>----- Original Message -----
From: toni welsh <twelsh1@hotmail.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@forum.obgyn.net>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: Home again
> At Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Robyne Hinks wrote:
> >
> >Hi everyone just a few lines to let you know that I am home again after
> >another 4 days in with another gutobstructioin.. I was telling you all
last
> >week about being acepted to be tried with the intergel. I JUST HAD to
find a
> >Dr who was willing to use it.Well I have had denial after denial but have
> >finally found one who will use it I t is Dr George Fielding in Brisbane
so
> >if there is anyone else from Australia there it is but you have to
contact
> >Johnson and Johnson or try to get it into the country yourself.It costs
> >A$400 for 300mls.The lady to ask for at J&J is a Ms. Cathy Shelley the
> >production manager here in Australia.I go to see Dr Fielding in Next
> >Thursday at 2;00P.M.WEll I will sign off for now as I am very tired.Love
> >always,Robyne.
>> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Helen Dynda <olddad66@runestone.net>
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@forum.obgyn.net>
> >Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 3:10 AM
> >Subject: Attitude is everything
> >
> >> The following was sent to me by Cindy. There is a good lesson to be
> >learned
> >> from this; and this is my reason for sharing it with you.
> >>
> >> Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good
mood
> >> and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him
how
> >he
> >> was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be
> >> twins!"
> >>
> >> He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day,
Michael
> >> was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the
> >> situation.
> >>
> >> Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to
Michael
> >> and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of
the
> >> time. How do you do it?"
> >>
> >> Michael replied , "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Mike, you
> >have
> >> two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can
choose
> >to
> >> be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood.
> >>
> >> Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can
> >choose
> >> to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.
> >>
> >> Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept
their
> >> complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the
> >> positive side of life.
> >>
> >> "Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested.
> >>
> >> "Yes, it is," Michael said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut
> >away
> >> all the junk, every situation is a choice.
> >> You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will
affect
> >> your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom
line:
> >> It's your choice how you live life."
> >>
> >> I reflected on what Michael said. Soon thereafter, I left the Tower
> >> Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought
> >about
> >> him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.
> >>
> >> Several years later, I heard that Michael was involved in a serious
> >> accident, falling some 60 feet from a communication tower. After 18
hours
> >> of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the
> >> hospital with rods placed in his back.
> >>
> >> I saw Michael about six months after the accident. When I asked him
how
> >he
> >> was, he replied. "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Wanna see my
> >scars?"
> >> I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his
> >mind
> >> as the accident took place.
> >>
> >> "The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my
soon
> >to
> >> be born daughter," Michael replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground, I
> >> remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or I could
> >choose
> >> to die. I chose to live."
> >>
> >> "Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.
> >>
> >> Michael continued, "...the paramedics were great. They kept telling me
I
> >> was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw
the
> >> expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really
scared.
> >In
> >> their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man.' I knew I needed to take action."
> >>
> >> "What did you do?" I asked.
> >>
> >> "Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said
> >Michael.
> >> " She asked if I was allergic to anything. ' Yes, I replied.' " The
> >> doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took
a
> >> deep breath and yelled, "Gravity." Over their laughter, I told them,
"I
> >am
> >> choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."
> >>
> >> Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of
his
> >> amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice
to
> >> live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.
> >>
> >> You have two choices now:
> >>
> >> 1. Delete this.
> >> 2. Forward it to the people you care about
> >>
>
> I hope you are feeling better. Can you tell me your symptoms for
> obstruction, I ask only because I relative of mine had an obstruction,
> and he never vomited, and he was still having bowel movements, it was
> told when the dr did a colonoscopy last year the scope did not go in far
> enough, and he had a blockage, but he went on for 6 months having BMs,
> and just suddenly one day he took a pill, and it caused the obstructio,
> he got sick once, and rushed him to ER, he was operated on but
> peritinitis already set in. The second surgery took him, these are the
> reasons I fear surgery so bad. When ar e you trying the Intergel, I
> would go now if the FDA would get it in the US> What are they waiting
> for?
>
> Toni
>