Guest guest Posted April 14, 2005 Report Share Posted April 14, 2005 From Ilena - Excellent interview! Thanks Shari! > Woman says breast implants nearly killed her > an ABC Action News report 04/13/05 > > > http://www.tampabaylive.com/stories/2005/04/050413implants.shtml > > EXCERPTS: > > TAMPA - Wednesday, a second company tried to > persuade a Food and Drug Administration advisory > panel to lift a ban on some silicone gel breast > implants. > \ > > A local woman who says she got implants made by > Mentor in 1996 claims they made her and her son > sick. She was profiled in an MTV documentary on > plastic surgery, and she's following these FDA > hearings closely. > > Shari Halverson says young women need more > information before they make the decision to get > breast implants, and she thinks both silicone and > saline implants should be a thing of the past. > > " It's horribly devastated my life. It's ruined my > life, as far as I'm concerned, " she stated. > > Ever since getting breast implants in 1996, Shari > says a host of debilitating medical problems have > made her so sick, she can barely play with her > 3-year-old son Logan. > > " I received Mentor textured implants in 1996. The > shells are made out of silicone, " she explained. > > Soon, she said, her breasts started hardening. > > > > Shari says her implants were leaky and contaminated. > > " It's like your body fighting off a foreign object > by forming scar tissue around it, to where they end > up looking like baseballs almost. And it's very > painful, " she continued. > > Shari described a series of surgeries to fix them > before finally getting a doctor to take them out. By > then, she said, she was battling numerous health > problems. > > " When I had the implants removed, I sent them to a > biochemist, " she explained. " He determined that both > of my implants were leaking. He found staph, he > found black mold. " > > Shari believes the breast implants have affected her > son as well. > > " I breast-fed him for almost nine months, " she > continued. " He has these weird rashes that no one > can explain. He had several bouts of horrible hives, > chronic infections, chronic fevers. He would spike a > fever in 30 minutes up to 106, " she said. > > Shari's worst fear, though, was that she would not > survive the ordeal to be there for her son. > > " I wanted him to be at least old enough so that, if > I died from something, that he would remember who I > was, " she sobbed in the MTV documentary. > > Again, Shari had saline implants, but she said the > shell was made of silicone. She never filed a > lawsuit against mentor so they never had a chance to > respond to her allegations. > > > ~~~ > > www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/Shari.htm > Meet Shari and see her on MTV tonite! > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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