At Tue, 11 Jun 2002, D. Williams wrote:
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>I am about to undergo my 17th surgery in about 3 years. This one is to
>remove scar tissue and repair a second hernia.
>I had a hysterectomy and bladder repair in Aug of 99.
>The Dr used a supra pubic cath, for the bladder repair, ( still haven't
>figured out why).
>A few months later I had what felt like an incisional hernia, they went
>in for a repair and found not a hernia but 14 pounds of staph infection.
>The staph infection was antibiotic resistant, and took 14 surgeries to
>finally get it removed. I had 2 other surgeries for repairing some
>damages done, and now another hernia and scar tissue removal ( I am
>assuming it is scar tissue, since the other surgeries they had to cut
>large quantities of scar tissue out.)
>I am trying to find away that can help cut down on the scar tissue and
>adhesions, anyone have any answers to this please let me know.
>I have had more then enough of these surgeries and am starting to wonder
>if we are going to have to go in and cut away every few months to keep
>the pain levels tolerable.
>
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>D. Williams
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