Women's Health: Personal Stories

  • A Hunger for Something More

    11/14/06, Capessa

    Diet Coke, peanut butter and jelly, and diet pills were Gail's introduction to an eating disorder. Twenty years later, after two friends pointed her problem out to her, she started down a road to recovery and found a path to advocacy.

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  • Making the Most of Menopause

    11/14/06, Capessa

    Instead of slowing down when she hit the half-century mark, Missy started singing the aging blues to other women feeling her pain. Now her 5-woman, 3-man cabaret band, The Bats, is giving women in their Golden Years something to laugh about.

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  • My Hysterectomy: A Healing Cut

    11/14/06, Capessa

    Debra was thrilled that menopause meant the end of her monthly cycle, but she didn't know she had to go through something called perimenopause first. After four years of letting nature run its course, she had a hysterectomy, and got her life back.

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  • Getting a Grip on Domestic Abuse

    11/14/06, Capessa

    An episode of Oprah during a quick at-home lunch break introduced Yolantha to a thing called psychological abuse. Just days later, she experienced first-hand how it can turn into physical abuse when her husband wrapped his hands around her neck.

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  • Guts and Glory: Beating Uterine Cancer

    02/14/07, Capessa

    An unusual period can be more than just uncomfortable. For Juana, it meant stage one uterine cancer and a chance to see what she was made of.

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