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What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Cam.   As mother day looms, and people go crazy buying flowers and gifts, and cards... I struggle. I ache. My heart cries. I have two beautiful children, and so yes, I am . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Anonymous.  When I got the call that my mother had been rushed to the hospital, suicide was the furthest thing from my mind. Heart Attack? Pulmonary Embolism? Anurism? All far more . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Jen Campisano.  When I say I want you to know what life is like as a young mother with Stage 4 cancer, I don't really mean that. Not in the sense that I really want you to . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Mandi.  When my son was 9 months old I casually gave him a spoonful of scrambled eggs from his big sister’s breakfast plate. He had an anaphylactic reaction and we almost lost him. . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Bailey.  From the moment those two blue lines showed up on that pregnancy test with my first child I knew I was not going to breastfeed. I knew in my heart that it was . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Anjelina.  Our society has labeled me and anyone who is different in some way as “disabled” or having a “disability.” I understand the concept of the words, however I actively . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Jennifer. I was in graduate school for six years. Beginning in 2007 and up until the summer of 2013, I was slaving away over books and articles and papers in an effort to earn my . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Emily McCallister.  My name is Emily McCallister. I am 24 years old. I have lived with fibromyalgia for 10 years. According to mayoclinic.com, fibromyalgia "is a disorder . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Lauren F.  My story starts back in 2009, the year I graduated from high school. I started having many surgeries for several difficult medical issues I was having at the time . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by "Mom."  Testify.I sat on the witness stand in a dingy Hartford courtroom and tried to convey what it meant to love Destiny. How it felt to give my 19 month old child back to her . . .