I can be sympathetic with your pain. Five years ago I had my appendix
removed laproscopacally, now five years later I find myself with quite a
large problem. April 11th at 4am I went into the ER. I was in the most
severe pain in my abdomen I have ever experienced in my life. It turns
out I had a bowel obstruction due to scar tissue from the surger I had
five years ago. I had to have emergency sugery. It turns out that
three feet of my intestine was just about dead, my surgeon said it was a
"purple almost black color". He did not have to remove any of my
instestine that as soon as he untwisted it and removed the scar tissue
it started getting pink again. I am 21 years old and I don't understand
what has happend to me. All I read is that this is very rare and that
it usually happens to older people. My life has been completely put on
hold. I don't know if it can happen again, the docotors said that it
could but it usually doesn't happend twice. As far as they tell me
there is nothing I can do to prevent it. I am a college student and I
live far from home and I have to admit I'm very scared of this. I want
to live my life like I did before, I want to be "normal". I'm pretty
much left with many questions and no clear answers.