Re: Christy -- your son
From: Christina (angelnstix@msn.com)
Sat Mar 9 09:12:00 2002
At Fri, 8 Mar 2002, cathy:- wrote:
>
>At Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Christina wrote:
>>
>>I lost my son to cancer in 1994 he went
>>through so many surgeries and I cannot imagine the adhesions he had!!
>>Nobody mentioned it and of course he was only 3 so how could he ever
>>begin to explain?? Just makes me sick and so very sad!!
>
>First of all, I'm terribly sorry for the loss of your son. I simply
>cannot imagine the depth of your grief...
>
>I think you should not worry, though, that he might have had adhesions.
>You see one of the many mysteries of adhesions is that fully 90% of the
>people who have them have no symptoms or problems at all, and as for
>people who have very serious pain it is probably less than 1%. (Bet you
>didn't know you were a member of such a rarefied elite!) And even of
>people who have problems it is common that there is an interval of years
>before the problems show up. I had a c-section 8 years ago, and didn't
>start to have pain until about a year ago. (Although I suspect several
>vague little intestinal problems, and posterior baby I had in a grueling
>vbac 4 years ago, might have been caused by adhesions.) Plus there is
>the fact that you are the mom, and I'm sure that you would have known
>because moms just know these things.
>
>--
>cathy :-)
>
Hi Cathy, thanky you so very much for the kind words. You are right, I
would have known. Hugs, Christy