Dear Ladies of The View
This morning as always I dread checking my emails. Why? Because I know there will be another woman whose life has been cut short because of bladder sling mesh. Somehow I have to find a way to make her feel…
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Living in Mesh Hell
Dear Whoopi, When women write to me directly, they do so because they feel shame and because they cannot find doctors who are willing to admit that mesh is causing their symptoms. They often live in agony for years and…
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It’s about Mesh Whoopi
Dear Whoopi, I love your crazy name and I have always enjoyed watching you in movies and on TV. I just watched you on the Katie Couric Show last night, but a couple of days late because of what I…
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Surviving Mesh The Will to Live
I can’t tell you that I understand what some women have to go through because of mesh, because I don’t. However, I know what they have gone through because they stay in touch and they share with me and others…
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Mesh is a Journey
My daily emails are filled with women who have somehow navigated the world of Google to find this blog. For the first time in perhaps many years they at last have hope because of what they read. Many have followed…
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The Reality of Mesh
There are many times I want to shut down this blog. I want to do so for my own sanity and to start back on the road to normality. But I can’t do it. Why? Because the truth is covered…
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Conversation with Dr. Twiss
Over two years ago when I began this blog, I did not know where to turn and who to turn to help me with my mesh complications. I had run out of money and was abandoned by my doctor to…
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Dear Doctors
When you put a mesh sling into a woman, you do it once. Then we regret it over and over again, year in and year out. When you see a woman in your office, you see only the medical side….
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Running a Mesh Marathon
The sadness that I read every day is so hard to deal with except for the blessings that I hear when a woman tells me she made her appointment with UCLA and has made the first small step to wellness….
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Mesh & The Katie Couric Show
Late this afternoon I watched today’s Katie Couric Show about women who were dying to be beautiful. Told were stories about three different women who had serious complications or died from surgeries that they thought would make them beautiful. Like…
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