>----- Original Message -----
From: Renee Madron <madron2@yahoo.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 5:18 AM
Subject: Small victory
> I would like to share my small victory with my IAS family. I had a gyn
> check-up today and my doc. acknowledged the severity of my adhesion
> disease, as well as offered to help me in my current project. I have
> been seeing my gyn for 3 years and I have waged war with him on several
> visits on behalf of others and myself, that suffer with the consequences
> of adhesions, but early on he wouldn't bend, in his acknowledgment of
> the subject and the problems they create.
>
> My adhesion disease is pelvic and abdominal, but they are also, severe
> and visible in my vaginal canal. Upon exam it appears, that I have a
> cervix, which I do not, I have had a complete and total hysterectomy.
> The adhesions in this area, attach at least two inches down into the
> vaginal canal, give or take a few centimeters. And as usual during an
> exam, like today, he asked that silly question, "did your former gyn
> leave a piece of your cervix"? That questioned angered me today, simply
> because I have answered it the same way many times in the past the same
> way, so I let him know a thing or two today, about myself and about my
> adhesion disease and my project, which in the past he wasn't willing to
> listen to, but I made him today, I stood in front of the door and didn't
> move until he had heard everything I had to say. I guess I looked a
> little funny, standing there in my fanciful white paper shirt and
> matching paper coverlet half held on. I don't advice anyone to act as I
> did unless you have a good relationship with your doc, which I do, but
> he tends to be set in his ways a bit and tends to need a slight "I got
> something to tell you" thrown at him.
>
> So, I do feel good about this victory, even as small as it is, it's
> still a step forward. Knowing too, that he is willing to aid me in my
> efforts of bringing recognition to this disease in my resident area is
> truly a good thing. So see, persistence does pay off, as well as
> educating one's self to a higher degree, in order to insure intelligence
> when discussing this subject with your physician(s).
>
> --
> Renee Madron
> Richmond Adhesion Society
> http://www.aboutras.org (Under construction)
> 765-965-7435
> madron2@yahoo.com
>