was time to start a family. It took 9 months of trying before we successfully conceived our first baby. She was born Friday, …
Read More »Laurie’s Fight Like A Girl Story (Hepatitis C)
December 1988, the Friday night after Christmas. I was excited about going out with my friends to Tully’s, the local Bar and Grill. I put on the beautiful Gold satin blouse along with my black pants my mom gave me for Christmas. I was sitting at a booth window which faced the parking …
Read More »Alyssa’s Fight Like A Girl Story (Lupus)
Hello Fight Like A Girl Club! My name is Alyssa and I have Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. I am 14 years old and a freshman in high school. I was diagnosed 6 years ago by my rheumatologist and have since been battling with lupus. Lupus is a chronic disease in which your immune …
Read More »Tracy’s Fight Like A Girl Story (RSD)
My story begins in 2001 when I went to the ER for kidney stones. The IV I had did something crazy and I now have reflex sympathetic dystrophy. Since then, I have also been diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, fibromyalgia, autoimmune hypothyroidism with adrenal fatigue, as well as parry-romberg syndrome. I have started a …
Read More »Diane’s Story (Kidney Cancer, Breast Cancer, Ovarian Cancer)
At age 45, I have battled cancer 4 times. My story with cancer began when I was 17 years old after a trip to the ER because I had the worst tummy ache of my life. I had to be put through numerous tests that showed something I would later learn was known …
Read More »Audrey’s Story (Breast Cancer)
“GIVE GOD THE GLORY” The month of October 2009 was a change for my family and me. A routine examination by my Doctor changed my life (somebody say – God is good. Psalm 34:8 KJV). She ordered a baseline mammogram for me to have, no particular reason, she just decided that it was …
Read More »Debby’s Story (Diabetes)
Usually when someone tells me of a diagnosis of cancer or something else I know what to do to support and be there. I just found out that I have type 2 diabetes. Just went and found out what I need to do and I see an MD tomorrow for the rest. Just …
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