Jane Akre’s Retirement Plan
Please understand while I recap past events and then I will explain the reason for this blog. Five years and four months ago I was implanted with a mesh product that I never understood what it was and how it … Read More
Broken Bladder
posted in: Female Gynecology, Infections & Complications, Mesh Stories, Mesh Surgery, My Mesh Story, Pain Management
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I don’t think there is a single woman on the planet who went into surgery for hysterectomy, prolapse or incontinence who thought to herself “This is high risk and I am taking a chance with my future”, but from my … Read More
Vancomycin Antibiotic Warning
A few days ago I received a frantic phone call from a woman who I have known for a long time. She knew what I had been through because of the antibiotic called Gentamicin and she wanted me to know … Read More
Proving it’s the Mesh
Many of my blogs come about because by writing them, I save time when I hear from women. It may take an hour or so to write one, but it saves me countless of hours later as I can just … Read More
Mother’s Day 2015
Before I post this blog I received the best Mother’s Day gift ever. A phone call from an eighty two year old woman who contacted me some time back because she had been dealing with a lot of pain. The … Read More
Children of Mesh
posted in: Family & Mesh, Mesh Stories, Mesh Surgery, My Mesh Story, UCLA Hospital, Worldwide Mesh
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Sunday May 10th is Mother’s Day in the U.S. and Canada and perhaps in other countries. I know that in Great Britain it is celebrated in March because I was born in England and when I married I had a … Read More
2nd World Mesh Awareness Day
May 1st is the second annual mesh awareness day and to recognize all that mesh injured women have gone through and to raise awareness so that it does not happen to other women for lack of knowledge. Last year I … Read More
Mental Anguish of Mesh
I’m a burden. There I said it. I hate being a burden and would never choose to be one but I have no choice. I have a good mind trapped in a body that is racked with pain on a … Read More
Reflection on My Mesh Removal Surgery
It is still hard for me to believe how long it has been since mesh was placed in my body, but it has now been just over five years. For the first two years and seven months I had a … Read More
Gentamicin Antibiotic Warning
The word is MESH! Every few months I begin searching to see is there any new hope for someone like me but it is always a sad and depressing time and I wind up angry when I once again have … Read More