From the Desk of Beth Battaglino, RN, CEO, HealthyWomen
One of the best things about working at HealthyWomen is knowing that the work you’re doing is helping other people — women you don’t know and will probably never meet. But occasionally, you do meet one of them. And that feels amazing.
Our newest team member at HealthyWomen, Caroline Koller, who heads up HealthyWomen’s partnerships and online community engagement, is one of those women. She first found our website as a cancer survivor. In her first days on the job, she made it a point to tell all of our staff that she knows firsthand how important — and needed — our content is. It was affirming to my team and me to hear firsthand how our content has touched Caroline personally, and it helped to further strengthen our commitment to providing resources for women for years to come.
Here is Caroline’s story:
In April 2019, I was working a demanding job, traveling all over Manhattan. I was a healthy young adult. And then suddenly, I was enduring excruciating pain and unexplained bleeding. For months, I couldn’t get answers from healthcare providers, but I had an inner knowing that my problems meant something very serious. In October 2019, I was diagnosed with stage 3c
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