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My Fascia Sling Surgery Part Thirteen

Author: Linda June 2, 2013 0 Comments

I would never have believed I would be writing so many parts to this surgery, considering I sailed through mesh removal last October. But that is the nature of very serious infections and doctors who would not do the right…
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Infections & Complications, Mesh Surgery, My Mesh Story

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Mesh A Young Woman’s Story

Author: Linda November 17, 2012 2 Comments

I and the other women who try daily to help women through mesh complications are always shocked and horrified when young women’s lives are cut short by this issue. However, even with their daily pain they have such great resolve…
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Mesh Stories

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Mesh Removal & No Money

Author: Linda November 15, 2012 19 Comments

There are so many days when I want to scream at the world “Why are women being injured and no one cares enough to hear our pleas”. Remember when doctors ignored those who said “I feel ill and cannot get…
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Financial Cost & Paying the Price, UCLA Hospital

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Mesh & No Insurance

Author: Linda November 10, 2012 1 Comment

Yesterday I received a note from a woman who has been suffering with bladder sling complications for a number of years. The note stated that she had had to cancel her upcoming surgery with Dr. Raz because she no longer…
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Financial Cost & Paying the Price

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Mesh Removal & Healing

Author: Linda October 21, 2012 0 Comments

My journey through healing. I woke up early this morning thinking about a conversation I had yesterday with a feisty lady who lives in Tennessee. Helen first contacted me after she had had a sling put in after a hysterectomy…
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Mesh Stories

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Mesh Removal & the Translabial Ultrasound

Author: Linda September 21, 2012 32 Comments

Ladies in the U.S.A. Please take note and perhaps you can start fighting for better care all over our country. We are supposed to have the best medical care in the world, but we are hardly better off than other…
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Surgical Procedures, UCLA Hospital

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Mesh a Slow Painful Death

Author: Linda May 8, 2012 33 Comments

I sit here this morning my mind in a turmoil as I ask myself this question. “What can I do to help this woman?” The answer is “I don’t know”. And yet, I cannot sit here and do nothing at…
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Mesh Stories

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Mesh & A River Of Tears

Author: Linda February 11, 2012 10 Comments

This past week has been exceptionally difficult. As usual these days, ten to twelve women a week make contact with me to try to find medical help to remove the mesh form their bodies. The contacts that thrill me the…
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Mesh Stories

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Mesh & My Anger

Author: Linda August 27, 2011 4 Comments

At five this morning I was awoken by pain in my right side. I struggled out of bed hanging on to something when I placed my right leg on the floor. Very slowly I let the inevitable agonizing pain penetrate…
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My Mesh Story

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What to do now

Author: Linda January 6, 2011 1 Comment

I am at the start of a New Year, living in frustration and pain. I am a victim of the richest country in the world’s health crisis. I have no health care and I have been injured by a product…
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My Mesh Story

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