>----- Original Message -----
From: "Sally Grigg" <lostcst@mcn.org>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 5:01 PM
Subject: To Rosie from Sally
> Dear Rosie, Hi, I'm Sally. Welcome back to the board. I'm not a doctor so
I
> can't say whether or not you have adhesions and doctors can't say either
unless
> they do a laproscopic surgery. There is no test yet available. But it does
sound
> like you do have them.
>
> I don't know what your future holds, nor do I know what mine holds. We can
only
> hope and pray. I've had three laproscopic adhesion removal surgeries and
they
> have grown back almost immediately each time. But at least they didn't cut
off
> my bowel. This last time, there was a rope kind of adhesion wrapped around
my
> small intestine and that was removed which saved me from having emergency
> surgery at our local rural hospital.
>
> As you probably know you need to go to experts, not just any old nice,
guy, well
> educated ob/gyn. There is a lot of information on the adhesion site
> http://www.adhesions.org Please go there and read the quilt and add your own
story.
> You can get a lot of information from reading the back e-mails, especially
from
> Helen Dynda and Beverly. Look at the titles of the e-mails. You need to do
a lot
> of research. Good luck and please keep posting. With kindest regards,
Sally
> Grigg
>