MS and Implants

[Guest guest]

Becky

Becky has spent the past

ten years of her life

living with implants, devices

she says have diminished

the quality of her life. The

mother of four lives in rural

Michigan on a farm. On good

days, when her health

allows it, she'll tend to her

horses, who she calls her

" babies. " On bad days, she is

forced to do as little as

possible. Becky has Multiple

Sclerosis, a condition she

feels is linked to her first set

of implants she received

ten years ago. In an effort to

improve her appearance,

Becky ended up with silicone gel

implants. Then five

years later, when they ruptured,

her plastic surgeon

convinced her to replace the

silicone-gel implants,

which by then had been banned

for general use due to

safety concerns, with saline

implants made a company

called Mentor. Fearing what she

would look like

without any implants at all,

Becky decided to give the

saline implants a try.

In the first of three excerpts

of a conversation she

had McKie, Becky talks

about why she decided

to have the implants and her

plastic surgeon's

assurance that the saline

implants would work just

fine.

Audio Clips: Becky #1 |

Becky #2 | Becky #3

If anyone is interested in the radio site this came

from in Canada get ahold of me.

s_laliberte_2001@...

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