Quote of the week: "Learn from the mistakes of others........ You can't live long enough to make them all yourself"
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From: "Helen Dynda" <olddad66@runestone.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS" <adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 11:36 PM
Subject: From the IAS Archives: You might be an adhesion sufferer if...
From: J.J. ( jjriggs@thefineprintintl.com ) Date: March 20, 2001
Hi folks,
I got bored and decided to have a little fun. Enjoy!
YOU MIGHT BE AN ADHESION SUFFERER IF...
* You've memorized when your local pharmacy receives shipments of Senekot.
* You've been blacklisted by every gastroenterologist within a 50-mile radius.
* The ER staff knows you by name and keeps a locker for you.
* You have more heating pads than the entire neighborhood combined.
* You plan a party because you had two meals and hadn't been in pain all day.
* Your nightstand looks like a medicine cabinet.
* The speed dial on your telephone contains the numbers of your general physician, GI, OB/GYN, and four of your favorite surgeons.
* The phrase "They've got guts!" makes you think twice.
* You get frustrated because your medical dictionary doesn't have an entry for "adjuvant."
* You can recite all the anti-adhesion gels by heart, as well as their manufacters.
* Your idea of a dream vacation getaway is going sightseeing in beautiful Germany on your way to a world-renowned specialist.
* You're the first person friends and family approach when they need the correct spelling of "colonoscopy" or "laparotomy."