Re: Completely frustrated...
From: Kimmi (kimmi3@mediaone.net)
Wed Oct 4 18:58:37 2000
At Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Sherry Marie wrote:
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>Kimmi, I am so sorry to hear how you are suffering. I have had 7
>abdominal surgeries and was at my wits end too. My surgeon also told me
>that he wouldn't do any more surgery until I had another bowel
>obstruction. I left his office in tears. Surgery is not something that
>I wantd to go through with again but I wanted my life back, even for a
>couple of months. Through this forum my family and I learned of the
>adhesion specialists in Scranton, PA. I was recently hospitalized,
>tested to death, had consultations with GI specialists and was getting
>nowhere. All the Drs. said it was the adhesions but they didn't want
>to perform the surgery.(I must say my primary care doc made sure I had
>pain relief). My dear sweet hubby contacted Dr. Redan via e-mail and
>he wrote back that he was sure they could help me! We gathered all of my
>medical records and mailed them there. I am scheduled for surgery Oct.
>30th. Please, if you are not happy with the general surgeon, find
>another one. Is there any way you could check out Scranton,PA? It is
>your health and sometimes you have to fight hard to get the care you
>deserve. Do not give up! Friends who stick together, SheryMarie
Shery,
I am also sorry for all you are going through.
Hugs and prayers and hope the surgery works. Trust me I know what you
mean, I left the doctors office the other day and was happy that he
wanted to do surgery, and Like you not happy Yippee having surgery, but
happy that something was going to be done to bring me some relief.. But
then went and visited the surgeon. Spoke with many family members and
they would like me to get a second opinion.
I think its absolutely nuts to make someone wait until a life
threatening problem occurs before they go in. I get partial blockages
all the time, and have to try and deal with them breaking up on their
own, which is extremely painful, or wait for full blockage for them to
do surgery.
I need to GI doctor anyways and I know before he thought that I had the
endo up in the upper gastro tract as well, and thought it maybe a good
idea for them to take a peak and see whats up in there. So when I visit
him for some of these and other problems i am going to have him put in
his 2 cents in writing about another surgery. I know GYN just wants
someone to agree with him, even though I know he knows deep down it is
right.. Thanks again for your support. Hugs and prayers
Kimmi