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A few ago months ago I was a beaming Bride-to-Be, planning day in and day out, trying to ignore the pain and swelling I was having in my hands. As the pain got worse, my fingers started changing colors, and the swelling reached a point where I couldn’t even get …

I had been pretty much healthy all of my adolescent years, until I was about 18 years old. I woke up one day and every inch of me was in chronic pain. I felt as if I had been run over. I thought maybe I had done too much the …

I am a 38 year old wife, mother of a nine year old girl and five year old boy. I was diagnosed with Melanoma in April of 2011. I did not have a mole or a freckle. I had cut the back of my left leg shaving above my ankle …

My fight like a girl story begins directly from the womb, but I wouldn’t have to fight seriously until I was 10. I was born with a rare pituitary condition called septo optic dysplasia which caused my pituitary to not be able to keep up with my growing body. I …

In October 1999, my first husband passed away (heart related).  He left behind 3 young children and his wife (me…in my 40’s).  In June of 2000, I went to the dermatologist, something I had needed to do because I had a mole on my neck that was dark, irregular in …

My daughter graduated high school at the end of May. She was 17 years old. Around that time, she complained of being tired. I explained it away by telling her to quit going to all of the graduation parties and staying out so late. Then she said that she lost …

Hello my name is Tiffany and I am writing because of the story that I just read of Carol. We find bumps and we think nothing of it. When I was 15 years old, I went to my foot doctor because I had a mole that would get caught on …

I was 17 years old when I first started having joint pain in my wrists and fingers. My doctor referred me to a rheumatologist who ran a battery of tests for my weird lack of feeling, paleness, and other rather “strange” symptoms. After ruling out Rheumatoid Arthritis, she gave me …

At first, I wasn’t going to share my story because my story seemed easy compared to the other stories on Fight Like a Girl Club and to other total hip replacement stories. At the age of 37, I had a left total hip replacement. I had no warning signs that …

Well, I am a fairly new fighter although the doctors have explained that I have had this disease for several years. The MRIs and bone scans indicate that the damage to my hips and spine began approximately 4 years ago. I was blessed to spend those first 3 years fairly …