The First Year: Fibroids An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed

When Johanna Skilling was diagnosed with fibroids in 1995, she found little information, advice, and support for her condition. Fibroids -- though an estimated eight in ten women will be affected in their lifetime -- has remained a little talked about condition in the medical world. In an effort to be proactive in the management and treatment of her condition, Skilling became a "patient-expert" on fibroids -- by reading medical and scientific books and journals, talking with doctors, and networking with other people who have fibroids. Now she shares her experience and knowledge with everyone who has been newly diagnosed. With great sensitivity, Skilling walks those newly diagnosed step-by-step through everything one needs to do and learn each day of the first week after diagnosis, each subsequent week of the first month, and the following eleven months of the crucial first year. By providing reliable, useful, empathetic, and up-to-date information you need to know when you most need to know it, The First Year -- Fibroids is an indispensable guide for every woman coming to terms with a fibroids diagnosis. Book jacket.

Johanna Skilling is a marketing executive and writer in New York. Frustrated by the inconsistent treatment recommendations and information she received after being diagnosed with fibroids, Skilling has devoted much of her time to helping others who share her condition by researching and writing about living with fibroids