I spent most of my childhood sick with one thing or another. In and out of doctors’ offices monthly, if not weekly. When I turned 16 I started to get kidney infections every other month. My family doctor ignored all of my requests to send me to a specialist. He …
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It all started with tingling in my right hand. I just assumed that it was from all of the heavy lifting. But as time went on, it went down my right arm. So then I thought ok, carpal tunnel, so I started wearing the braces and continued working. My right …
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It’s been just two days since my doctor uttered the ugliest word imaginable. Cancer. It’s almost impossible for me to wrap my mind around cancer. I am a healthy, 34 year old, wife and mother with possible thyroid cancer. There it is again, cancer, it sounds as ugly today as it did yesterday. …
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