A typical dentist appointment for a cavity turned into a complete life changing situation. My dentist wasn’t concerened about the rotting tooth (I ignored for way to long) but he was very concerned about the lesion under my tongue. He sent me to an oral surgeon who immediately hooked me up to an ENT. By […]
On 8/8/2019 my world turned upside down. Diagnosis, Lobular Carcinoma of the left breast, breast cancer. After 4 months Chemotherapy, a masectomy including lymph nodes and 29 radiation treatments and Xeloda chemotherapy by mouth I am Cancer Free. A Fresh Start and a New Beginning. Now each day for me is a gift. I am
This is my grandma, Martha. This is a story of her journey with Uterine Leiomyosarcoma; and is in very loving memory of her. She was diagnosed with Uterine Sarcoma in September of 2018 and went to Heaven April 28th of 2019. She faced many challenges during this time. She spent over a month in The
It was the middle of March 2020 and I was having stomach pains and felt a hernia growing. The pains increased causing me to have very bad pains. I went to the ER and had to be alone while my brother waited outside in his car. COVID-19 has just got bad so no visitors. I
At the start of my junior year in high school, I faced an obstacle that changed my life forever. I was diagnosed with Stage IV CIC-DUX4, “Ewing’s Like” Sarcoma. I had a 12cm tumor in my calf and nodules in my lungs. My world came down on me. I considered dropping out of school, all
I am a resident of Dehradun in India, a Geophysicist by profession, I have worked in several Oil & Gas Exploration projects in Asia and Southern Africa. I was posted for an oil and gas exploration project in difficult terrain conditions of Assam (India) in July 2019 when I started having high fever. I was
I pulled a muscle playing soccer and brushed it off. The next day I was limping so bad I had to find an orthopedic doctor. They did an X-ray and found a mass on the outside of my femur and referred me to a surgeon, it ended up being cancer. This all started in 2016.
In 2014 I was diagnosed with Thyroid cancer. Had a complete removal. Then in 2016 I went in for a dnc and the doctor found cancer in my uterus and it started to spread. Had a complete hysterectomy and found out it was stage 3 endometrial cancer. Tried chemo and was allergic to the meds.
June 2010 I was diagnosed with GBM Brain Cancer. Local doctors gave me 6 months at most to live. My family would not accept that! They got me to MD Anderson in Orlando, Florida. The specialist there immediately looked at my scans and said it was not GBM that It was Astrocytoma Stage 3. I
I was diagnosed with stage 4 left lung cancer going on 3 years, I’m going strong just had my 43rd treatment and very blessed!
