My name is Misty Linn and I was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer at the age of 23. I am all of my doctors youngest patient! I went for my yearly check up around February 2012. My doctor was doing a breast exam when she said, “I feel something …
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My parents were told that I had CF when I was just a few months old. My prognosis was that my life would end by the age of six. When I reached six the doctors said I would live until I was around 16. Yet here I am almost 32 …
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Sometimes we need to share our journey to help inspire those who need it and sometimes we need to read our journey to remind ourselves how far we have come and continue to push ourselves to become the best we are meant to be. My path since May 2012… At …
Read More »Well my problems started two years ago, I’m 45 now, and It started with a headache that lasted three days and wouldn’t go away. I went to the doctor and my blood pressure was sky high (170/110) and this was the first time I’ve ever had high blood pressure. I’m …
Read More »I’m 17 years old. Two years ago I had a seizure my 10th grade year, it still haunts me everyday. I’m in 12th grade now and I’m having trouble moving on from that seizure. My mom and dad tell me I need to drive, my sister’s tell me I need …
Read More »When I was 28 I started to feel very tired and my period’s were all over the place. They had been regular as clockwork my entire life. I was also gaining weight quickly, in a three year period I had gained almost 100 pounds even through my eating habits were …
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When I was 13 I was taken to the hospital for blue fingers and toes, and I had been sleeping more than normal. The hospital diagnosed it as Raynaud’s phenomenon and lupus. For several years after that, along with various doctors, I was diagnosed and undiagnosed. I had barely graduated …
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This story is about my mom. In June, four months after she lost her dad to cancer in 2010, she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. I never thought I would have to say my Mom is a cancer survivor. That July, five months to the day after Pap died, my …
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“Listen Carefully, It Whispers.” A few years ago I would have asked, “What in the world does that mean?” Today I understand completely. I’m sure the start of my dance with ovarian cancer began close to five years ago when my period that started in November 2008 did not end …
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Hello, I’m not Lily Kuhn. I am her daughter, and I would like to share her story. She was diagnosed with Addison’s disease. This illness drains you of energy. She raised my little brother and I since I was about two years old, so she’s had this disease for about 19 …
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