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Women's Stories
 
Sonya Sue Brown
Imagine having a bad flu virus. Every muscle in your body aches and you’re so exhausted you can barely move. Now imagine feeling like you have a flu virus all the time. Not a pretty picture, is it? This is how people with fibromyalgia describe their condition – like a perpetual flu.
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Karen Raab
For more than five years, Karen Raab’s life revolved around her menstrual cycle. In her early 30s, her periods began increasing in frequency and severity, stretching to 11 days at a time with only three weeks between cycles.
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Sara Skopec
One might think that the home of a family with five children under the age of 11 would be absolute pandemonium, but the Skopec home in Bolivar is anything but. The house couldn’t be more tidy and 10-year-old Caleb and 8-year-old quadruplets Ryan, Kyle, Seth and Kathryn couldn’t be more polite and respectful. However, “calm” didn’t exactly describe Steve and Sara after their first doctor’s appointment for what they thought was going to be their second child in 1996.
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  Kim Huang  
"I had had problems throughout my pregnancy with Alyssa. I started out with high blood pressure, and as the pregnancy progressed, it kept getting higher and higher. We knew there was going to be a problem."
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