>----- Original Message -----
From: "Helen Dynda" <olddad66@runestone.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 10:22 PM
Subject: I feel so left out because Dr. Redan said he couldn't help me
now....
> Dear Millie,
>
> You said: "I feel so left out because Dr. Redan said he couldn't help me
> now."
>
> Millie, I assume your last surgery was a laparotomy ( open abdominal ).
If
> that is true, then Dr. Redan really cannot do laparoscopic surgery for you
> until your laparotomy incision has thoroughly healed.
>
> Why can't he? Dr. Redan has thousands of hours of experience to know that
a
> laparotomy incision must be thoroughly healed before he can can perform a
> laparoscopic surgery. Your laparotomy incision must be at a specific
stage
> of healing before he can even consider doing laparoscopic surgery for you.
>
> Before a surgeon can actually perform laparoscopic surgery, he must
> insufflate the abdomen with carbon dioxide...a gas that will expand the
> abdominal wall so the surgeon is able to easily view the internal organs
and
> so that he/she will have room within the abdomen to do whatever surgical
> procedure may be necessary.
>
> When carbon dioxide is insufflated into the abdomen, this gas actually
> expands the abdomen...making the abdomen look like that of a woman about
> ready to give birth!! If the scar from your laparotomy incision is not
> healed completely , surgery at this time could be very risky for you. It
is
> for your own protection that Dr. Redan wants you to wait. In the
meantime,
> it would be for your own good, if you could understand that Dr. Redan has
> your best interests at heart.
>
> Instead of dwelling on a "poor me" outlook, while waiting for a future
> appointment with Dr. Redan, use this time to learn as much as you can
about
> adhesions. The distraction of actually learning as much as you can about
> adhesions, will begin to dominate your thoughts; and you will be
surprised
> at how much better you will begin to feel. This is actually a
psychological
> technique...and it really works!!
>
> KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!!
>