We have dedicated the last 25-years of our lives to research, writing, publishing, and speaking on the effects of reproductive organ removal. As a result, Marcus and I are honored about having Beth pass the Sans-Uteri (SU) baton on to us to continue the great forum that Beth was so inspired to create for women to help other women. Thank you Beth for all that you have done, as you have helped countless numbers of women to be in communication and to understand that they are not alone!  We highly value the support all of you provide and receive from this forum.

Some of you already know me (Elizabeth) and my story from personal contact, my telling my story on 20/20, Good Morning America, SU postings, my books, and from the workshops I have presented internationally.  For those who do not know, I fell into the depths of hell and was only partially functioning when I had an oophorohysterectomy (uterus, cervix, and ovaries) in 1985.  My research began then when I started experiencing many of the biochemical changes that occur with loss of our ovarian hormones, and my doctor told me that all my symptoms were in my head.  Everything in me screamed, “No, I know I am different!  There is a chemical change that is difficult to describe.”  When we eventually found a regimen of bio-identical hormones that my body could absorb, I felt like me again!  At that point, I vowed to find out all that I could about the impact these surgeries have on women and how to help them.  I was very grateful for my Clinical Laboratory Scientist background in biochemistry as I began reading every research article I could find in the medical libraries in regard to hysterectomy and ovary removal.  In the process, I spent many years studying just hormone replacement.  The more I read, the more I knew HRT would be the only way to restore me to a person who could function again.  Not like I was before surgery, but as much as possible as one can be restored to without their natural ovaries.  The medical literature only reinforced my realization that there are many changes that occur with organ removal, and women deserve to be informed prior to surgery, as well as supported after surgery, AND provided with the ability to regain their biochemical balance.  My research has made me understand we are 6 billion unique biochemical beings on this planet.  Each woman’s outcome from these surgeries can have different a result.

2.     Research for technologies that preserve the function of the uterus and ovaries as women need solutions for their reproductive organ  problems that value the contributions these organs provide throughout their lives.