Susan Wiese continues to compete in the Special Olympics despite here series of surgeries to control a racing heart, breast cancer, removal of her right breast, and multiple rehabilitation's. Then in May, her back began to hurt. She found out she had endometriosis. She had a hysterectomy. She felt good enough to compete in the State Games. She qualified for Nationals in softball throw, the 50-meter walk and the 100-meter walk. And then last Monday, her heart went haywire yet again.
"I felt angels," she says, "like somebody was sitting on my shoulder the whole time going, 'We can do this. We can get through this. We're going to be in Lincoln and there's nothing going to stop us.'"
The medicine that's suppose to bring down her racing heart hadn't work. But Tuesday, her heart stopped racing - all on its own. Saturday afternoon, her sister drove her to Lincoln to join Team Nebraska. Doctors say she can compete, that what she has is not life-threatening at this point. Sunday afternoon, with a lump in her throat, she sat with Team Nebraska at the Bob Devaney Sports Center during the opening ceremony. She doesn't care if she wins this week.
"To me, personally," she says, "making it to the opening ceremony is the finish line."
Read the entire story at http://journalstar.com/special-section/special-olympics/games/article_5414771c-92c7-11df-9882-001cc4c03286.html
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DERAILED Memoirs of a Botched Hysterectomy - Hysterectomy to Remove Fibroids and Cyst - Really was ENDOMETRIOSIS! How does an outwardly healthy 47-year old woman's "routine hysterectomy" become an 18-day ordeal spanning 2 hospitals, 4 surgeries, and $400,000 in medical bills?
DERAILED is a true story - one woman's terrifying journey through a seemingly endless comedy of errors, miss-diagnosis, and near-death experiences. The reader will find themselves immersed in the constant stream of turmoil experienced by the unsuspecting patient; including cover ups, good doctors protecting bad doctors, and hospitals pitted against the other. Who is she? She is any woman, anywhere and everywhere.
Written by a woman unwilling to give up, the author's light hearted approach will endear you to the class and dignity she portrays; including scores of useful medical facts based upon subsequent research in the areas of fibroids, cysts, endometriosis, blood transfusions, drugs, blood clots, bypass implants, and more - all things she endured as a result of a so called "routine hysterectomy."
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