Barbara mailto:bdg148@adelphia.netKaren L. Curry

Bless your heart Gigi,

I hope no one minds that I'm writing to them, but I just wanted to say, "You are so right, Gigi!"

This crap is in my lungs as well. I was really sick a few weeks ago and the Dr put me on 3000 mg of Antibiotics a day. I ran pretty high fevers and coughed up more silicone than I can begin to tell you. I saved quite a few samples. They all dried in chunks of crystals. All sparkly and shiny. But when I showed it to the Dr, he asked me at first what that was and when I told him, he said, "Oh, that's just phlegm!" So, I corrected him and told him it was silicone and unless he or anyone else can cough up their phlegm and have it look like this, I will continue to tell these quacks how I have been chemically poisoned. Damn!

I have finally come to the conclusion.....no one wants to know what the long term effects are, because every where I turn, to try and find someone with ethics who will step out and run the proper tests to prove that I'm a walking testimony to the ill effects of migrating silicone. They stick their dick between their legs and run! My Gosh! What a find upstanding community of medical professionals we have today! And I expect them to save my life or at the least give me some quality to my life, while I'm still yet alive? What a joke!

Which by the way! There were a couple of times, when I was trying to cough this goo up, it nearly lodged in my throat, to the point where I couldn't swallow it or cough it up (it's so sticky and gooey) and I was having trouble trying to breath. I won't go into how I was able to dislodge it, but when I told the Dr, he said I must've had an infection in my lungs as well.

My, My, My!

I'm still not felling very well, but a whole lot better than these past two weeks.

And one more thing. They did an endoscopy on me. Found I had an infection in my stomach that they were able to biopsy. Told me the infection was due to some chemical imbalance with my body. But no one will write in my chart or even discuss with me, "Migrating Silicone!!"

These Dr's have made a mockery out of my medical records, my credibility has been destroyed, my family has turned their backs on me with deafening ears and my husband died from the effects of Agent Orange (from when he was in Nam). When my husband was alive, he could put his arms around me and I would feel safe and protected, but now, other than the love and support I've received from you lovely ladies, I've never felt so alone.

I use to be so much in love with life, but now, all I think about is joining my husband. I pray that it will be soon.