by Ivydragon » Sep 21, 2005 1:44 am
Ok, I've pretty much had it with my speech. I must be at 5-8 min., and I'm at 8 min. 11 seconds.
So, here are the goals for my speech. The topic is loss, I have to include quotes, relate my adoption story and represent the forums.
I'm asking your help. I represent you, so tell me if my speech actually does that. Be brutal, I work much better that way, I speak in a week and have yet to feel like my speech is being received as acceptible. If you gals think that more quotes are needed, please let me know on what topics, and help me find them. Either quotes need to be removed to accomidate new ones, chopped to be shorter, or more of my own story would need to be condensed. Telling me why you change something will help me understand the reason and allow me to address the concept and still word things my own way - that's important to me. So here it is - have at it. And please don't worry about saying something that someone else has already said - I need to know if you all agree or not. I'm going to work this a little differently, and once your suggestions are applied or vetoed, I'm going to delete them so I can keep track of what I have considered, and what is new for me to consider.
Andy
Good morning, my name is Andrea. I administrate the HER Foundations’ discussion forums and represent thousands of women who have suffered Hyperemesis Gravidarum, or HG.
I am here to bring attention to the plight of the women I represent, but first allow me to briefly describe my own HG experiences. I was six weeks pregnant when I was diagnosed. Our excitement turned to terror as we realized this was not usual "morning sickness". I was hospitalized, and administered IV fluids for hydration when I couldn't keep anything down. Over the next few months I was put on oral medications, rehospitalized, and prescribed injections for a month. Everyone told me I’d be better by 12 weeks, but I vomited until week 15. I was all right after that and after two vomit-free months I stopped my oral medication. Shockingly, I was again hospitalized within three days, vomiting uncontrollably and severely dehydrated. My Drs. had said nothing about relapse, I’m not sure they even knew. I religiously took my medication from then on and avoided any more IVs. Many women suffer all nine months, and relapse while on medication.
Eighteen months after my first delivery we were asking a new doctor if HG could reoccur. She said, “There’s no way you could possibly be that sick againâ€ÂÂ
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Ivydragon on Sep 22, 2005 1:05 am, edited 6 times in total.
Mom to Aaron 14 (HG), Anna 11 (HG), Adam 8 (adopted), Andrew 8 (adopted), fostering a newborn . . .