A beautiful sunny May day in 1960..

I like most young women looked forward and dreamed of the future and I like them never dreamed that in that not too distant future, my life would forevermore be changed not ~ because of an act of God ~ but because corrupt men did not value the lives of women.

We moved into our home and over the next thirteen years our lives were full.In between the years of giving birth to our three wonderful children,David...Dale and Danette...we were really busy.

My husband worked and I became a domestic engineer.While trying to be the best engineer I knew how to be,I found it involved many feats...taking care of our home...running after three lively children...two cats...one dog...and the fun things I loved to do...

I found time to ride my horse every day...camp in our beautiful smoky mountains...hike the trails...take hundreds of pictures of anything and everything.

In 1971,when I gave birth to our beautiful baby girl.I did what most women at that time decided not to do..I breastfed her...when she was six months old I decided to change to a bottle...and had a problem with the milk drying up.

I had always had benign lumps in my breast and they stayed sore a little more often over the next two years...so when I went into the hospital to have a IDU loop removed and a D&C My Dr suggested I have the tissue removed from my breast.

This was something I would not even consider doing...until he told me that there was a "new product"on the market that they could put where the tissue had once been and ..."you will never even know it is there,it will feel so natural ~ and then there's cancer you will never need to worry you will develop it...and a big bonus is you will always have the breast of a 16 year old..when your eighty...and they are 100% safe..."

I have wondered so many times since..."Where those plastic surgeons trained by the sales rep.to tell women this.."I have heard so many women say almost the same thing...I personally believe they were told to say exactly that. Since we know Dow Corning covered up so many things,I guess we will never know if this was one more thing covered up and hid from the public view.

I made a decision,based upon the trust I had in Dr's (back then they could be trusted at lest I had always beleived so...weren't they like gods?...didn't they protect us?) I would over the next year deeply regret that decison...

I had never been sick,so I expected to be back to my everday life within a few days...

When I awaken from surgery,a nurse was standing over me,asking me to go back to surgery and let the Dr put in larger implants...I was in terrible pain and the answer was a very strong..no way...I stayed in the hospital four days and was released...I saw my surgeon twice after that and he said everything was O.K.

This was the first 30 years of my life~before the implants.In the years to come my life would become a living hell.

I was implanted in November,1973 and six months later,I could not get on my horse...I was sick with a never ending flu..I had over the years thrown PVC's (benign in nature and something most people will have...usually without awareness of them) these became so bad I could not fuction...

I was sore all over and so very,very,tired...My breast had become rock hard,burned and hurt all the time.

I had always had a healthy active sexual relationship with my husband...now even that was not working any longer...I loved him no less,I just was sick most of the time...this continued for another three years and in 1975 we were divorced...

Now not only was my health in shambles...but so were all our lives..

Before the implants I was usually in my Drs office once a year for a checkup.Now,I was seeing a Dr once or twice a month..I was always told they coundn't find anything wrong...but I hurt all over...it took real effort to get up in the mornings...finally a Dr said I had Fibromyositis but it would not get any worse than it already was...little they knew...

I knew I would need to work to supplement,my income...I opened a business and it was a sucessfull one..I had a lot of family support and I am grateful to them.I met and married my present wonderful understanding husband in 1981.

In 1983 I had to stop work completely,I just coundn't work any longer.For the next thirteen years,there was not one month that I didn't see a Dr...In those years,I ask many times if my problems could be the implants?... I was always told "NO"...

My medical problems never end..I have been diagnosed with..Lupus...Diabetes...Interstitial Lung Disease..(which had been diagnosed by one Lung Dr as Silicosis of the lungs another one disagrees...could he own stock in Dow Corning...)

Sarcoidosis (generalized granulomatous disease...this typically involves the lungs in my case it involves the lungs and other organs)sever Peripheral neuropathy...enlarged and fatty liver...sever bleeding disorder...several Gastrointestinal disorders...

Two ANA patterns..Speckled-1:640 and Nuceolar-1:640...both of these stay high all the time...lytic bone lesions...Pneumonia and Pleursy too many times to count and many more abnormal lab test.

I have had a bone morrow biospy with more to come...liver biospy...and was told this week by lung Dr.a lung biospy was needed.

My implants are still in and due to many health problems and a real fear of being put to sleep,I may never be able to have them removed.

I have not had muptiple surgeries,because I refused to have these removed and new ones put in.I refused the offer of a closed capsulatomy.

I beleive that I because of the length of time these have been in my body I am an example of the progression of disease implants cause in the body.

I beleive the manufactors of implants have been allowed by our Goverment and the FDA and lets not forget politics to