>----- Original Message -----
From: "cathy:-" <anonymous@medispecialty.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: pain
> At Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Brenda wrote:
> >
> >...I do not want to live in pain and also don't want to keep
> >going through surgeries.
>
> Really this is not to pick on you Brenda, but you SO succinctly summed
> up the medical Big Lie about adhesions. In real life, the choice is not
> between a) living in constant pain, and b) constantly going through
> surgeries. In real life, if you are an "adhesion former" and your
> adhesions cause you pain, then your choices are between a) living in
> constant pain, and b) living in constant pain AND constantly going
> through surgeries.
>
> These doctors say things like, "well the only thing we can do is go in
> and cut them out." And they are simply lying to you when they imply that
> cutting them out is going to help. Ok, in the 10 minutes after they
> finish cutting the adhesions you have fewer of them than you started the
> surgery with, but as they wheel you down the hallway to the recovery
> room THE ADHESIONS ARE FORMING UP AGAIN!!! You see, the little piece of
> information that they are trying to hide from you is that your adhesions
> are NOT caused by some random freak of nature, and usually not some
> disease or infection. They are caused by the surgeon's scalpel cutting
> tissue. They are caused by talc on the surgical gloves. They are
> caused by rubbing the abdominal tissues with surgical sponges. They are
> caused by the surgeon's failure to get every tiny little blood vessel to
> stop bleeding as the incision is closed. Adhesions are, in almost all
> cases, caused by one or more FAILURES of the surgeon. Sometimes it is a
> failure to do something that is under the surgeon's control (for example
> using gloves with talc or dry sponges.) Sometimes it is the failure to
> do something impossible (for example it's impossible to do surgery
> without cutting you.) But failure is still FAILURE, and doctors don't
> like to admit that they FAILED. They especially don't like to admit
> that because they FAILED something terrible happened.
>
> --
> cathy :-)
>