Tag archive for ‘hysterectomy’
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 [...]
Patient Advocacy…A Good Thing!
Patient advocacy seems to be the cliched-phrase of the moment. And that is a good thing. We are seeing the new paradigm shift, in the ever-changing health care landscape, towards a more educative hands-on approach in dealing with preventive and ongoing care of OUR (own) health. And that is a good thing.
To focus on fibroids [...]
Testing One Two Three..Testing One Two Three…
The upper chamber of the hour glass is trickling more quickly…and I am actually excited about it! Last week one of my google alerts produced the most magnificent article; adding another peg to the ongoing quest to have ExAblate (FUS, HIFU) covered by insurance. Sadly ExAblate is not YET covered by one’s insurance provider, in-spite [...]
Reflections On (Two) Years Gone By
With, but a few days until my uterus and I celebrate our 2 year HIFU-treatment-anniversary on Nov. 2nd, AND combined with my nod to Halloween (festooned as a blogger with a ginormous heart and exploding head!)…I gotta tell ya, my brain is on f-i-r-e!!
Perplexed beyond measure, the first ignited ember-of-thought regards the issue of time! [...]
Fibroids in the New York Times
An article was published today in the New York Times called “Options for Dealing with Uterine Fibroids”.
“Fibroids are the most common reason women undergo hysterectomies; 300,000 are done each year just to remove them. All told, the cost of treating fibroids exceeds $21 billion a year, and that does not include the price millions of [...]
Education = Empowerment
The single reason for joining FibroidRelief.org as their big-mouth blogger, was to try to end the needless suffering that is foisted upon 80% of the female population. When a women is diagnosed with a fibroid(s), the good news is that 75% of the time she will never even have a single teeny-weeny symptom. Yea!! The [...]
Fibroids in the Daily Mail
“The simple op that can end the monthly agony for millions of women” was featured today (29 September 2009) in a prominent newspaper in the UK, the Daily Mail. The article is a wonderful story about alternative treatments to hysterectomy for fibroids, and about one patient, Catherine, who was able to be treated with one [...]
Statistics Don’t Lie
FACT 1: There is a pronounced racial disparity in infant mortality occurring in the United States of America. African-American babies die more than twice as often as white babies. Preterm births, it appears, is the cause of this large divergence in the death-rate between black and white babies. Researchers believe that the mother’s inflammatory response could [...]
The 25 Percenter Group…A Horrible Sorority!!
Traveling to the beat of a different drummer I have always been part of a “small minority” that forever included a sampling-of-possibilities , belonging to various and sundry cadres, with unusual tags. Example: I’m a long-straight-blond-haired Jewish vegetarian woman ((nursing each of her kids for 3 yrs.!)) happily living ((41 yrs.)) with my ((non-Jewish)) high school sweetheart AND I love [...]
“Ovary Removal Linked to Increased Lung Cancer”
On July 25th, the New York Times published an article called “Risks: Ovary Removal Linked to Increased Lung Cancer”.
The new study, done at the University of Montreal, indicates that there is a detrimental relationship between women having their ovaries removed as part of a hysterectomy, and lung cancer. The reasoning for this appears to be [...]
