Blog: Hope for Those in Pain

Aug 31st, 2012 | By Jane Akre | Category: Op-Ed

Because so many women have discovered Dr. Shlomo Raz at UCLA, who is perhaps the best at mesh removal surgery in the world, he is backed up for six months. Many women simply cannot wait. Teapapers blog talks to these women almost every day and write on her blog about those conversations.

“Yesterday morning as I listened to the young woman who’s bladder has been killed because of bladder sling surgery, I felt the weight of the world upon my shoulders. I could not help her other than to listen to her and hear her shaking voice filled with tears. It hurts me to my core which is why I wrote yesterday’s blog.

“Today is a new day. Today I have hope for some of the women who live in pain.”

Read more here:

http://teapapers.com/bladdersling/2012/08/

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