>----- Original Message -----
From: TediBrHugs@aol.com
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 5:49 PM
Subject: I am still alive
> Dear Friends:
> Please accept my apologies for not writing. For the last month not only
have
> I been fighting the adhesions I've also been having severe breathing
> complications, not the sort of trouble you need on top of adhesions I
know.
> Anyway, I finally got MEDICAID, thank God and all of you for your prayers,
> and now am able to see doctors and actually be treated as a human being.
My
> first experience today was with a PCP who is absolutely wonderful!!!! He
is
> not only treating all my breathing problems, he sent me to a general
surgeon
> to be treated for the adhesions. I spoke with this dr briefly and he
agreed
> I am in far too much pain to continue. My PCP wrote me prescriptions for
> pain and sleep and the general surgeon is seeing me next week to see what
my
> options are and to treat the pain until we decide what to do.
> I am going to New Jersey (to get away for a while) and then when I return
> will probably have all kinds of tests with the PCP and the general
surgeon,
> but atleast it is a start, where as I had no beginning and no end before.
It
> is a step, a small one albeit, but a step none the less in the right
> direction.
> Thank you all for your prayers and support and keep them up as I keep them
up
> for you all.
> Love, **HUGS** and prayers,
> Missy
>