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Allwise: Shared Wisdom for Women's Health

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I've been a nurse since 1974 and have done just about everything a person can do in this profession. When I was teaching in Schools of Nursing, I told my students that I started climbing the career ladder in a hospital kitchen, serving food to employees. Soon after that experience, I attended an associate degree program in nursing and became a registered nurse. During the subsequent years I finished my bachelors, master and doctoral degrees. Along the way I also stopped and received certification as a women's health and gerontology nurse practitioner. I've worked in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and private homes.

In addition to all this professional experience, I've had my share of personal health problems. When I was 24 years old, I was diagnosed with stage 4 endometriosis that resulted in many surgeries and various treatments. After being told by several physicians that I would never have children, I learned I was pregnant when I was 30 years old, just two days before I was scheduled to have my uterus and both ovaries removed. Things were a little more complicated during the pregnancy because I was a DES child as well as being single and in graduate school! Today, my daughter is 23 years old and a miracle in my life. However, the endometriosis returned just two years after she was born and I eventually had my reproductive organs removed in 1994. This threw me into menopause and I began to experience in just one day, what usually occurs over several years.

I experimented a great deal with various hormones. I've tried every combination as well as most "natural" alternatives. Along the way my breasts were responding to the many hormone changes. After 5 biopsies and at least 10 aspirations, I became convinced that there was something seriously wrong in my right breast. However, all of my tests were negative - even an MRI! I convinced my internist, surgeon and insurance company that I would be better off removing both breasts. The day after this surgery, in 1995, my surgeon called and said "I don't know how you knew... you had atypical hyperplasia in both the lobules and the ducts of the right breast!" Although it is not cancer, it was close enough and it is possible that my actions saved my life. A good friend of mine was not so lucky. She had been diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer and died in 1997. She was 46 years old.