I was diagnosed with breast cancer 10 days before my 50th birthday on November 6, 2012. My family doctor felt a tiny lump in my left breast when I had gone in to have her check out a cyst in my right breast. I had a mammogram on a Friday …
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In June 2015, I went for an annual mammogram and it was abnormal. I was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer on July 8, 2015. It was my husband’s birthday and it hit him harder than me. I went to church that evening and prayed and was prayed over by …
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On May 22, 2015, I went in for a routine colonoscopy. They found what they suspected was cancer. After further tests, consultations, etc, I had surgery several days later. They removed about 10 inches of my colon and a bunch of lymph nodes. On June 2, 2015, it was confirmed …
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Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma (ESS) is very rare; affecting 2-6 women of one million. June 3, 2019, was the day of my diagnosis after being hospitalized for hemorrhaging with no previous symptoms. I had surgery the next day, and that July I began chemotherapy. I completed chemotherapy on October 30, 2019. …
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In 2015, a lump became a lesion. Scans showed breast cancer in both breasts. I had 4 surgeries and a bilateral mastectomy; no reconstruction. It was followed by 3 rounds of Taxotere chemotherapy and 55 radiation treatments. Sonny, my dog, and I rescued each other to help me through chemotherapy. …
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I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis the day before Thanksgiving in 2007. I’m pretty sure I’ve had this disease years before that. The first signs were small, like sleepiness to pain in the back of my head and progressed from there. I have to fight everyday to get up and …
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My story continues every day. I wasn’t taking care of my health when Osteogenesis Imperfecta and complications from it (asthma, heart issues, scoliosis) got worse. In 2015, I took control of my life; I lost 50 pounds, 12 inches off my waist, and reduced my body fat by 25 percent! …
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Lupus affects your kidneys, heart, lungs, joints, skin, weight, gives you severe anemia and fatigue, and some patients even have hair loss. Seems like a lot, huh? Well, it gets worst. They never tell you how these sicknesses affect you MENTALLY more than anything. I’ve been feeling really insecure lately, …
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I was so tired all the time, I passed out at work a couple times and then an older lady I worked with gave me some advice. She gave me the name of a doctor that saved my life. I was only 24 years old, had 2 young children and …
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I was 25 years old with a 5-year-old son, a 2-year-old daughter and I just had given birth to a baby girl 5 weeks ago. I was healing from a C-section and was still in a tremendous amount of pain. Being my first C-section, I thought this was normal. Little …
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