~ Faith, Perseverance, & Forgiveness Saved my life ~

Praising God for the life I have and learning to love myself no matter what~ Quick update at my 13.5 month since having the moldy ruptured right breast implant and staph infected/moldy left breast implant removed.

      This style blog has you reading most recent entry, so for the whole story scroll down and look at older post prompter to take you back to when I started. 

Left implant still intact after removal from Dr. Kolb in Atlanta, GA ~ The Left implant had staph infection and mold present; imagine how much was in the right one that ruptured inside of me as you can see on the mammograms the left appeared normal and the right one has all the stuff growing on film. The doctors say it should have killed me~ I give God the glory to allow me to share my story~ 

Do these "look" normal to you?

The left "looks" normal but as we saw in the photo with it outside of my body, it had mold present.

Modeling days 1995-2010

2010 my weight went up and down 10-15 and my vision started getting strange.

PICC line for IV antibiotic treatments after surgery.

 I use a chiropractor who seems a lot like the doctor on the  TV show "House".  His name is Dr.Sean Price in FWB, FL at The Chirospa off of Beal Pkwy. He looks at my whole being: symptoms, blood work, allergies to food and products which is helping to get my body to detox so we can see if I truly have these autoimmune illnesses or if my body is just flushing all the toxins out still.  
Remember if you have breast implants NO MAMMOGRAMS; ultrasound 1st if it looks suspicious then an MRI, so no squooshing of the implant~!~

 

10 months post op

Update 10 months post op~ If I have been able to save 1 persons life by sharing my story then I am blessed~!~
 In July/August I was also diagnosed with Lupus in addition to the Rheumatoid Arthritis, Hashimotos Thyroiditis, Raynards Syndrome, Fibromyalgia and Silicone Sickness (the shell of all implants are made from silicone, even though filled with saline). 
I am the 1st generation in my family for all of these illnesses~
         I have been told that several friends who shared my story with their friends, family and/or people who know me and saw my mammograms and witnessed how sick I became to the point I almost lost my life; well, they have either taken their implants out, replaced them because it had been longer than 10 years or decided not to get them at all. 
     I believe I am alive to spread the word not only about this but how the government system fails those who need them when this type of event comes. I am still waiting to get disability since I am unable to work with how often I flare up with my autoimmune diseases; when 1 flares, they all flare~but, I do try to act normal even though my body is screaming on the inside. (People who suffer from Autoimmune Diseases, may look normal on the outside; so do not judge what you do not know)~!~
Please feel free to keep sharing my story, maybe it can go viral to save a life~

Short Recap~ I was told my mammos were normal, what do you think?

 Please share my blog~Plastic Surgeons, Radiologist and Mammo Techs need to know that Implants patients should NOT get mammos and if the implant looks strange it is their Obligation to tell the patient~!~ The whole blog explains more in detail and more pictures, but some just want the overview and how I almost died when the rt implant ruptured inside me~

top left picture; appears to be a normal left implant. Middle and lower left pictures; different years as growth of something inside rt implant. lower rt picture: moldy left implant after ex-plant, the right ruptured and all the mold went inside of me and nearly killed me.         ~I survived~
The left implant has mold and we do not see it on the films; imagine how much was in the right implant to catch it growing all these years~ YIKES~ I believe god has a bigger plan for my life
The left implant still has approximately 80% percent of the saline fluid plus mold and staph and the right implant is completely ruptured with only a brown discoloring of moldy particles left.
Women with saline implants also get silicone illness because ALL implants outer shell are made of silicone. In my blog I list more info along with all my symptoms and diagnosis; this is why I want to help other women make informed decisions; I am not against implants as long as the surgeon admits the downfalls to them and the replacement is needed ever 10 yrs.  I tried to make each section short.
Start at the very bottom to see the 1st blog and scroll up~

I was told "implants last forever in 1998, but they need to be changed every 8-12 yrs~

                   Implants are not a 1 time surgery or financial investment
    If you have implants now, did your surgeon tell you they need to be exchanged for new ones every 8-12 years? I used to be a plastic surgeon surgical tech in the 1990's and I never knew this information.  We believed implants were forever. Apparently that has changed but not all surgeons explain this to their patients. And since the media rarely covers this topic, we the general public do not know this. This is why I am trying to create a buzz so the media will pick up the story and make it a headliner and not a small story and let it fade away.

                                                             Do the math...
Age 25 spend $3500-4000 for implants and surgery
Age 35 same a little less since exchanging $3000-3500
Age 45 cost of implants goes up and scar tissue makes it harder, $3800-4500 
Age 55 $4000-4500
Age 65 $4500-4700 or you have them removed and need a lift too additional $1500-2000
 That's 5-7  breast surgeries in your lifetime & approx $20,000-$30,000                           
   Dr. Susan Kolb and her partner Dr. Gordon of Plastikos in Atl, GA explain this to their patients and you sign a form that you are aware of this. Dr. Melmed in Dallas, TX was just featured on a Christian talk show  with a patient who is ill with similar issues as me. I was happy that I have found so many written articles on this subject, but again it is not put in the news. Please post and share this info.
   

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OfBt7DYRqk 

 Dr Kolb on Saline Implants

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9g80LuU8d0

Dr Kolb on Silicone Implants 

 

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/11/18/dr-kolb-discusses-breast-implants.aspx

http://www.knowthecause.com/index.php/contributor-blog/31-as-seen-on-the-show/2195-after-the-show-breast-implants    Dr. Melmed on Christian Talk Show~

http://plasticsurgery.about.com/od/breastsurgery/a/Are-Breast-Implants-Causing-Cancer.htm

Implants in the news~

                                        Conspiracy Theroy
        In my quest to get more information about implants out to women, I noticed that breast implants do not get the attention that is needed. I have to wonder if the Plastic surgery industry and the implant manufacturers have a conspiracy to keep the facts hushed.
                        
                      SYMPTOMS not all at once a few start and then more and more, mine are highlighted

Body aches (joints, muscle, and sinus) Headaches Allergies Allergic reactions to foods Anxiety Appetite swings Bleeding ear Bleeding gums Body temperature regulation problems Shortness of breath Bronchitis Charley horses Chills High cholesterol Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Abnormal circulation Cognitive problems—difficulty assimilating new information; difficulty finding words; difficulty focusing; difficulty thinking or accomplishing other executive functions such as organizing and planning; difficulty with math or handling numbers; difficulty with short-term memory; short-term memory loss Constipation Coughing Abdominal cramping Delayed recovery from normal activity Depression Diarrhea Dizziness Endometriosis Burning, red, or watery eyes Fatigue Fever Fibromyalgia Leaky Gut Hypoperfusion (decreased blood flow through an organ) Inflammation Insomnia Insulin resistance Interstitial Cystitis Irritable Bowel Syndrome Laryngitis Light sensitivity Lyme Disease Metallic taste in mouth Migraines Mood swings Morning stiffness Muscle cramps, jerks, or twitches Nausea Numbness in the arms, legs, feet, or hands Pain—abdominal, arm, back, chest, chronic, cycles, feet, growing, hip, joints, leg, lungs, mistaking cold and hot, sinus, stabbing, vulvar Rashes Raynaud's Phenomenon Respiratory problems Rosacea Seizures Sensitivity to bright light Static shocks Sinus congestion Sinus infection Skin sensitivity Sleep apnea Sleep disturbance Stiffness Sweating Swelling Sore throat Tingling Burning tongue Tremors Frequent urination Vertigo Blurred vision Weakness Weight gain Weight loss Wheezing

What I know now~No Mammograms~!~

                                                       Do you have implants? 
                                      Have you been sent for a mammogram? 
         I was sent for a baseline mammograms(mammos) after my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001. I can remember when I had worked as a scrub tech for a plastic surgeon in the 90's the surgeon I worked for went to a conference and said there was a discussion on should women with implants have mammos? My co-worker and I waited for the answer, but even he could not give a definitive YES or NO.  As I was sent for my first mammo, I thought back to that conversation and I asked the tech, "Since I have implants should I be getting a mammo?  She assured me they do mammos on implant patients all the time and it is fine. She even joked with me and said, I haven't ruptured one yet. So, I giggled and trusted what she told me, after all this is her job and she is a licensed mammo tech.  I  also thought to myself, the radiologist certainly would not want to rupture an implant. So, I consented
                       I wish I would have known then, what I know now~!~
      My surgeon, Dr. Susan Kolb in Atlanta, GA is an expert in implant sickness and reconstructing the breast after implants.  SHE WAS SICK FROM BREAST IMPLANTS TOO~!~ Which is what helped to become an expert in Biotoxin illness, Silicone Dysfunction Syndrome, Fibromyalgia and more. She found the answers as to why this happens to women with implants. There is way too much info to put here so I will add some sites to the comment section.
        Dr. Kolb and approximately 30 other Plastic Surgeons that I can reference all agree that women with implants should not get a mammogram. Instead they should have an ultrasound of their breast  and if something looks suspicious then a MRI.. NOT a mammogram. There are probably hundreds of more doctors who agree with this statement, but my implant support group and I have researched the ones who ex-plant the implants including the capsule along with scar tissue to help start the process of recovering. These doctors also agree these very implants are causing all the illnesses that women with implants suffer from. (symptoms we women and doctors do not piece together until it is too late, that topic is next :see next blog, coming soon).
       Just getting the implants out is not all that is involved. The longer the implants are in the more damage they cause. Since mine had mold in them and one ruptured inside of me, my whole body has mold and parasite causing all kinds of damage and guess what ? They are so small you can not see them until there are way toooooooo many. Here is why I hold the radiology team and the facility where I had my mammos done for so long responsible for not telling me what they saw.

 that cloudy swirl.....mold organisms swimming  Do you think the Radiologist and the facility I went to all these years should be accountable for not disclosing?          PLEASE Share my blog and comment~

 cloudy film of mold spores I wonder how many millions it takes to show up on film?The dots are the ones settling on the implant and you can see the weakened silicone shell breaking down





I was never shown my mammograms after all the years I was sent for them. I had to wait on a written report with only words. ALL of the mammo reports say NORMAL. Had I seen these pictures, I would have searched for answers.   Below is the implants after they came out of me. The right implant  shows a bronze colored fluid(yes the stains of the mold that leaked into my body) the left one on mammo did not have enough mold to see on film, but look at it. Brown, black and white molds. yuck~

Wow~5 months post ex-plant and my blood still shows...

       I know I am still sharing everything that I have been through, but I want to share what my blood shows off of 1 drop this weekend. I went to one of our local health food stores in Niceville, FL, The Staff of Life. They were able to go over the findings on a screen attached to their microscope and show me what my blood looks like. I knew I had swelled back up after losing weight, so I was concerned that something was wrong again. Sure enough, I saw candidiasis, inflammation, some dead red blood cells, a lot of white blood cells eating up the yucky stuff, low iron, low B12, some damaged cells, I saw a lot of healthy red blood cells too, my protein is not digesting properly and oh yay, PARASITES....that was not fun to see. I wish I would have known more about this 1 drop of blood showing all of this about 3 years ago before having unnecessary procedures and surgeries. Well, heck I wish the radiologist would have told me what they had seen all these years on my mammograms, that would have saved me a ton~!~

So, now I am doing another detox but this time I have to stop feeding the PARASITES their favorite foods; sugar of any form, even fruit is off limits, no wheat/breads, no dairy, no peanuts and no mushrooms. So, meat, potatoes and rice, but have to limit potatoes and rice. I can eat dark green veggies too.

What doesn't kill me only makes me stronger ~!~

1st generation in my family for these illnesses~

Sept 27, 2013 into Oct 2-3, I get worse and worse & aalllllllll the crazy symptoms come back with a vengeance, lethargic, strangulation feeling x's 10, can't speak and when I tried it is a super strange froggy toad sound with lots of pain, the thought of speak puts me in excruciating pain, the strain my body feels makes a permanent crease in the brow furrow, tremors, body aches and pains like the flu, fingers/toes split open and bleed, the sore on my foot comes back and breaks open, I bruise easily, I look swollen with lesions on my face, I am so depressed at how I look and feel, I swell up, yet because I am a positive outgoing person I put on my make up and pretend I am happy. but I feel like dying.....I feel like a freak, I feel ugly,  I documented my low body temp even though I was sweating as if I had a fever. I took pictures and videos of me taking my temps, the red face, neck, and lesions, No doctor has been able to regulate me since, even with the proper meds. 

April 2011 Eye doctor tells me the blurry vision is from Grave's Disease-1st I have ever been told this. 10-15lb weight gain(I thought I was hyper not hypo, so why the weight gain)?
May 2011 I am told I need my gallbladder removed but 1st they have to ablade(kill) my thryroid. I kindly decline and tell the doctor she is wrong, at which points she states she wants me to see a therapist.
Then I am referred to an Endocrinologist who tells me "you take pill to kill thyroid then you take thyroid medicine rest of your life, we do this over 50 yrs now". UUUHHHHH NOOOOO!
June 2011 I get a new GP doc and he explains the situation to me better, and he is going off the diagnosis from what my last doctor said and my blood test results which include elevated cholesterol, liver enzymes, hyper thyroid and poor hormone function.
Aug. 2011 I give in and even though I still believe this is wrong, I give in because most people think I am the one who is wrong.
Nov 2011 Thyroid is not dead but in normal state so GB is removed
Dec 2011 thyroid dies while on vacation.
Jan 2012 I start hypo medication
Feb 2012 still feel ill, run down and now vocal issue start to manifest, blurred vision worsens, weight gain continues.
March 2012 no relief and feeling much worse, the thyroid med is not helping at all.
April 2011-June 2012 I am getting sicker and my weight continues to go up, my voice is hurting to try to speak, my voals sound awful, I am getting depressed, my body hurts all over, I am so tired of not sleeping.
June 2012 Hashitoxcosis/hashimotos thyroiditis diagnosed/ turns into Hashimotos Thyroiditis once the thyroid died.
Sept 2012 New endocrinologist tells me I am very sick and suspects i will be in a coma fighting for my life in approx 2 weeks.
Feb2013-March 2013 Mayo Clinic,they think he thyroid is fine,  they can not explain my blood test being abnormal on several things, so they send me to Liver transplant, at first the liver team is telling my mother in love and me why I need a transplant. I am shocked and tell them no this is not right; after a lot of testing the Liver team agrees that I do not need a transplant. But they can not explain why I am so sick. 
April-Sept 2013 more doctors, more testing, no vocals, just been hiding from the world from the lesions on my face, the weight gain, my inability to think straight, muscle cramps, tremors, insomnia and so much more.

Sept 27, 2013..."OHHHHH NOOOOO I SPRUNG A LEAK".

Sept 30, 2013 FWBMC Mammo tech, " yes, it ruptured, but we saw a leak 2 yrs ago". WHAT??? This is the 1st I am told of any issue with my implants; I go look at 2011 written report; it has NORMAL written on the paper. 

Does these look NORMAL?

 The left implant for the most part is what an intact implant looks like. The right implant clearly has something wrong.
Oct 2013  During Dr. Kolbs exam and my surgery so adds Fibromyalgia, Mastodyna, Silicone Immune Dysfunction,  

after surgery, (I tend to smile when a camera is around) Chronic Staph and mold infection, Fibrocystic tissue illness to my list of issues.  







Nov. 2013 ER visit due to infection staying in my body and

swelling then I am sent to the infectious disease doctor to start IV antibiotics with a PICC line in since the oral meds are not clearing up my infection.at this time I was diagnosed with Raynards Syndrome. 

March 19, 2014 I have just been confirmed to have Rhuematoid Arthritis. 1st generation in my family for all of these.

Do these look Normal to you??

                              What makes my story so different from most of the others? 
 Mine was caught on mammogram films for years and I was never told. In fact my written reports from my local medical facility all say NORMAL~ SO, my other doctors never looked at my breast as being the problem, even though I complained of breast pain consistently and one breast enlarging and going back to normal on and off over several years.  
                                              ~Fast forward to 2013~
Fri, Sept 27, 2013~ "OHHHH NOOOOO, I think I sprung a leak"!

I arrived to my mammo appt Mon Sept 30, 2013 and there are 2 techs in the room.  I told them the possibility of a leak but it is hard to tell because I had gained 60lbs which has given me more breast tissue. One tech stayed behind the computer and the other tech did my mammo. She took the rt breast 1st and stated "yep you have a leak, but we saw that 2 yrs ago". WHAT?? This was the first time I had heard of any issue with my breast implants in the 9-10 yrs of mammograms at this facility. On Oct. 2, 2013 I went and ask for all my films so I could view, since I had never seen my own films before. Here are a few views. I now have my mammograms from 2005-present and an MRI 2011 of my liver/gallbladder that happen to show approx 25 views of the breast prior to the removal of my gallbladder after they abladed my thyroid.

Left Breast implant appears normal in all the mammos. I do not see dots inside the implants as you will see on the right implant.

Can you see the dots forming inside the implant?

this one is pretty obvious~

Left implant appears normal on all views, a little saline fluid has leaked over time.