(This is the exact same silicone that is contained within the silicone gel-filled breast implant.)

Both her sons were born while her breast were full of silicone.

In 1968 she gave birth to a living child, just under five pounds. He was treated as a premature baby. He had allergies at birth that seemed to be life threatening. He was ill for the first three years and during this time absorbed more penicillin that you can imagine. He had what sounded like "death rattle" in his lungs, and he was always sick with labored breathing.

Later he was hyper and had learning disorders. Her other son was born C-section, premature, five pounds total weight. he too had allergies and at eighteen months he developed a kidney infection. He also had penicillin during his young years. His big problem was ear infections. At thirteen he suffered a bout with an ugly infection that started to go into anaphylactic shock from extremely infected tonsils. Cortisone shots held him until the tonsils could be removed by lazer surgery. He had a large melanoma mole removed in his late teens. He still suffers allergies.

Why did she have silicone injections? She was unsatisfied with her breast after having lost most of the tissue following a stillbirth. She lost about five inches in the chest in one week and like most women, felt unattractive. She sought information about what she could do and she was assured that the injections were "safe, simple, foolproof, no risk".

The doctor who injected her had injected himself many times and as a result died from complications of his own medicine, around the age of 62.

Ironically, she did not get ill from the silicone until the implants were put in. Why? It's hard to say, but it may be the immune system was overwhelmed, that the surgery caused the silicone to move, or that the implant material contained some ingredient that she had an immediate reaction to. Silicone is only one of the 39+ ingredients in an implant. Then, there is the shell and the many problems it has been known to cause. Just look at the thousands of women who had saline implants with the silicone shell.--THERE IS NO OTHER TYPE OF SHELL!

This lady became pregnant after the injections. By now she was having some pain, itching and burning in the breast area. Within a few months she found a tumor in her breast. The doctor said nothing to worry about, it wasn't cancer. She found another tumor under the arm, this time it was diagnosed as a swollen lymph gland. She was told, "The silicone in your breast tissue is going to progressively continue to form tumors. Malignant tumors cannot be distinguished from non-malignant tumors by x-ray." She was continually told to wait and watch and get a biopsy if needed. This continued, over and over. Then she went to get a routine pap smear and was told by her obstetrician (who had felt the tumor) to go immediately to the breast cancer center. They immediately set her up for bilateral mastectomies within a week. The doctor told her not to worry they could put something in while she was asleep that would make her look "normal". During the surgery all the tissue was removed down to the pectoral muscle, leaving the skin sacs with the nipples intact. She was 29 years old.

A polyurethane sheet was placed between the pectoral muscle and the skin sac, in preparation for the implant--to be put in three months later. She had Cronin's teardrop silicone implants put in. When the bandages came off she cried as she looked at the two grapefruit-looking objects on her chest.

   The nipples were pointing askew and she felt like a freak. The doctor acted as if he had done something wonderful for her. This was wonderful--normal?

This woman's story is hundreds of pages long, but here we will only tell you that she is now in her sixties and has been a very sick woman who lost most of her adulthood to illness and deformity. She is still alive--if you can call the type of lifestyle she has as a life. As you can see, she eventually had to have many surgeries and every bit of muscle, tissue, and skin was removed from her chest. You be the judge, did she deserve this? Were injections and implants safe? Some say she should have known better? How many times have you trusted your doctor? Yes, she now knows she has to take charge of her own health, and she has paid the price so you (those considering implants) won't have to. Do you really want to take a chance of spending the rest of your life sick and looking like this? She has told her story to hopefully save at least one other woman from this tragedy. That one person could be you.