At Sun, 13 May 2001, Wally wrote:
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>Dearest Jamie,
>
>I have been suffering from the effects of adhesions for over 14 years.
>My latest surgery was on April 9, so not long before your precious
>husband. I came through ok this time, it was a different story last
>year. I had to have surgery 5 days after my hystorectomy.
>
>Jamie, this time I returned to hospital with a suspected blockage, but
>thank God, it cleared itself and I didn't require more surgery!. From
>what I gather from the adhesions board, bowels & blockages seem to be
>our main danger.
>
>For me, it has been the support of family & friends who have got me
>through this, including people from the International Adhesions Society.
>I wish I had a magic formula that I could send you to help YOU and your
>husband heal.
>
>Both my husband & I read your message on the board and we BOTH
>understood. It is he who has to sit in the waiting room while I sleep
>through the whole drama totally unaware that my hour surgery has turned
>into 4 or 5 hours....which has happened several times now instead of the
>half to hour procedure we were advised it would be.
>
>You will get loads of support, and Helen Dynda and many others offer
>good practical advice too. My advice? Please read, ask questions and
>read some more....seek opinions....2nd 3rd....whatever it takes for you
>both to be happy with decisions you make about your husbands future
>health needs.
>
>To keep my spirits going Shane (My wonderful, loving, dear dear
>husband), printed out all the messages he received just like this one I
>write to you and brought them to me in the hospital every day. An
>important breakthrough for adhesions sufferers is to discover is that we
>are NOT alone, there are others who understand our continuing pain and
>complicated repeated surgeries.
>
>My reaction when I found this site? I cried.....buckets and buckets,
>Shane also shared some tears. How long did you cry for Jamie? We are
>here to support you, and your husband. What is his name? Many of us
>would love to include him in our daily prayers, his name makes it easier
>for us :-) and lets him now that we are mates. Jamie, I am an
>Australian, so you can see that adhesions is indeed a world wide
>problem, with luck, perhaps one of our fellow board members will live
>near you & will be able to offer you some extra support!
>
>Welcome to the board Jamie, I know that you will receive help from many
>caring souls,
>Cheers & hugs,
>Jo
>
>At Sat, 12 May 2001, JAMIE wrote:
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>>I thought I would share my story with you all and would appreciate any
>>feeback that I can get.
>>
>>On April 12, my husband was admitted into the hospital with an
>>intestinal blockage. Previously, in 1993, he had a surgery to remove an
>>intestinal blockage and so they figured that it was just scar tissue. He
>>went into surgery on April 13th. Surgery went good. Until 2 weeks
>>later when he had no bowel tones, we all thought everything was fine.
>>
>>Exactly 2 weeks from the first surgery, they took him in for a 2nd
>>surgery. After waiting 8 hours in the waiting room, I was finally told
>>my husband was out of surgery. The doctor came out and told me it was
>>the worst adhesions he had ever seen. The surgery took 8
>>HOURS......When my husband was brought to me, he was on life support.
>>Not breathing on his own, heartrate of 170, temp of 105, blood pressure
>>of 69/43. They said he probley would not make it thru the night. Well,
>>it has now been over a month since the day he was admitted to the
>>hospital for the first surgery. He has not even been outside in 31
>>days. He is so extremely depressed that I am worried about him. The
>>doctors are hearing bowel tones and are expecting him to go home soon,
>>well a week or so.
>>
>>It would be greatly appreciated if anyone can give me some advice or
>>anything. I hope nobody ever has to go through what he went through.
>>And now hope this wont happen again. The doctors say that there is a
>>chance that it will but in taking out 8 feet of the small intestine,
>>they think he might get by okay.
>>
>>Sincerely
>>
>>--
>>Jamie
>>
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>You will never never know.......if you don't give it a go :)
>