00:00I actually, I met Dr. Lippman who performed the fibro embolization for me at my grandfather's
00:07opening of his charities. Well, new location, new location. The charity is called For Hosea
00:16and he was one of the biggest donors there. He had actually gotten $250,000 out of his Apple
00:24stock to help my family get its new location and new warehouse. And so I heard a story and then I
00:32met him. He said, Oh, you know, I was Cynthia's doctor and you know, I'm Dr. Lippman for fibroids.
00:38And I was like, Oh my God, like I am completely suffering. Help me. And when I say suffering,
00:43I mean, big time, like I constantly fatigue, heavy periods, back pain, every single symptom,
00:52headaches, foggy memory, everything just suffering. And so when I'm, when he gave me his card,
01:01I was like, Oh my God, this is so perfect. I will be calling you. And I met with him and
01:05he told me about fibroid embolization, which is a procedure that you can have to actually
01:11kill off the blood supply to the fibroids. Okay. And so when I spoke to him, he said that
01:16I would still be able to conceive afterwards. Um, so my fertility should still be intact. We'll see
01:23my fertility should still be intact. Um, but it, it rid me, it will rid me of them forever,
01:31which, you know, with a myomectomy, what they do is when they cut you open and they take them out,
01:36some of them may still be nestled in the muscle and they end up growing. That's what we call growing
01:41back. Right. So I had a myomectomy before 2012 and they had grown back to now. One of them is like
01:47literally resting on my spinal cord. Um, but hopefully the embolization in the next three
01:53months, he's going to check me out and he's going to let me know, you know, have they died off, you
01:58know, how, how successful it was, which his procedures he said is about 99% successful and
02:04killing off these for all of the fibroids. So, um, fingers crossed for that. So, um, my thing is I
02:12just, I definitely want to see how it is three months later and see if everything is good, but I
02:17want every black woman to go get checked for fibroids. I mean, I have, I even still now with
02:23me being as open as I am about having a miscarriage from fibroids and Pilar being my rainbow baby. I still
02:30talk to family members and friends who haven't checked for fibroids. And we as African-American
02:36women are the highest percentage to have them. Most of them is hereditary. So if you are even
02:43thinking, possibly thinking about conceiving, you want to make sure that you look at all options to
02:49rid yourself of those fibroids so that you can have a healthy pregnancy.
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