-- Dear Amy, I am writing to you regarding the shunt your daughter had put into her entire small bowel. I am 32 years of age and have also had a subtotal colectomy which resulted in peritonitis and another 6 laparotomies as well as a total hysterectomy. My colectomy was done 8 years ago and I now suffer from chronic bowel obstructions as a result of adhesions. I was most excited to learn from your daughter's experience that it was possible to have a shunt put in to the small bowel to stop you from obstructing. I live in Sydney, Australia and am wondering if you could please email me with your Doctors name and contact details so that I could possibly have the same procedure done on me. I obstruct at least twice or more each week and know that everytime the Doctors do another laparotomy on me to divide some adhesions I come out with another lot which makes it a real catch 22 !!! Thank you so much for telling of your daughter's story on the adhesion website. I have never been able to find or meet anyone else with a similar history and such problems with adhesions. I can empathize so much with your daughter with the pain of the adhesions and I just hope that the shunt has been a success for her and somehow reduced her level of pain caused by the obstructions. Many thanks and I really look forward to hearing from you. Kind regards,Jennie Fox