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Hello, all!! I fight like a girl!! I am 45 years old and have always been healthy. By that I mean that I’ve never been one to get colds or viruses when everyone else around me is sick. I’ve always had physically demanding jobs and have stayed pretty active. As I passed …

Hi, my name is Ashton, and I’m from Alaska. In August of 2012, I noticed my cramps getting severely worse. By the time February 2013 rolled around, I had been in the emergency room and seen several doctors. My pain was so bad that I couldn’t move, and no test, …

Hello, I want to inspire and give hope with my story for anyone struggling to cope with disease or a loved one. I was a sickly baby, born in 1988, just under 5 lbs. My dad worked 3 jobs when my mom was away to pay for a babysitter who …

Last August, before I felt sick, I ran a blood drive through Mass General Hospital with the Blood Mobile and collected 30 pints of blood. The Drive was to “Replenish the blood bank that was depleted from the Boston Marathon bombing”. It turned out I ended up using 2 pints …

I’ll be 34 next week. I met my partner and children’s dad when I was sixteen. We had 2 children together, and after a 10 year gap I found out I was pregnant, very unexpectedly, with our 3rd child. On Boxing Day, December 2008, my partner Kyle was suffering from severe head …

Bethani is a 12-year-old, sweet, bubbly, kind-hearted, wonderful Christian girl. She was recently diagnosed with Spindle Cell Sarcoma which resulted in the removal of a baseball sized tumor in her right arm. In order to remove the cancer, the doctors had to completely remove her radius bone and the tendons …

I am 48 years young and was officially diagnosed with Rheumatoid Disease two years ago, but I have been living in pain for many years. In my mid 40s, the joint and body pain became unbearable, and I was having a hard time making it to work. At my request, …

In May I posted on here that I was diagnosed with uterine cancer. I had my surgery on July 14 and was diagnosed with stage 1A grade two. I will be having radiation treatment as a preventive measure, but it has been caught in the earliest stages. I developed complications …

Brittany did it!!!! She is a Chemo Grad!!! After fighting LangerHan Cells Hystiosytosis (LCH) for a little over a year, she WON!!! She is officially in remission!! Way to Fight Like a Girl Brittany!!!!!       Brittany Indiana Submitted 07/07/2014 The informational content of this article is intended to …

Hi all. I’m 36, and for years I had been struggling with really heavy periods since I was young, but was told it was something I just had to live with. Occasionally doctors would put me on the pill to regulate things, but nothing seemed to work, and I was …