At Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Bonnie wrote:
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>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.
-- Suze