Re: welcome home Germany travelers

From: toni welsh (twelsh1@hotmail.com)
Sat Dec 2 10:27:10 2000


At Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Cindy wrote: >
>welcome home ladies!
>congratulations on your new grandson Bev. I hope all of you ladies who
>had surgeries are feeling better. I am continuing to pray for all you
>(all of us).
>Helen/Bev I have a few questions that I have been holding onto until you
>came home. when the big 3 (Drs. Reich, Redan & Korell) do their
>adhesiolysis procedures, do they just cut the adhesions (lyse them) or
>do they actually attempt to remove them all? I have always wondered why
>my ob/gyn in my previous surgeries did not try to REMOVE them. it would
>make sense to me to remove them.
>the analogy I keep thinking of is: if you only cut a spider's web, of
>course the spider will just mend it, whereas if you remove it totally,
>perhaps the spider will leave. at any rate, it will take alot more time
>& effort to recreate! lol I know, weird. in fact, I was totally shocked
>to find out she only cut them.
>also, in a few instances (including Mary & Robin) Dr. Korell said that
>they might have to come back for another surgery in a year to be
>completely adhesion free. does he plan on charging them full price for
>the surgeries again?
>if the PA doctors do decide to start doing 2nd look surgeries, will they
>be charging substantially more money? they are already quite a bit more
>expensive than Dr. Korell.
>do any of the doctors have any idea why some of the ladies surgeries
>were unsuccessful? what are these ladies to do? I feel so bad for
>Chrissie, Lynne, Helen C., Jodi & Mary. how horrible for them to still
>be suffering.
>when is Dr. Wiseman going to be able to give us some statistics about
>how long after their surgeries the ladies have been pain free?
>after each of my surgeries, it takes about 6 months to completely heal
>and feel 100% pain free. then I feel great for about 1 & 1/2 years,
>then it all starts up again. by the 3rd or 4th year I am in pretty bad
>shape again. I just got over a partial bowel obstruction (my 1st
>fortunately). my adhesions always attach my sigmoid colon to my inner
>abdominal wall. I am trying to postpone my surgery as long as possible.
>I feel fortunate that I am not in severe pain every day. some days are
>good, some days are bad.
>sorry this letter had so many questions & dragged on for so long.
>I love you all & appreciate this forum so much. I am praying for the
>day when they will have a complete understanding & cure for our disease.
>Love,
>Cindy

I ditto that!! So glad to hear that you are all doing pretty good, and you Helen deserve the best, you have done so much for all of us, and we commmend you and bev for everything. I wish I could have been with you all, but funds, and flying stopped me. I hope that a dr like Korrel will be found here in our country who will try to learn and be able to help us ALL! Hope you all heal and stay PAIN FREE!!!!! You deserve it!

Love to all, Toni


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