Book Description
This book contains pre-op and post-op information, checklists, helpful hints for recovery and more. Advise given in the book is shared as a form of sisterly advice and women to women support. "Bedtime Stories for Hyster Sisters" are included to add to the sisterly charm of this book. This book reflects the solid information along with a bit of humor known at the Hyster Sisters website.


From the Author
While recovering from my own hysterectomy, I created a website as I gathered information. The success of that website grew as thousands of women found help while recovering from surgeries. I then began to get requests for a book version of the site. I scratched my head, marveled at the Internet, and got to work. So, here it is...because after all, there are still places you can't take your computer.


About the Author
Kathy Kelley is a public school teacher and an author which she manages to squeeze in during summer vacations. She authored this book as an extension of her website: Hyster Sisters. Besides being the creator of the Hyster Sisters website, she loves to read, paint, and shop for antiques. Someday she hopes to have a dachshund puppy. Kathy Kelley is married, has two grown children.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

After spending years researching and gathering information before my hysterectomy in June of 1998, I found that no matter what resources I had, I needed more! Being an internet junkie, I went online to find some helpful hints for my recovery process.I wanted more than medical brochures. I wanted reassurances that the funny aches and pains and the odd smells were normal.

I built the website as I gathered information. Women found the website and began to post questions and answers. Information and resources for pre-op, post-op, hormone issues, grief, cancer concerns and more meant that the website continued to grow and become a safe haven for women to ask questions of each other and be supportive.

The book: Through the Land of Hyster, the Hyster Sisters Guide is from the website. It has frequently asked questions that women ask about their surgery and recovery period. It is not intended to be medical information or to take the place of a personal physician.

The book along with the website is intended to be a comfort and a companion through the difficult choices and decisions we must make along the way. ￯﾿ﾽ￯﾿ﾽ It is all about women helping women. Included in the book are checklists, humorous antidotes and reminders of life's blessings. It also contains "Bedtime Stories for Hyster Sisters" with photographic illustrations from the Land of Hyster.

This book is neither anti-hyst or pro-hyst in nature. Rather, it is a book of kindness with medical concerns that each woman faces when she is told by her doctor that a hysterectomy may be an option.