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MY STORY- I was a perfectly normal little girl except I always felt very sick.  The doctors said I would grow out it as I got older.  At 13, I made a new friend that got very sick with leukemia. I put together a few baskets of donated goodies, sold raffle tickets and gave the money to my friend to help pay for her cancer treatments.  As I approached 16 I was getting migraines associated with flashing colors and uncontrolled vomiting several times a month and had to go to the emergency room to stop the symptoms. I experienced vertigo, nausea, blackouts and hyperventilation on a weekly basis. Sometimes I was so exhausted that I couldn’t drag myself out of bed in the morning. For my 16th Birthday I put on a benefit concert, raised a bunch of cash money and became a circle of care recipient with the Childrens Hospital of Denver. A few months later I hopped on a bus to Tijuana, Mexico to help out at an orphanage for a while. Later that same year I decided to put on another benefit concert for a battered women’s shelter. I think that is about the time I became addicted. For my 19th birthday I went back to the orphanage in Tijuana to visit! Next, I volunteered at a home for the developmentally disabled, a community garden and for the school providing a program driving drunk kids home to prevent them from driving themselves. Suddenly felt my health spiral out of control to the point that I was barely functioning. The next year I went to doctor after doctor searching for answers. I was told that I was crazy from most of the 30 doctors that I saw that year. I was standing in the middle of a crowd screaming for help but no one could hear me. I decided to give up. I became depressed and suicidal. My mother pushed me to get just one more MRI - another scan of my brain. The doctors were right; it was all in my head, a brain tumor.  The tumor appeared in a scan from my younger days but it was simply overlooked by a radiologist. June 7th, 2012 the Oligoastrocytoma was removed from my dome. Within a matter of weeks I felt better than before the surgery. Less than a month out of surgery I started another fundraiser and discovered crowdrise in the process. Sense discovering an answer to many of my problems. I have began to ponder the way in which many feel the way as I felt -screaming out silent.  I want to give a voice to everything that does not have one of their own.