May 14, 2013~ Linda K. is still recovering from surgery to reconstruct her urethra using her own fascia. This followed her mesh removal surgery last year. See her October 2011 MDND profile here. As has been the case for three years, infection continues to be a problem. While she is not a medical professional, Linda K
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April 30, 2013 ~ Linda K. 0f Teapapers talks about life after mesh removal surgery and the importance of potassium and magnesium level monitoring. She is two weeks past a fascial reconstruction at UCLA’s urology department where they used native tissue (her own) to hold up the urethra in place of a synthetic mesh sling
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April 25, 2013~ Once again our prolific patient advocate enlightens and educates women considering traveling across the country to go to University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) to have surgery. This time Linda had reconstruction and the anchoring of her bladder after mesh removal last October. This followup visit is part of the reconstruction that
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April 22, 2013 ~ Our patient advocate Linda K. has just written about her operation at UCLA to have a sling implanted made from her own body muscle. See her Three Part Series here. Often women must return multiple times to have consultation, mesh removal surgery, reconstruction and sometimes a new sling implanted made from
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April 19, 2013~ This essay is written by contributor, Nonie Wideman of British Columbia, who has suffered with mesh injuries for years. As a research and writer, Wideman has been a voice of the community of mesh-injured women. MDND supports more open communication between doctors and their patients who are suffering mesh complications. Thank you
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April 9, 2013 ~ Doctors say their credo is to put patients first. Why then do so many women talk about the conversations they have with their doctors after they start to feel their implanted mesh is causing complications and not providing a cure? Across the board doctors say something like this: “It’s not
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March 18, 2013, by Jane Akre ~ Recently a doctor commented about mesh-injured women by saying “These are angry women.” I was taken aback. You trust your doctor. The doctor sells you on a minimally invasive procedure that will “fix you right up.” Some women were told nothing – no consultation, no discussion on complications,
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MDND (Mesh Medical Device News Desk) and its FB Page have been receiving a lot of questions about which trials are scheduled to follow Linda Gross v. Ethicon, which on Thursday, February 28 resulted in an $11.1 million award to Linda and Jeff Gross. The award includes $7.76 million in punitive damages. See story here.
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December 27, 2012 ~ Our Patient Advocate Linda K. – always at the keyboard even during the busy holiday season- wishes you all the best this time of year. She warns mesh doctors and sales reps are not going away and neither are your mesh symptoms of pain, erosion, nerve damage, painful sex, infection, limited
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December 13, 2012 ~ With so many women being prescribed antibiotics as the first line of defense against mesh injuries, our patient advocate Linda spent some time discussing the effects of antibiotics with the Leaf Lady, Gayle Eversol. Eversol has too many credentials to list here but you can visit her website here. the Leaf
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