Ok, so here goes. I’ve always been told I could never have kids because I was sexually abused as a child–brutally–to be honest. About 10 years ago, I got bit at the same time on my leg by three brown recluse spiders and ended getting a staph infection in my …
Read More »Jania Marie’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Thyroid Cancer, Lung Disease, Liver Failure)
I was just recently told that my thyroid cancer is back. I am not sure there is much they can do. I’m also currently sitting in the hospital because I have a pleural effusion, one in each lung. To add to the fun I also have a pericardial effusion and …
Read More »Sara’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Papillary Thyroid Cancer)
On November 2012, a lump appeared on the side of my neck. The doctors told me it was probably nothing, but that we should check it out anyways. It turns out that the lump was a swollen lymph node. After an ultrasound and a biopsy I was diagnosed with papillary thyroid …
Read More »Amy’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Thyroid Cancer)
I just got home today from the hospital after having my thyroid, my left parathyroids, as well as numerous lymph nodes removed because of papillary thyroid cancer. I was diagnosed officially on July 2. Back in May, my husband and I elected to do an advanced body scan (EBT). I …
Read More »Liana’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Thyroid Cancer)
When I was 23 years old I was a mother to two small children who were 2 and 3 years old. I had discovered a lump on my throat, so I went to my Dr. the very next day and was sent the next week for an ultrasound and biopsy …
Read More »Shana’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Thyroid Cancer)
On Valentine’s Day 2013 I was given the news, I heard that horrible ”C” word. My doctor had told me I had Thyroid Cancer. As I sat on the other end of the line thinking this is it my life is over I’m going to die, my doctor was telling …
Read More »Abby’s Fight Like A Girl Story (Thyroid Cancer)
I had waited my entire life for the moment to finally come. I was finally starting my quest through nursing school and couldn’t have been more excited. My happiness soon ended when on January 17, 2012, the second day of nursing school, my endocrinologist called me and told me I had thyroid …
Read More »Catie’s Fight Like A Girl Story (Thyroid Cancer)
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 …
Read More »Jerica’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Thyroid Cancer)
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 …
Read More »Kim’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Thyroid Cancer, Uterine Cancer)
For years, my husband and I struggled with infertility but finally, after drugs, procedures and lots of heartbreak, we were finally blessed with a baby (I already had an 11 yr old daughter from a previous marriage). Just 2 short years later in 2006, at the age of 34, I …
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