The Bleeding Edge Page #2

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I even went so far as I had my own website

called Ask Gaby.

Patients would to me,

doctors would write to me.

I told them all the benefits.

I used to tell them that it took longer

to get your nails done

than it did to get sterilized.

Where's your headband?

Oh, hi!

How was school?

- We had to do dance inside, but...

- Yeah?

We were inside the whole time.

I have a full-time job in a business firm.

I am an account executive.

I love my job.

I have four daughters.

And I enjoy every moment

with my kids.

I want to go on Area 51.

You've got to try that!

My husband and I had decided

that four kids was enough.

So when I went to my doctor,

my doctor recommended Essure.

Wait, let me take a picture

of all you winners.

Smile!

Okay.

He said that it was easy.

You come in the office,

you leave and you're good.

You go back to your normal life.

Thread the Essure device

through the introducer

while you hold the hysteroscope.

Slowly and steadily advance

the Essure delivery system

into the fallopian tube.

He said I shouldn't feel anything.

Just two little devices

that I wouldn't even notice.

But the moment

I stepped out of the doctor's office,

I started feeling cramping.

Then, in the first week,

I started bleeding

more than I have ever bled

in my whole life during a period.

I called the doctor.

He's like, "Those two little things

doesn't do anything,

doesn't do all those changes

that you're telling me."

So I just kept continuing to believe

that it was in my head.

I went in for the procedure.

I could feel the whole thing.

I felt it go into my tube.

I remember hearing the clicking noises.

I felt it expand.

Um, it was pretty intense.

After the procedure,

I was running fevers a lot.

The bleeding was almost continual.

There may be a day or two

during the month when I wasn't bleeding.

The sharp, stabbing pain on my left side

was getting more and more intense.

So I made an appointment to go in

and have an exam.

The doctor ordered an ultrasound.

He came in and he looked at the screen

and just said, "Oh, it looks likeone

of her Essure devices is in her uterus."

And I was kind of in shock.

So he says,

"You know, we need to get these out."

And I agreed.

Woke up and the doctor said,

"Everything went good."

You know. "Go home and heal and rest

and you should feel better."

But after the procedure,

I started having problems again.

The bleeding started picking up.

My husband had gone with me

to the hospital

and we're in a room,

and I've got the IV in...

and just blood exploded out of me.

Like, it looked like a horror scene.

And there were large clots

all over the floor.

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