Julia's Story

As a childhood cancer survivor, just getting a diagnosis was the first battle. I had been a previously healthy fifteen- year old, but one day in 1989 I developed flu-like symptoms. Within 48 hours, my fever, fatigue and nausea turned into swollen glands that made it very hard to move my neck. I started to violently throw up.

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Aimee's Story

When I was two years old, after returning from a trip to Florida, I came down with a cough and cold and my mom brought me to the pediatrician’s office. As my doctor was leaving the exam room, my mom called him back, reminding him to check my rib cage. My doctor felt my abdomen, looked at my mom and said she needed to get me an x-ray immediately.

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Shannon's Story

It began harmlessly enough – a jumble of symptoms with no clear cause and nothing to suggest, to my 12-year-old self, that anything was seriously wrong. One chest x-ray later and I was sent home with a diagnosis of pneumonia and a heavy dose of antibiotics.

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