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The Dying Mother
PublicLiterature.Org - Read Books Online | September 5th 2008 by Jack Dale
It took a long time For mother to die. Everyone believed She would go first, With dad, The last dirty-old-man, Playing the field Since he loved women. Mother wore out the pages in her Medical encyclopedia To speed things up On the highway Of exotic d read more
Menopause or mental pause....
Can I get a witness? | August 28th 2008 by Calista
Oh brain cells how I miss thee. I used to think that brain cells were some how attached directly to the placenta, as each time I gave birth a large withdrawl was made from the knowledge bank. It was harder and harder to remember things I could recal read more
12 more days
The musings of my tired little brain. | August 7th 2008 by lulu
12 days until surgery. I'm anxious for it.I've had ups and downs. I had bleeding so bad for a while again, that I thought I could be hemorrhaging. I had pain bad enough one day that I stayed home from work. It's just a day by day thing. Some day read more
Yes, I Would Like Whine with My Cheesy Outfits!
Take Root and Write | August 6th 2008 by Noelle Mena
Just so you know, I have a serious side. You'll regularly see me encouraging women to find freedom through surrender the third Thursday of each month here at Take Root, and through the Christian Women Take Root group with the same name. Today though, read more
Victoria Beckham Has Marxist Connection. Victoria Warned Not To H…
Celebrity, Gossip, Entertainment and News | August 6th 2008 by Laura Lily
Victoria Beckham is reportedly descended from a friend of Karl Marx. Hans Mueller, a historian in the city of Heilbronn, has discovered that a German artist named Carl Heinrich Pfaender was a close companion of the communist leader Karl Marx. Hans Mu read more
Hysterectomy: keeping the ovaries keeps the heart healthy
Battling Heart and Stroke | August 5th 2008 by HART (1-800-HART)
Cervical cancer is a cancer that affects the tissue of the cervix, the funnel-shaped organ located between the uterus and the vagina. According to estimates by the National Cancer Institute, about 11,000 new cases of cervical cancer have been diagnos read more
Post Op Appointment
Fragile What!? | July 30th 2008 by FXSmom
I had my post op appointment this morning. It went okay. My normal doctor is on vacation so I was stuck with a guy doctor. I don’t like guy doctors. Growing up with years of sexual abuse does that to a person. I held back my gag reflex read more
The ovary option
Hysterectomy and Female Castration: the Enablers Part III | July 28th 2008 by Nora W. Coffey
There has been a media blitz surrounding recent discussion of the pros and cons of surgical removal of the ovaries during hysterectomy (see Cochrane article below). But the most important issue has yet to be addressed: the uterus should rarely be rem read more
Surgery Update
The musings of my tired little brain. | July 27th 2008 by lulu
*warning - contains some "feminine" issues which may make some squeamish*It's been a while since I've written but I do have some news.Early in June I got my period. Nothing terribly unusual until 2 weeks later when I still hadn't stopped bleeding AN read more
Doctor Called
Fragile What!? | July 26th 2008 by FXSmom
My doc called on Thursday. She gave me the pathology report. For those who aren’t good with medical jargon, a pathology report is the results of the testing they did on the organs that they removed. She said that I had multiple hemorrahag read more
Removing ovaries questionable, says Cochrane Review
iHealthBulletin News | July 21st 2008
HBNS.org - For premenopausal women, the decision of whether to undergo a hysterectomy - removal of the uterus - is a challenging one. To make things more complex, added pressure to decide whether to remove the ovaries can arise - a decision that rese read more
Relief
Fragile What!? | July 18th 2008 by FXSmom
I got a call from the hospital late this morning. The nurses in the OR were checking up on me. After lunch my doctors nurse called to check on me too. The poor nurse has seen me soo much the past couple of years. I think she was just as emoti read more
This can't be good
Rantings and Ramblings | July 14th 2008
According to an article in the Trinidad Express this morning, many women in Trinidad and Tobago may be misdiagnosed with cervical cancer as the Family Planning Association have not been following international guidelines and one technician has been r read more
Well woman check up….
Ivy Tied Up | July 9th 2008
Well it didnt find me well.. Its been pretty hectic these last few days as I’ve felt MAJORLY out of control emotion wise. Emotionally unstable is the correct term for it. My doctors visit on monday put me in a damper that i’m slowly pulli read more
Pregnant man Thomas Beatie gives birth to baby girl
Bad News Day | July 3rd 2008
A US man who was born a woman before undergoing gender reassignment surgery has given birth to a baby girl, US media reported today. Thomas Beatie, who is legally male but decided to keep his female sex organs during chest reconstruction surgery and read more
Parting with an organ can’t be good
Where's the Outrage? | June 27th 2008 by Errington Thompson
Melissa Harris Lacewell is a scholar and friend. I haven’t seen or heard from her in while. She has been out on sick leave. She has penned her first article since since her surgery. Her article is a tribute to her uterus. It is both funny read more
Organizing at work
Army Mom: New Jersey | June 25th 2008 by Charlotte
When I went back to work I got the job of transferring all of the past 3 years worth of store files to a filing cabinet. I had to move them from the many cardboard boxes into the cabinets. This involved a lot of bending until I got the idea to sit read more
Did you know?
South Jersey fun | June 25th 2008 by Charlotte
Did you know that when you go through menopause naturally you need to take replacement estrogen and progesterone but when you go through it surgically you should take estrogen only? I had a hysterectomy at age 27 and have had hormone replacement th read more
Another Day, Another Surgery
Fragile What!? | June 20th 2008 by FXSmom
I will have surgery on July 17 to have my ovaries removed. Not much else to say. read more
Watching and Waiting All Up To a Hysterectomy
How To Avoid Hysterectomy | June 15th 2008 by Dusko Savic
When you have fibroids, there is a phase in which nothing seems to happen. The doctors tell you to “watch and wait” as if something fantastic and wonderful is going happen in the meantime. They don’t give you any therapy, because it read more
Trying to Conceive With a D&C, a Chemo and a Hysterectomy
How To Avoid Hysterectomy | June 13th 2008 by Dusko Savic
At the Imperfect Complainer blog, we find a story of Flicka, a woman who first got pregnant and then lost her baby after a few months. She now attends a doctor and was given the following advice: – to stop doing the D&Cs, which were uncomfo read more
The Best Post on Hysterectomy!?
How To Avoid Hysterectomy | June 10th 2008 by Dusko Savic
Here is the best post on hysterectomy that I’ve seen in a long time of 3+ years that I am involved with this site. Social Bookmarking read more
How To Prepare for Hysterectomy Surgery
How To Avoid Hysterectomy | June 10th 2008 by Dusko Savic
If you have to prepare for hysterectomy, there is plenty of advice on the Internet, and you might even want to invest into a paper book on the subject. In the comment to a post from someone who is in this situation, I have outlined two other possibil read more
IUD and Hysterectomy
How To Avoid Hysterectomy | June 9th 2008 by Dusko Savic
Have you scheduled a hysterectomy because of an ubearable pain in your uterus? If you have an IUD, Intrauterine Device, you might want to think twice over the matter. An Intrauterine Device (IUD) is inserted into the cervix and into the uterus to pre read more
Uterine Artery Embolisation or Hysterectomy For the Treatment of…
How To Avoid Hysterectomy | June 8th 2008 by Dusko Savic
Uterine artery embolization is a relatively non-invasive procedure to stop the blood supply to the existing uterine fibroids in order to eliminate them. It involves a catheter through the artery and lasts for about an hour, but after the procedure, t read more
PMDD Alternative Medicine Therapy
How To Avoid Hysterectomy | June 3rd 2008 by Dusko Savic
PMDD Alternative Medicine Therapy is a combination of alternative therapies that might help with PMDD, Pre Menstrual Dysphoric Depression. Here is an example of how a woman with PMDD actually feels like. PMDD is similar to premenstrual syndrome (PMS) read more
Fight Ovarian Cancer With Motorcycle Ride
How To Avoid Hysterectomy | May 29th 2008 by Dusko Savic
Motorcycle ride aims to fight ovarian cancer is about raising public awareness about ovarian cancer. Two men, Rich Whalen and Dave Welsh, organize ROAR Motorcycle Ride for Ovarian Cancer, Welsh said he lost his wife and mother to ovarian cancer in 20 read more
Hysterectomy - do I or don’t I?
forty-two | May 26th 2008 by Carol Cole-Lewis
I responded to a request this morning from a journalist asking to hear from women who have had a hysterectomy. I had one, so I thought I’d reply: I had been an athletic and physically fit person all my life, with the health of a person in their read more
Gynaecologist perforates patient's colon during op and keeps it s…
The Defiant One | May 18th 2008 by Keith Chircop
Excerpts from maltastar.com:Gynaecologist Dr Astrid Camilleri was earlier this week found guilty of causing debility to a patient and ordered to pay €96,000 after suffering possible puncturing which resulted in a perforation of her colon during a m read more
PMDD and Suicidial Tendencies
How To Avoid Hysterectomy | May 12th 2008 by Dusko Savic
PMDD is the Premenstrual Dysphoric (Depression) Disorder and some 3-5% of women have it. Here is an example of one of the worst cases, in which the woman who has it is troubled by suicidical thoughts in spite of having a wonderful life, as her husban read more
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