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One winter while I was in the midst of applying to medical school, I began having muscle and joint pain in my arms, legs, and hands. The pain was accompanied by a fever of unknown origin. The symptoms came as a sudden onset, not gradual. I made several trips to …

I remember being a little girl and having the feeling that something just wasn’t right. I would ball up and cry to myself through the years. I’d make the comment about how I thought I had cancer or something like that. Guess it probably did sound a bit dramatic coming …

My name is Yvonne. I am a 39-year-old mother of three beautiful children ages 21, 17, and 14. I can’t tell you how excited and sad I felt after finding this website. At first I thought I would just read some of the stories about mixed connective tissue disease just …

I have stage 3 Sarcoma cancer and where it is located is very rare; it is in my face. I had surgery about 7 weeks ago. They had to open up the left side of my face and take out my pallet. The surgeons took out the tumor and it …

After a month of calling around to try and find a dermatologist, I decided I couldn’t wait any more. I contacted my general practitioner to at least have someone look at the mole that had seemed to change overnight. I knew there wasn’t much the GP could do, but I …

There is a light at the end of the tunnel! In 2007 I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Cancer, 6 mos after my ex-husband and I were getting a divorce. I felt my life was upside down. In the midst of this I had a sweet angel my daughter, Taelor. …

10 years ago this coming summer, I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. I was already dealing with diabetes type 2, Hashimoto’s disease (thyroid disease), polycystic  ovarian syndrome, asthma and allergies. The diagnosis for rheumatoid arthritis came as a shock. How I was diagnosed is something else. I had not been feeling good for …

I am 23, the mother of a pop singer; Cayleigh, a dancer; Micaela, and the Boss man; Christopher Jr., and I am with my true knight in shining armor (or as I like to say my knight in shiny tinfoil). Right after I turned 23 and I was 8 months pregnant with …

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who noticed that she had to go to the bathroom more than once in the morning. She didn’t think it was anything at that time… She would feel discomfort and have to use the bathroom every morning a few times before …

In the 11th month of my 47th year, I was diagnosed with stage 3c ovarian cancer. My ob-gyn first thought it was fibroids. She had me get a sonogram and a cancer antigen test. The sonogram came back with a mass in my left lower quadrant and the cancer antigen …