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The FDA in 2008 issued a Public Health Notification regarding “serious complications associated with transvaginal placement of surgical mesh in repair of pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence.

The notice states, “The most frequent complications included erosion through vaginal epithelium, infection, pain, urinary problems, and recurrence of prolapse and/or incontinence.”

“My question was: How did this happen to 1.5 million women?” Horton asks. “All the safeguards we have in our society, and we’re supposed to have the best health care in the world and the best access to it.”

Dr. Michael Hibner, the director of the division of surgery and pelvic pain at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, has been removing the mesh from women’s bodies for several years.

“I think it’s a very small percentage [of women] that have a serious reaction,” he says. “There are people who are happy with the mesh. The problem is that those who are unhappy with it are really, really unhappy with it.” doctors implanting the mesh haven’t been appropriately prepared or trained.

Dr. Greg Vigna, who spent 18 years in the medial industry but now practices l aw in catastrophic injury in California, is familiar with the trail of broken lives mesh-related injuries leaves behind.

As a doctor, Vigna worked with patients who suffered from pudendal neuralgia, which is chronic pain due to the pudendal nerve, which is located in the pelvis, being entrapped or compressed. Until a few years ago, this was very uncommon.

“This mesh device caused a problem that used to be very rare,” he says. “It’s not rare anymore because mesh has been used so many times.”

“My question was: How did this happen to 1.5 million women? All the safeguards we have in our society, and we’re supposed to have the best health care in the world and the best access to it.”

Most women do not have the time, resources or the physical wellness needed to go head-tohead with pharmaceutical companies, so they become “medically destitute,” Vigna says. They lose their jobs because they can’t work, they lose their husbands because they can’t have sex, and they lose their families because they’re in so much pain they can’t function normally.

Most of the women Hibner sees have pain due to three things: pain from the mesh rubbing against or tugging at the nerves, nerve damage during implant or explant of the mesh and/or a foreignbody reaction to the mesh itself.

Hibner believes manufacturers are largely to blame for the mesh-related injuries.

Hibner says that if the procedure is done right, women shouldn’t have pain or discomfort. The problem, Hibner says, is that manufacturers are selling the device to doctors as a one-size-fitsall device, and it’s being touted as a simple, non-invasive procedure, so the

“There’s failure in the medical community, there’s failure in the financial community, and there’s failure in the legal community,” Vigna insists.

At the time of publication there had been 56,999 mesh-related lawsuits filed, according to Vigna, but very few settlements have come down.

At the same time doctors like Hibner are taking the mesh out, hundreds more continue to put it in. Other doctors try to remove mesh, but very few know how to do it correctly, Vigna says.

“For years women were only getting part of the mesh taken out, and that wasn’t helping,” Vigna says. “In fact, that was just making things more complicated for future doctors.”

Most of the women Hibner sees have already had the device extracted but are still experiencing pain, usually because parts of the mesh are still inside the body, pulling at sensitive nerves. He says he believes removing the entire device, all at once, is best.

“I’ve seen women who have clearly gotten better after removing the mesh. But then, there are other ones who didn’t. So I think it depends on the pa- tient. Some have had more injury to the nerves, and others have had less injury to the nerves, so it’s hard to tell.”

Horton and her family are crossing their fingers, hoping Horton’s mother is one of the lucky ones.

Horton’s mother had surgery to have her mesh removed in May, and her family is still waiting to find out if the surgery was successful in lessening or erasing her pain.

“But the truth is, each injury is different,” Horton says. “They don’t know what happens during the explant because it just depends on the woman’s body and the kind of injury.”

In the meantime, Horton continues to research and fill her blog with personal stories and interviews with doctors in hopes of reaching as many women as possible.

“There’s still so many more who don’t know,” Horton says. “That’s what keeps me awake at night.”

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The Kessler School offers an innovative academic environment that gives students a solid foundation, confidence, and a love of learning. Located just minutes from downtown Dallas; The Kessler School’s mission is to “educate the whole child,” and provides an individualized approach to teaching – meeting the student where their needs are. Students are educated socially through community time, physically through daily PE, academically through a wellrounded curriculum, and spiritually through a fostering of awareness and individual growth.

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Leading to Success. 2720 Hillside Dr., Dallas 75214 / 214.826.2931 / lakehillprep. org Kindergarten through Grade 12 - Lakehill Preparatory School takes the word preparatory in its name very seriously. Throughout a student’s academic career, Lakehill builds an educational program that achieves its goal of enabling graduates to attend the finest, most rigorous universities of choice. Lakehill combines a robust, college-preparatory curriculum with opportunities for personal growth, individual enrichment, and community involvement. From kindergarten through high school, every Lakehill student is encouraged to strive, challenged to succeed, and inspired to excel.

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Summer Chess Camp Campers learn while they PLAY. Chess develops reading, math, critical and analytical skills, and builds character and self-esteem. Just don’t tell the kids…they think chess is fun! Join beginner, intermediate or advanced chess classes for ages 7 to 13 on the UT Dallas campus. Morning (9am-noon) or afternoon (1-4pm) sessions are available June 9-13, June 16-20, July 14-18, July 21-25 and extended playing classes. Camp includes t-shirt, chess board and pieces, trophy, certificate, score book, group photo, snacks and drinks. Instructors are from among UT Dallas Chess Team PanAm Intercollegiate Champions for 2010-2012!

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“Summer has set in with its usual severity,” once moaned English poet and albatross-obsessed Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Though a very large pond and a couple of centuries separate us from Coleridge, it appears he hit upon a rather fine slogan for Dallas in the summer. Suffer through just a couple of days here in June, July or (horrors!) August, and you understand. What to do, short of cloistering yourself away in

Live in this neighborhood for just a short while and you’re bound to discover the cool, splashy oasis that is our neighborhood pool. Ensconced at Tietze Park, it has played host to generations of neighbors seeking relief from 100-plus-degree days.

Before 1924, though, Tietze Park was pastureland, private acreage belonging to M. Boyd Keith and Charles C. Huff. They received more than $16,000 for the land, according to records provided by Willis Winters, director of the Dallas Park and Recreation Department, and John Slate, city archivist. The land was christened “Keith Park.” Meanwhile, the park department had plans to develop “Tietze Park,” named after W.R. Tietze, floricul-

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turist and superintendent of parks from 1896 to 1933. They entered into an agreement with Dallas Water Utilities to develop the park at DWU property on Mockingbird, between Matilda and Greenville (across from present-day Kroger). DWU backed out of the agreement in the eleventh hour, and the board decided that Keith Park would now be Tietze Park.

A “junior pool” — little more than a wading pool — was built at the park in 1930. East Dallasites also cooled off at the Fair Park pool and White Rock Beach. But “sanitary standards were substandard, even for the 1930s.” Larger “community pools” began popping up around the growing city, and Tietze’s junior pool was replaced in 1946 with the pool we swim in today.

Rose-Mary Rumbley, popular speaker and author of several books on Dallas, including “A Stroll in the Park: 100 Years of the Dallas Park & Recreation Board,” remembers the very early days of the pool. She lived on Vanderbilt, not far from the park, which, back in the day, was known as Llano Park, despite its official name. “We all walked to the pool from our houses. There was no air conditioning, so the pool was it! The only cool spot in the neighborhood.” She laughingly adds, “There were swimming instructors, and we all took lessons from them because they were such cute boys.”

Rumbley also remembers a familiar — and handsome — face working there. “Mr. William J. Morris, physics teacher at North Dallas High, sold tickets at the pool — it was a summer job for the poor teacher. Teachers had to work during the summer so they could eat! He was so good looking, we girls went to the pool to see him.”

But Rumbley sadly recalls the summer the pool closed because of the polio epidemic: “Polio came and we couldn’t go swimming.” Dallas historian Sally Rodriguez confirms that all pools in the city were closed in 1952, mostly out of an abundance of caution.

Joe Jackson, lifelong East Dallas resident and longtime real estate broker, has memories of Tietze Pool as well. And like Rumbley, he knew the park as Llano Park. “I had never heard anyone call it ‘Tietze’ until one day a sign appeared on the corner of Skillman and Llano, and it said ‘Tietze Park.’ “

Jackson says he spent many an hour at the pool, a mere three blocks away from his home on Palo Pinto. He has particularly happy memories of visiting the pool during the 1950s, walking or riding his bike there along with his neighborhood friends and paying the 10-cent admission.

Though it is long gone now, the concession stand at the pool sold quite a variety of items. “I remember in the hot summer,” Jackson says, “always buying a snow cone on my way back home after swimming. I noticed that in addition to soft drinks, candy, hot dogs, etc., they also sold packages of cigarettes. I saw the ‘older’ teens buying them and smoking in the pavilion behind the stand.”

Jackson enjoyed the pool, learning to dive from the high board as well as playing “dibble dabble” with his friends and doing “cannonballs” and “sliders” off the board. The last two, he says, “created a massive splash and, done properly, would be directed to the teenage girls sunning around the pool.”

A sign of the times — Jackson says he “vividly” remembers seeing at the pool one of the neighbor boys who had just returned from basic training. “He had a tattoo of a black panther or a wild cat at the top of his arm.” Body ink being a novelty at the time, Jackson says he couldn’t help but stare at it and soon realized that “the cute teenage girls were all intrigued by the tattoo and flirting with him.”

Times and trends have changed, but the “usual severity” of Dallas summers has remained a constant, no matter the generation. So, instead of bemoaning the heat, jump into Tietze Pool. It’s cool.

Patti Vinson is a guest writer who has lived in East Dallas for 14 years. She’s written for the Advocate and Real Simple magazine, and has taught college writing. She is a frequent flier at Lakewood branch library and enjoys haunting neighborhood estate sales with husband Jonathan and children, Claire (12) and Will (9). The family often can be found hanging out at White Rock Lake Dog Park with Dexter, a probable JackWeenie.

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1 Zoës Kitchen opened May 15 in the old Snow Pea Restaurant location off Abrams. The space has been completely reworked to accommodate Zoës with lots of big windows and bright colors.

2 In April, the walls went up at Arboretum Village shopping center at Gaston-Garland-Grand. 3 Excellence 24-Hour Emergency Room announced it is coming soon to the Skillman-Live Oak shopping center at the corner of Skillman and Oram. It is slated to open in October.

4 The space in the corner of Lakeview Shopping Center facing Gaston is being remodeled to house City Vet, a Dallas-based pet care provider.

5 Construction at Ginger Man Pub in Lakewood Shopping Center looks like it’s approaching its end. The owners hoped to open toward the end of May.