Laura Briggs
Shortly after having chemotherapy to end the ectopic pregnancy, the scan revealed that the baby was in fact inside the womb with a beating heart.
Shortly after having chemotherapy to end the ectopic pregnancy, the scan revealed that the baby was in fact inside the womb with a beating heart.
As I cried in front of the cash register at CVS, a woman pitied me for having my college health insurance expire the day before and paid the $200 fee for my medication, saying "Christmas came early this year."
I worked 8 hours today stocking a store, complete with lifting, bending, stretching, only to throw out my back while flushing the toilet at home.
When he told his four-year-old daughter that the doctor just needed to look at her eyes to make sure they were okay, she whispered, "Will he put them back in when he's done looking at them?"
I had hoped that the first time my doctor handed me a sonogram picture it would be of my baby, not of a golf ball sized fibroid tumor on my uterus.
"What on earth is that?" are not words that inspire confidence when you're undergoing a colonoscopy.
My doctor told me i was 2 lbs. overweight and suggested I join Weight Watchers.
I went to the emergency room and was diagnosed with a headache.
It really screwed up my day when the dermatologist told me that the weird scar on my nose was actually skin cancer.
Because it's difficult for me to bend, I cleaned the base of the shower with a pot scrubber tied to the bottom of my walking stick
I am still not sure if the IBS, stunted growth, amenorrhea, depression, and anxiety I now am cursed with were worth the flawless skin I sought so passionately.
I never liked food containing anything soy until the realization that they help me lose weight.
I was reading Calvin and Hobbes, drinking orange juice, when the sudden seizure ripped through me like a hyperactive kid with a bag of Doritos.
People say that Fibromyalgia is not a "real" disease, but if they had to live with what I live with everyday, they would never say that again.
When I told the emergency room physician it was the worst headache of my life he said, "You will need an MRI, now."