Let's start a Big Sister Network

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WE have women from all over the country who have been through the process of

explant.

Some may be in the same town as a woman going through the process of looking for

doctors; some may be in the town the woman wants to travel to to meet with the

doctor.

When I went to Atlanta the first time, I went by myself and felt very lost.

I so desperately wished I had someone to talk to, or go with me to the doctor

and help

advocate for me, or someone with whom I could stay during my explant. As it

turned out,

I did not have surgery that trip and when I went back my husband went with me.

Even so,

it would have been helpful to have a contact, a big sister, to bounce things off

of,

encourage me etc.

I would love to establish a database of women who would volunteer their time

and, in

some cases, their home for women seeing doctors in their area. With such a

database, we

could 'match up' women.

I would volunteer to start such a database. I would volunteer to be a 'big

sister' contact in

South Florida, for example. I would offer my home for someone to stay if they

were seeing

Dr. Vinas, for example, or a doctor in Miami or Palm Beach. I would go with the

woman to

the doctor as support and to help advocate for her. We could have a check list,

where

women could check off what they would be willing to do: telephone calls, take a

woman to

the doctor and help advocate, open her home to a woman during her stay...etc.

SOme

women may want to do one but not another.

This database could be a joint effort between forums - Saline Support,

Explantation.com,

and Implant Info Net, in particular. I would be willing to design and maintain

such a

database. We need to unify our efforts - there is strength in cooperation

between groups.

When a woman is going to, say, Denver, she can look at the Database to see if a

" Big

Sister " is listed in the Denver area. We have women from all over the country,

and this

would be a stellar way of networking and offering our help to women who are

nervous,

anxious, sometimes a little too sick or nervous to ask the right questions,

etc. THe Big

Sister can help with that, offer her experience, and support.

This is a small price to pay for the help we have been given from those before

us. Would

you be interested in such a Network?

I sure would!!

Please give me your feedback on this idea...