At Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Chantale wrote:
>
>Ok I know that I have posted quite a bit in the last week but please
>bear with me as I am new to this diagnosis and trying to understand. My
>question is has anyone had surgery for their adheasions under a local or
>spinal anesthetic. In other words has anyone had their surgerys awake.
>My delima is that I am to have surgery in Sept but every other time I
>have had general anesthetic My lung has collapsed. I am wondering about
>surgery awake. I think that my surgery will be quite long and they may
>have to do lots in my upper abdomen. Im scared about the possibility of
>having to be awake. If anyone has any experience with this please send
>me a message or a email.
>
>Thanks and Healing wishes to all
>Chantale