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- October 29, 2019 – My 6th Explant Anniversary
  
  Posted at 12:52 am by motherima, on October 31, 2019
  
  🎉CELEBRATING MY 6th EXPLANT ANNIVERSARY (aka Explantaversary) !!! HAPPY EXPLANTAVERSARY TO ME!!!! WAHOO!!!! 🥳🤩🙌👏🙏
  
  I woke up from my explant surgery, October 29, 2013, feeling such a sense of relief that my implants were actually out! Words fail to relate the degree that I felt it. The next thought, milliseconds after, was realizing that I could take a full breath for the first time in years. You don’t realize how heavy implants are until they’re removed. Or, how much they impacted breathing.
  
  Even though I’m in the ‘permanently harmed club’ I felt a sense of celebration upon waking from explant that I’ve continued to feel every single day since then. I didn’t want to die with those freaking things still in me.
  
  Six years after explant I’m no longer impacted by the post traumatic stress I experienced through being treated so horribly by doctors who had as little clue about my implants as I did. I don’t blame them for not knowing what to do, and for not realizing the terrible things going on within my chest wall and systemically from my badly ruptured implants. Working together to make things better moving forward is all I care about. Making things better for those who’ve come after me .. in my community … throughout Canada … and internationally.
  
  This day has become more important to me than my birthday. 🎂
  
  There are so many amazing things about no longer having breast implants. One of the absolute BEST is being able to feel real heart to heart hugs again .. #priceless. 🤗
  
  My heart goes out to all of the women who’ve realized their implants have failed, or feel they’ve got ticking time bombs within them and desperately want their implants removed, but can’t afford it. Or are having trouble finding a surgeon to properly remove their implants. I experienced that desperate ‘caught between a rock and a hard place’ feeling and it was terrible. May you be explanted soon. I will celebrate with you when your day comes!
  
  To anyone considering getting implants please know that NOBODY gets out of having implants unscathed. It’s a matter of degree, what & when. At very least there will be permanent destruction within the breasts and chest wall, and at worst they can ruin your health, potentially irreversibly. May you love yourself enough not to get them. For so many of us, we got that lesson the hard way. May you learn from those of us harmed without having to go down that path personally.
  
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- ‘Breast Implants and the D.I.R.T. Committee’ by author Gail Hamilton
  
  Posted at 3:56 pm by motherima, on October 30, 2019
  
  This is a long-winded ‘Two thumbs up’ recommendation of Gail Hamilton’s book, ‘Breast Implants and the D.I.R.T. Committee’. If you don’t want to read my entire comment you can stop here with me saying I can’t recommend Gail’s book highly enough. 🤗👏
  https://breastimplantsandthedirtcommittee.wordpress.com
  
  The longer version ..
  
  When I found out my Dow Corning silicone gel implants had failed doctors insisted mine were the ‘old ones’ and the ‘new ones’ didn’t have the issues mine did.
  
  The fact is, that for every generation that came before my implants, as each one failed, women were told the exact same thing.
  
  Actual catalogue sales pitch for the implants I had:
  
  The SILASTIC II Mammary Implant. High Performance, in a direct comparison with current competitive ‘low bleed’ products. Superior Low Bleed characteristics and Greatly Enhanced Physical Properties.
  
  Independent testing to be the Superior Implant in the marketplace today! SILASTIC II Mammary Implant, High Performance, represents years of research by Dow Corning, the recognized leader in silicone technology, to produce a ‘State of the Art’ mammary implant. The SILASTIC II Mammary Implant, High Performance, is the best product to meet today’s needs!
  
  * Superior Low Bleed Characteristics
  
  * Greatly Enhanced Physical Properties
  
  * Available only from Dow Corning Wright
  
  * High Performance Medical Grade Silicone Elastomer is available only from Dow Corning Wright.
  
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  THE REALITY:
  
  SILASTIC II implants became the object of an international recall on September 13, 1991. In a class action lawsuit it was revealed that Dow Corning had falsified key fabrication data concerning these implants.
  
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  Fast forward to when doctors were dismissing my implants as the ‘old ones’ .. the ‘new ones’ were already failing just as catastrophically.
  
  The ‘new’ allegedly ‘safe’ implants are actually based on the same 60-70 year old technology as the ‘old’ implants, but some features and the sales pitches have been tweaked. The new tweaks often made the ‘new’ devices even more dangerous than their predecessors. Case in point, BIA-ALCL.
  
  Already, since textured implants have been implicated with BIA-ALCL and Allergan Biocell textured implants have been recalled, new generations of implants with tweaks and new sales pitches are being approved by FDA and implanted in human guinea pigs.
  
  If you’ll pardon my expression, it’s the ‘same shite, different pile’. Same continued experiment since the 60’s, same greed/profit driven ambitions driving the industry. Same ‘hands in pockets’ practices with surgeons, researchers and regulators.
  
  In the Dow days, with the class action lawsuit that resulted in Dow Corning claiming bankruptcy, the women harmed by their implants were largely failed in the Dow settlement (there were other manufacturers involved as well). You can be sure lawyers were paid in spades.
  
  Leaping forward to the present time, there are new lawsuits for other implants. It would be a mistake for contemporary claimants not to learn from the failures and oversights of the Dow class action.
  
  Where I’m going with this ..
  
  Gail Hamilton wrote ‘Breast Implants and the D.I.R.T. Committee’ offering insight into the deep corruption that was the breast implant industry, a parallel that continues to present day. Gail’s book is a ‘must have’ for every library, IMHO. Every time I read her book I marvel at how Gail was able to so brilliantly tie together details of industry corruption, cover-up, and her own personal experience with having Dow Corning silicone breast implants that left her desperately ill. The pages of my personal copy of the book are heavily ‘highlighted’ with different colours, flagging sentences or paragraphs that I want to be able to find easily again. Page after page. Jaw-dropping, staggering. I was angry. I was sad. I was enlightened. I am in awe of Gail’s ability to be researcher, truth teller and story teller (her own story). I highly recommend this book!
  
  Though Breast Implants and the D.I.R.T. Committee is from the 90’s it’s still so relevant today. It’s hard to truly understand the current landscape of the industry without the benefit of this book.
  
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- STUDY WOMEN HARMED .. A MESSAGE TO THE INDUSTRY
  
  Posted at 1:51 am by motherima, on October 13, 2019
  
  BREAST IMPLANTS don’t look like THIS long once placed within us
  
  You put high risk devices in us despite NO LONG TERM SAFETY DATA ... told us they couldn’t make us sick .. THEY DID ..
  
  THEY FAILED leaving many of us PERMANENTLY HARMED
  
  After 60 years you STILL say the LONG TERM AFFECT OF MIGRATED SILICONE IS UNKNOWN …
  
  WE ARE THE LONG TERM DATA. WE CAN PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF THE LONG TERM AFFECTS OF MIGRATED SILICONE.
  
  You deceived us whether wittingly or unwittingly. You failed us. You harmed us …
  
  you referred us to psychiatrists ..
  
  the LEAST YOU CAN DO is FOLLOW US to prevent unnecessary harm to more generations of women! You have an ethical obligation to do so.
  
  WE ARE THE STUDY RESULTS
  
  We represent 40+ years of data ..
  
  ** DON’T PUT MORE GENERATIONS OF WOMEN AT RISK **
  
  It’s regrettable you’ve allowed this to happen, but it would be unforgivable to needlessly & knowingly put more generations of women at risk.
  
  It will take another 20-40 years to collect the data we can provide NOW!
  
  We have silicone in our lymph nodes, lungs, liver, brain, and other vital organs; breasts; muscles; near & distant places. We have silicone granulomas, lesions & masses. We have implant related cancers.
  
  DON’T BURY THE TRUTH OF SILICONE WITH US
  WE deserve to at least provide scientific data that will benefit others. Its the ONLY way to redeem the senseless harm caused to us. OUR suffering cannot count for NOTHING.
  
  The way forward is working together for TRUTH.
  
  To be clear .. this isn’t about blame. It’s about taking responsibility and doing it better as we move forward. It’s about preventing further harm to unwitting women. There can be no path forward in truth if harmed women aren’t included in the conversation and studied.
  
  I’ve heard the excuse that the industry doesn’t like retrospective studies. This isn’t looking back, its looking foward. WHAT’s happening to us NOW and WHAT will happen to us in coming years.
  
  We should be studied for the rest of our lives, and an autopsy done post mortem, with the intention of seeing the impact of migrated silicone within us. Will we be dead in 5 years? Will we live till we’re 90? Will our immune system eventually make peace with the silicone within us? Will we always be in pain? Will we get cancers? It’s no longer acceptable to say the long term impact of migrated silicone is unknown. It’s been 60 years. It’s about time that uncertainty is eliminated. It’s unthinkable to subject generations more women to this experiment while having swept their predecessors under the rug.
  
  Studying women with migrated silicone isn’t subject to speculation, nor is it subjective. It’s straight-forward and can easily prove scientifically the truth of migrated silicone. (Ultrasound, MRI, PET Scan, CAT Scan, Autopsy).
  
  WE ARE CALLING FOR INDUSTRY AND INDEPENDENT RESEARCHERS TO IMMEDIATELY ESTABLISH STUDIES WHICH INCLUDE WOMEN ALREADY HARMED – ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH BIA-ALCL AND MIGRATED SILICONE.
  
  BIA-ALCL / BII / Migrated Silicone #StudyUS
  
  You don’t get to do THIS to us then ignore and abandon us .. you don’t get to ignore THIS to the peril of more generations of women.
  
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Monthly Archives: October 2019

October 29, 2019 – My 6th Explant Anniversary

Posted at 12:52 am by motherima, on October 31, 2019

‘Breast Implants and the D.I.R.T. Committee’ by author Gail Hamilton

Posted at 3:56 pm by motherima, on October 30, 2019

STUDY WOMEN HARMED .. A MESSAGE TO THE INDUSTRY

Posted at 1:51 am by motherima, on October 13, 2019

BREAST IMPLANTS don’t look like THIS long once placed within us

You don’t get to do THIS to us then ignore and abandon us .. you don’t get to ignore THIS to the peril of more generations of women.

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