Tag archive for ‘focused ultrasound’
Team Work
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. [...]
Fibroid Relief At Last Event in Los Angeles
You’re Invited to join us for a Fibroid Relief At Last event to learn about Uterine Fibroids, treatment options, and one woman’s struggle with fibroids and her journey to health. Speakers will include uterine fibroid experts. This event is open to the public and free of charge. Refreshments will be provided.
The event will be held [...]
Health Reform & Fibroids
Discussions about Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) were not commonplace conversation just over a year ago, but as the Health Care Reform initiative has progressed, it seems that nearly every single day we hear something about CER. Recently, Medical Devices Today published a piece about the amount of NIH Comparative Effectiveness Research funding dollars committed solely [...]
Choices Choices Choices…Yipeeee!!
As promised in the last blog that I posted, in THIS blog, I will list/describe all of the treatment options that are available for women ladened with fibroids. I also promise: 1.To be brief with my descriptions (okay,stop rolling your eyes), 2.To be unbiased in my explanations (this will be as difficult as attending a nudist camp and [...]
“OOOPS!” Sorry
Time to admit the error of my ways!
To quote my darling 17 month old granddaughter whenever any miss-take occurs in her world (ie: dropping goodies up-’n-over the highchair table,) an expressive audibly-adorable reaction punctuates the air…”OOOPS!!”
Well, I say, “OOOPS OOOPS OOOPS!”
I would like to apologize for my behavior regarding my blatant bias and undeniable prejudice [...]
Great Wall Street Journal Article on Fibroid Treatments Today
There is a great focus piece in this mornings Wall Street Journal on uterine fibroids. It’s main focus is on Radiofrequency (RF) ablation, a minimally invasive treatment which ablates fibroids in a manner similar to Focused Ultrasound, yet the author fails in accurately depicting Focused Ultrasound (more to follow with a comment directly to the [...]
A Small Drop in the (Research Funding) Bucket
As a new member of the Fibroid Relief team, I just read an article that announced that The National Institutes of Health (NIH) committed approximately $40 million research dollars in 2009 to comparative effectiveness research involving medical devices.
A Year Of Words-On-’Roids…Fibroids That is!
A year revealed in one liners (taken from each of my weekly postings) is how I wish to culminate this, one of the wordiest-Wendy-years ever! So as we bid adieu to 2009 and anxiously start carving out “our” 2010, I present to you “A Year Of Words-On-Roids…Fibroids That is!” (I have taken one quoted thought [...]
The Night Before F U S
‘Twas the night before FUS, when all thro’ our house,
I, computer searching and a clickin’ my mouse;
My clothes were laid out with the utmost of care,
In hopes that the A.M soon would be here;
My dear husband was nestled all snug in our bed,
While visions of “what if’s?”, danced in my head,
And, me, mamma in her [...]
HIS-story becomes HER-story!
“Remember the ladies!” This quoted from the outspoken Abigail Adam’s as a directive to her husband (and then president) John Adam’s while he was revolutionizing the country, has been spinning in my head for the last week or so. Back then, women did not own property, did not have a vote in any elections and [...]
