Thanks to David for helping to clear the confusion that might arise
between the two barrier products!
While we can understand clinical trials, the FDA, and the fact that the
jury is still out regarding bona fide results of the SprayGel on patients,
we must also acknowledge the fact that it seems the US always lags
behind in approving products that may restore life to a very ill person.
We have all seen stories on 20-20, 60 minutes and other televised
programs where a desperate American citizen is forced to look beyond
our country, our medical system, etc, to find help for their particular
medical situation. I recall only months ago an American family facing the
fact that their son would soon lose his life due to an inoperable brain
tumor.
(Inoperable by US standards).
The parents searched for help elsewhere and found it in another country.
The segment was fascinating and one of the top neurologist
in the US marveled that the young boy was saved by the procedure performed
outside our country; a procedure that the foreign doctor explained as
"not that difficult to perform." He stated that they had faced these type of
tumors before and decided they must find a new entrance to the brain, rather
than the standard "learned" approach. The US surgeons advised the parents
against the surgery, stating they would only hasten his death, they also
doubted
the procedure would work. The parents chose the operation. (what did they
have to lose)?
At the end of the segment, the foreign doctor was offering to teach the US
surgeons the life saving procedure.
I agree with David, NOTHING IS FOOLPROOF.......not even life. I have to
disagree
(sorry David) with the statement "even the best doctor with the best
techniques
will produce adhesions." This is true of US doctors and US procedures.
Melissa
is living proof that the 2 US surgeries caused further adhesion growth in
her
body. I disagree that it is true of "even the best doctor."
I have a file full of photos of horrible adhesions ravaging my daughter's
body.
I also have complete photos of an adhesion free body after
going to Germany. Dr. Kruschinski was the performing surgeon and delivered
to
me photos of an adhesion free abdomen, pelvic, liver, diaphragm, stomach,
etc.
on Melissa's second look. .......the photos reveal there are no adhesions
and in
fact the bowel looks shiny and healthy!
I also have my daughter......true it has only been a short time since her
surgery,
but to date, we are seeing a new person that is out of bed, not throwing up,
not
holding her head in pain, her bowels are functioning, she no longer
complains of stomach pain....she is able to eat, work in her yard, go to
baseball
games, and is starting to join in the game of LIFE once again. For this I am
forever
grateful to God and the skill, talent, compassion, and hard work that Dr.
Kruschinski
has put forth to bring total health to the adhesion sufferer.
I appreciate David's caution, as we must all weigh the evidence, the posts,
the
circumstances, the products, the doctors, etc........he is right......no one
has a
magic wand..............but, we must remember, there will never be a magic
wand.
I was not looking for a magic wand, I was looking for a doctor that would
acknowledge
that Melissa had no life, that she was not a hypochondriac, she was not
depressed,
she did not have Crohn's, she did not have IBS, she did not have spastic
colon,
and, and, and,.............she was sick.....sick from ARD.
We must use caution, but we cannot throw the baby out with the bath water.
There is
hope. We found it in Dr. Kruschinski and by traveling to Germany.
Sincerely,
Karen Steward