Survivor Stories & Information

Today, I am filled with guilt, embarrassment and frustration. It is a familiar place for me. I recently started a new job and had to call my boss at 6am to deliriously tell him I was “sick” and couldn’t make it in. By 9am, when I should have called my volunteer …

I was diagnosed Jan 11th. My right breast was a big rock, and so I went to the hospital. They said that it was extra tissue, which I knew it wasn’t, but because my insurance had expired, I couldn’t go again. I finally got insurance and got a mammogram, and it …

Long story short: My name is Robbie Lindsay. I was born on July 11th, 1982, in St. George, UT to Wes & Carol Bundy. I lived in Ivins for a bit, then moved to Springdale, UT, then moved to Logandale at the age of 3. I have called Moapa Valley …

I have always had a lot of hormone issues–PMDD, PCOS, infertility. So when my symptoms started, I brushed if off. I finally went to a gyno when I hadn’t had a period in 4 months. They ran a pregnancy test; it was negative. So they put me on birth control …

ENDOMETRIOSIS: LESSONS LEARNED FROM A HUSBAND My wife died in June 2012 from a very lethal form of cancer, arising from her endometriosis. It was a serious carcinoma that, by the time it was discovered, had grown to a large mass, invading the vaginal and rectum areas, and had metastasized …

Hello, I just recently turned 30 years old and am in the process of being officially diagnosed with PCOS. I have known for a very long time that there was something wrong with me, and it is almost a relief at this point to know that I was right. After I started …

This is my story. When I was twenty-years-old, I was in a car accident and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. At the time, one of the staff members took an x-ray of my chest. There was really no reason for her to do so, because I had no …

Last year, at the age of 45, I was taken to the emergency room for what I believed to be extreme constipation with abdominal pain. Once in the emergency room, I was told that I needed to be admitted because I had a hole in my colon and was becoming septic. I …

January 29th, 2015, I went to the emergency room with a migraine. February 4th, 2015, I went to my primary care doctor for a follow up visit for the migraine. She said, because she had not seen me since May, she wanted to do some routine blood work. I got …

Hello, ladies. Well, my story starts off with endometriosis–a strong and painful pain. It all started when I was 13, after my first period. I thought it was going to be like all teenage stuff, but I was wrong. I never thought it would be painful. Day after day in pain, and …