This is part of a sponsored collaboration with AstraZeneca and DiMe Media. However, all opinions expressed are my own. Yep, I'm officially five months pregnant and it’s finally becoming real for me (now that I’m not feeling so sick!). I know my baby is inside me at all times, being protected and hugged with my own body, but I do wonder and worry about how I’m going to protect my baby girl once she is out of her safe haven. My doctor assured me that taking care of her will alm

When you are 23 years old you don’t think much about life threatening diseases, so it was a blow to my stomach to get the news that I was diagnosed with stage 2 Papillary Thyroid Cancer. It began with a visit to a clinic to get birth control and led to the physician finding a lump in my throat. Next thing I knew, I found myself in a room ready to get a biopsy hoping it is nothing major and only a sis. About a month after two biopsies were done I get a call that changed my li