>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Linda Beebe
> To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 3:57 PM
> Subject: WELL...YOU all warned me!
>
> HI...
> If I can write this between sobs, I'm so upset!
>
> I just returned from the Surgeon's office, who nearly laughed me out of his office...he looks right in my eyes and said..."Adhesions don't cause bowel obstructions or digestive problems".
> He also claimed the records faxed to him said nothing about adhesions.
> The surgeon who found them a year ago, had faxed all her records to him.
>
> HIS solution is to get me an appointment with a gastro-doctor, for more tests.
> He feels I have IBS...blah, blah, blah.
> Tests I've had repeatedly in the last few years, to be more specific.
>
> SO I come home, beside myself, and call my surgeon back home who found the adhesions last year. I tell her nurse my story.
> She pulls up my files..and reads to me from them...
> "EXTENSIVE small intestinal adhesions causeing partical bowel obstructions".
>
> Plain as day, in black and white!! in her surgical notes!
> I ask, PLEASE, can you send ME those files, she said YES!
>
> This doctor was cold, rude, and arrogant!
> I felt like a fool!
>
> I can't eat, I can't work, my business is going under...I'm absolutely floored as to what to do...except keep looking for a doctor who will listen.
>
> I'll write more when I'm not so upset!
> Linda Beebe
Linda,
I am so sick and tired too of these drs, That is why I have basically given up on ALL of them. I did have to call the GI dr this week tho, after Tuesday night, but I will probaly get the same reactions!
Toni