David Sawyer: Getting Organized and Looking for Help After Mesh Sling Implant
Apr 1st, 2012 | By Jane Akre | Category: Op-Ed
David & Teresa Sawyer
As most of you know Teresa and I have been devastated by this product and still Teresa is looking at a minimum of 1 maybe 2 more surgeries.
We are currently working on starting a nonprofit organization to assist women all over the world whom are suffering have lost their health insurance and have no way of getting this nasty stuff called a bladder sling out of them. More details to come very soon as well as a webpage a way to donate and more.
A wonderful woman has worked her fanny off and organized a fund raiser to help Teresa and I as we have lost sold and gave up almost everything. Our hope is that this fundraiser is very successful and we are able to establish the organization as well as be the first to donate to it. Soon there will be a donation button on a webpage for donations. This will help us to raise donations to fund this pamphlet, fund getting it banned from being used in women, assist with transportation, assist with surgical procedures, and many other needs of the thousands of women affected by this device.
This product is still being put in to innocent unknowing mothers, wives, grandmothers and the results are devastating and even lead to death. In 2010 alone there were 300,000 of these products inserted and to this day there is only 2 doctors in the entire United States removing the product because it is put in with the intent of never coming out and removal can also lead to many, many debilitating results. We also plan to set up an online auction site to help fund these women needs so if anyone or their company can get a product or products donated to auction off it would be greatly appreciated by many women who dream of having a half normal life back without constant agony.
Please look at some of the sites that are on the pamphlet.
I know it all sounds crazy but it is real and no one is helping these women. So if you’re in a position to make a difference we welcome donations ideas suggestions and any other insight you may have. Thank each of you for your time! Each of you is very special to Teresa and I.
Currently we are working with Congressmen and women, reporters, and fundraising. We currently two different talk shows attention being a resource for many women worldwide. We are doing this with many women around the world who are also suffering in agony it’s like the sick are having to fight for themselves no one has listened or offered any help to thousands so as a man I have chosen to speak up not only for my wife but for women worldwide!
Would love to hear each of yours thoughts! Below I posted the links that are on the pamphlet to make it easier for you.
Resources:
David and Teresa Sawyer
419-705-3412www.sawyershandymanservices.com My Handyman site soon will have a tab for Mesh and will have a donate button once established very soon!
http://meshmedicaldevicenewsdesk.com/ A reporter Jane Akre who has made a website and works her tail off to report this mess
http://teapapers.com/bladdersling/ One woman’s blog Linda Kilpatrick who recieves tons of calls from women suffering worldwidehttp://www.facebook.com/groups/142368339207055/ Facebook group of suffering women
http://www.facebook.com/events/210608215706553/ Link to Teresa and I’s Fundraiser
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I hope you both have great success with this venture. I am hoping we can change things one small step at a time. We need the support of many.
Hi!
This is hard for me to talk about. The bladder sling has ruined my life. I had it removed in September, 2011. I needed one or 2 more surgeries but my insurance will not approve it. I am disabled now and cannot work and am in great pain everyday even with medication. I cannot sit or stand for long periods of time and I have bladder incontinence along with other bladder problems from the attempt to reconstruct the uretha during the removal of the sling. I have terrible pelvic pain and also have pieces of the mesh in my thigh/buttocks that causes me great pain with the diificulty to do anything normal. I wrote this very quickly cause sometimes it just discust me. And the way I have been treated by some doctors. I have also had some good doctors although I was unable to keep them because I am now on state medical insurance. I wish out luck and hope I can help!