This past week I had the distinct pleasure and honor to speak with one of the finest people I have ever met…who, just so happens, is also my Focused Ultrasound radiologist/doctor. After our conversation, I just sat in my chair daydreaming. My thoughts took me to the first time that Dr. LeBlang and I met. I began to compare her brilliance (both personally and intellectually) with that of the 6 or 7 other doctors that didn’t quite measure up! In fact they were down-right awful, and I don’t mean this in the medical-intelligent sense. No, I am talking about the humane-sense!

Every single doctor that I consulted, regarding my fibroid, wanted to give me a hysterectomy. Every single one. Prior to my consults with these doctors, I was excited about the prospects of talking about alternative approaches to treating this giant fibroid-invader. And by alternative, I simply mean, something other than the dreaded hysterectomy! But that was my agenda, not theirs! They, each ‘n every one, wanted to perform the hysterectomy.

Another very curious aspect of my confabs with these doctors, was that not one of the 7 doctors ever looked me in the eyes. Not one! They had a pad before them and were constantly scribbling…for sure, not listening to ME! I really wanted to scream that “I am more than my condition! I am more than just my uterus!!”  But they could only see their agenda…hysterectomy! I did not exist!

With each new doctor I found myself more frustrated than the last…almost speed-talking, so as  to get out all of the information that I wished to discuss. Most scurried me along, as if I was wasting THEIR  time with MY needs! No one was listening to me.

Two doctors actually planted the “scare-seed” in me, and flat out said (without any clinical testing) that it is cancer. Cancer!! I knew it wasn’t cancer ( I lived with it for so long,) but they had the heartless-bed-side-manner to fill the air and my soul with this very debilitating poisoned-thought. They used this tactic to scare me into the operating room…but I stood fast to my core beliefs and held tight to my “hope” that I could find a doctor that would listen to me.

From the very first meeting with Dr. LeBlang, a sense of comfort came over me. She warmly greeted me, and before I knew it, we had an hours worth of information exchange. I finally found a doctor, a coach, that would/could get me to the finish line with my uterus (and my sanity) intact. Dr. LeBlang worked with me, not against me as the previous doctors had done. Dr. LeBlang  happily guided me through my questions and concerns, and in those months of  back and forth discussions, she never once pressured me into anything. She allowed me to conclude for myself (with much thoughtfulness) and together as a team, we got the “job” done.

My purpose in this blog, is simply to encourage you to find a doctor;  that will guide you, that will listen to you, that  will share ALL the information with you, that will act as your coach, that will happily be on YOUR TEAM! Team work is the the sure way to “beat” this.

The worth of any lifetime is measured in kindness.♥