>----- Original Message -----
From: "Karla" <ifirgit@new.rr.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 6:22 PM
Subject: no sympathy needed
> I just wanted to add that I am not out looking for sympathy. I have a
> big purpose in reposting my quilt story....stopping you all from going
> through all of these surgical procedures with physicians who don't know
> what they are doing.
>
> I am going to be very blunt and honest...and my butt will probably be
> kicked off of this list for saying what I am going to say...but it is MY
> opinion and it needs to be said. This is not an attack on anyone. Too
> often we have new people come to this list looking for doctors to help
> them out. God Bless them all! But, without them knowing that their
> really aren't any doctors out there that can help they wonder aimlessly
> from one doctor to the next. Surgery after surgery. Soon they will all
> end up like me!!!! Don't do it! Save up the money and go to Germany or
> to the adhesion clinic in Scranton....its well worth it. You may not
> get the cure you are looking for, but after you have been there you will
> no that you've been to the best. People have to realize that each
> surgery they go through makes their condition worse. The only answer is
> to stop having the surgery...until they can go to the best. And
> hopefully they can get everything taken care of with those doctors. I
> have only heard of a few individuals who continue to have problems after
> making these visits...so to me its time and money well spent.
>
> I suppose you are all saying...."then why is she looking to have another
> surgery". I don't have a choice. Mine isn't about adhesions
> anymore...although adhesions caused the problem. When I sit back and
> count the number of surgeries I have had in my lifetime its probably
> real close to fifty. All because I was so ignorant that I trusted in
> the doctors to do what was right. Now, if I don't have surgery I will
> die...and the dying part is getting closer and closer with each
> hospitalization for infection.
>
> Don't do it! Do your research and get to the best doctor available. I
> don't care if you like your doctor or not...I liked mine!!! I know that
> none of you like to be in pain...me either, but pain is a lot better
> than being dead!
>
> God Bless!
> Karla
>