Cushing's Awareness Month: Living With Stripes

April 8 is Cushing's Syndrome (Disease) Awareness Month.  April 8 is Awareness Day.  Many "Cushie" bloggers will be sharing this month as often as they can.    What I would like to do is highlight another blog each day this week so you can see what others out there do.

One of my friends, whom I first met several years ago through our common disease and whom I have now met in "real life",  has a fairly new blog called "Living With Stripes".   She shares some great info.    One of her posts starts out like this:

“Our study shows that BLA (bilateral adrenalectomry) for persistent Cushing's disease provides patients with considerable improvement in their Cushing-related symptoms with concordant increase in their quality of life. After BLA, patients may attain the same (or better) quality of life as patients initially cured by transsphenoidal pituitary tumor resection. We think that BLA is a safe and effective treatment of the 10% to 30% of patients who fail initial therapy for Cushing's disease, and should be considered preferentially over other available therapies” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1877068/

I like that statement!   

Today I am 25 days post-op my BLA surgery and my mantra is ‘slow and steady’.  I thought I would outline this step of my journey for those who may be considering a BLA as treatment for their persistent Cushings.....
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