“When I was 19 years old, my dad suffered a massive brain aneurysm. At that time, my parents were separated, but not yet divorced. So, I became my dad’s guardian. I had to dissolve his estate. I had to divorce my own parents in court, acting as my dad’s representative. He’s been living in a […]

“I feel like for a long time, I depended on other people for happiness. My parents divorced when I was 18. At that time, I was in a relationship that wasn’t healthy and once that ended, I jumped into another relationship that wasn’t healthy. When I got out of those relationships I was 23. I […]

“When I was in my early 30’s, I was overweight and I was a heavy smoker. One day, I decided I’m going to quit smoking and start running, so I did. The first day I could run about a quarter mile without throwing up. A year later, I ran my first marathon. For 30 years, […]

“In 2011, I started the Eau Claire Bike Cab. Once high school was over, I stopped playing sports. My health went downhill. I turned to drinking because I enjoyed the social aspect of it. It became a lot easier to go out with friends than it was to go for a run. The chemical reinforcement […]

“Growing up, I was in every sport. I played soccer, volleyball and swam. I instantly loved swimming. I ended up swimming in college at the University of La Crosse. When I was younger, I always had sinus infections, but it wasn’t until high school, when I was swimming a lot, that I really noticed it. […]

“We weren’t able to have children, so we adopted. I felt like my body was sending me a message that said, this isn’t what I’m built to do for you. We spent $12,000 to find out that I have unexplained infertility. We did some infertility drugs and other procedures that were there to assist. Finally, […]

“I’ve lived in China for the last two years. I’m a 5th grade teacher at an international boarding school. I’m in Guangzhou, which is only 2 hours from Hong Kong. Hong Kong is amazing. I go hiking there all the time. Next year, I’m hoping to get into the rock climbing group there. I went […]

“I have a family history of health problems. I have a full line of family cancer. If I look back, it was all health issues. It was immune systems that were suppressed and the cancer finally broke out of there and took them. And they couldn’t do much about it. The baseline health wasn’t there. […]

“I didn’t realize how unhealthy I was until I became healthy. I have 4 children. When they were growing up, I didn’t make my health a priority because my kids were always my priority. I was more worried about taking care of them than taking care of myself. I wanted to keep them healthy and […]

“January 9th, 2015 is the day I was diagnosed with cancer. I was 24. I had noticed a lump on my neck, near my collarbone. I went to an ENT. He did a needle biopsy, which came back negative, so he did a full biopsy and called me January 9th and said you have Hodgkin’s […]