My name is Bonnie. After years of suffering and feeling so alone in
this pain, I have found wonderful support through this website. I just
found the site about two months ago. I have corresponded with names on
the quilt and found the most wonderful people in the world. Through the
help of Dr. Wiseman, I was able to find the doctors in my area that use
barriers and have expertise with the harmonic scalpel. I was also able
to find a great friend, Kathy Lacy, who's title I only know as
"girlfriend". But she is an EXPERT girlfriend! I thought (by my own
assumption) she was leading this big local support group in Houston, but
found her support extends mostly to those across the net and it seems we
two are the "local" support group! Actually, Kat could do it all by
herself as she is a one-woman-band. She counseled me on the phone for
weeks, drove me to my appt. with Dr. Garza, met me in the surgery
center, then put me up like a puppy in a room at her house, insisting
constantly that I "stay" and "lay down". That was no puppy chow she fed
me though. Now I am home and feeling better every day. And one thing
that I have now, that I didn't have through my other surgeries, is
company and support. I have the company of each and every person that
travels through this web-site and I have at least one local person that
understands my daily trials completely. I know that together we can
beat this and that's more than I ever had before. Let's see if the
healing process takes a different turn this time. I believe it will.