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My TriumphRana Kahl, now 43, will never forget the phone call that changed everything. She and her husband Kevin were on a trip to Cabo San Lucas where they decided that when they returned home they were going to slow down and start a family. Kahl had been working around the clock as one of 20 employees in a start-up internet company, and although she loved her job and the people who worked there, it was time to focus on family. Back home, relaxed and tan, Kahl was in the shower when she felt a small lump under her right arm. Her OB/GYN assured her it was probably nothing, but referred her to a breast surgeon, who recommended a biopsy “just to be on the safe side.”
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Tracy Mobley shares her struggles with frontal lobe dementia, a condition similar to Alzheimer’s
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A young woman faces down Basal Cell Carcinoma—the other kind of skin cancer.
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Bret Michaels’ heart condition is more common than you might think. Penelope Wood talks about living with the condition.
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Jana and Tom of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains both have health insurance, but like millions of other Americans the cost of coverage is putting them on the brink of bankruptcy. The couple now worries they are going to lose their home due to mounting healthcare costs.
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