Fw: Email change ... seeking funding for implant removal

May 15, 2001

From: " flowerbug1 (by way of ilena rose) " <flowerbug1@...>

Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 11:18 PM

Subject: Email change ... seeking funding for implant removal

> Ilena, As I'm no longer a member of MSN I have had to change my email

> to flowerkat13@.... My old email was flowerbug1msn (DOT) Could you

> share this with the group? Also I want to thank everyone for their

letters

> and prayers. I have yet to find the funding to have my implants removed.

I

> still hold hope that someday, somehow, someway this will happen. But

until

> then I will patiently and keep praying. Thank you, Kathy Beck

(Below is Kathy's original letter for those who didn't see it the first

time.)

I'm writing this in hopes of finding some much needed help. I'm 38

and have had saline implants since 1994 and a little over a month ago I

had one rupture. I started to feel sick just two days before I notice the

one breast shrinking to almost nothing. Since then I have had symptoms

that include shoulder pain to numbness down my arm, chest pains (on a

constant basis), dizziness, confusion, and just feeling like a bad flu

that won't go away. I'm sick all the time. Somedays are bad to some that

are real bad. I have two children, Jonny and that I have been

raising by myself for the past 5 years. I had a good job until just before

this happened. I was transferred and then laid off and lost all my

medical. Then this happens. I am currently living on unemployment and in a

basement apartment with my two children. I have absolutely no financial

means of getting these implants removed. This scares me because I am all

my kids have. And I have who knows what, running through my body making

me sicker and sicker. The doctors tell me it's just saline, but the

doctor's records who performed my surgery (he has since quit his

practice) show about 8 different drugs added to the saline. I'm hoping

that someone reading this may be able to help me. What I need is some kind

of financial help, as I feel I have exhausted all other recourses. Such as

a loan, state help, pleas to many different organizations. University's of

research. I even tried the implant manufacturer, they just wanted me to

replace the implant, which ISN'T even an option in my opinion. So any help

of any kind would be greatly appreciated. Even if it's just a prayer,

sometimes that's all it takes. Thank you all for taking the time to read

this. Kathy

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