by Natalie Raines | Dec 1, 2024 | Hope Stories Volume 1, Issue 4, Mind & Body Volume 1, Issue 4
I’d like to equate my life’s journey to a sailing yacht on a great sea. I charted my course and set sail a long time ago. I have run into rough seas on occasion and adjusted my sails or altered my course to find calmer waters. My sailing yacht was 57...
by Stephanie | Aug 30, 2024 | Hope Stories Volume 1, Issue 3
Didn’t she ring the bell? Isn’t she done yet? Here’s the “quick” version. In March of 2022, I was diagnosed with Stage 3C Inflammatory Breast Cancer and started treatment at Cleveland Clinic. I had no idea how serious IBC truly was and thought we were following the...
by Kristine | Aug 30, 2024 | Hope Stories Volume 1, Issue 3
On January 24, 2014 at 4:45 pm I was diagnosed with stage 3B, almost C, triple negative inflammatory breast cancer. A day I will never forget! I remember crying the entire weekend but then I woke up on Monday morning with a mission. A mission to fight! I was only 39...
by Tiffany | Aug 30, 2024 | Hope Stories Volume 1, Issue 3
This month marks six years that I received my reoccurrence diagnosis. This one hit harder, this one was scarier, this one felt like there was absolutely no hope!! I of course have followed the IBC Facebook page since my initial diagnosis in December of...
by Eva | May 29, 2024 | Family, Hope Stories
Five years ago, I was diagnosed with stage 3 inflammatory breast cancer at the age of 36. I was a busy working seemingly healthy mom of two and suddenly I was a cancer patient. I hated taking something for a headache and here I was facing chemotherapy. I would...
by Morningstar | Feb 22, 2024 | Hope Stories Volume 1, Issue 1, Survivorship
It was just beginning to get warm in April of 2010 when we took a trip to Galveston with our kids who were 12 and 3 years old. About this time my husband had noticed a small pea sized ball on my left breast, never had he told me that I needed to go to the doctor but...
