My story is intended to be one of encouragement and of strength for those faced with tremendous adversity. A little background: my paternal aunts faced breast cancer before I did. They did not survive their diagnoses. I was urged to start having mammograms at 35. This saved my life. I …
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Hope all is well! My name is Darinda, and I would love to share my breast cancer journey. I am a blessed victor of stage 3c triple negative invasive ductal carcinoma. My world was forever changed on January 15, 2021. The cancer initially formed in my left breast and spread …
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Every four minutes, someone somewhere in the United States is diagnosed with epilepsy, and this is the story of how I became 1 in 26. My name is Robyn and I’m an epilepsy patient from Maryland. This is my story. It begins on the evening of December 30th, 2015. I …
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My story began in 2016 when I was diagnosed with HER2+ breast cancer. I fought through chemotherapy, a lumpectomy, and radiation. I spent 5 years on Anastrozole to prevent the cancer from coming back. Fast forward to 2022. I was diagnosed again with DCIS breast cancer in the same breast, …
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In August of 2015, at the age of 30, I was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of breast cancer, also known as triple negative breast cancer. During all of the tests that I had undergone at the time, I found out that I had the BRCA 1 gene. I …
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At 12 years old, my life forever changed when I received the devastating news that my best friend, my mom, was diagnosed with breast cancer. My entire world collapsed, but I wanted to be strong for my mom and was by her side throughout the entire journey. I witnessed her …
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My journey started December 2021. I was having difficulty swallowing. At the end of January 2022, I went for an endoscopy. On February 9,2022, I was diagnosed with stage 3 esophageal cancer. My world seemed to crumble before my eyes. In March, I had surgery for a feeding tube and …
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I’m a 42 year old woman, and on May 3, 2022, I found out a lump in my breast was cancer. I was diagnosed with stage 2 triple negative breast cancer, which is rare. Currently, I’m still fighting, but the tumor has shrunk so small it’s almost gone; I praise …
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I was diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2010. I had a lumpectomy, chemotherapy and radiation. On May 9, 2011, I was certified cancer free. On February 22,2022, I was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer. I went through a 6 hour surgery on March 17th to remove all the …
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After years of many medical issues, I was finally diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease. I had gained nearly 100 pounds, and had multiple other issues to go along with it. I was miserable and contemplated ending it all many times. I finally decided to take my life back. I began to …
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