>----- Original Message -----
From: "Kari" <sveglfamily@msn.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS" <adhesions@dns.obgyn.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: ADHESION RECURRENCE
> Hi,
> My name is Kari, and I am actually writing about my mom. She wants some
> support badly at this time. She had sugery due to diverticulosis in
> 1991 and has 5 attacks of ahesions on her bowels. All with sugery
> following to relieve her pain. Post-surgery on/or around 1994 she
> stayed in the hospital for 17 days. She again had it in 98, 02 and now
> 03. Last year she went in with the excruciating pain you described as
> an emergency and they admitted her immediately and went into surgery.
> Got released 5 days later and ended up back in for another 5 days. This
> year shes been having the pains on and off so she scheduled an appt with
> the surgeon and he decided "lets do it laproscopically" while you are
> well and see if we can do somethign about it. (since everytime has been
> an emergency so far). Well the surgery was supposed to be 2 hours long
> and out comes the surgeon 5 hours later he said the adhesions were so
> bad he couldnt see thru anything with just the camera and ended up
> opening her all the way up again. She is very frustrated at this point
> and would like to talk to others with this problem. She is wondering if
> a referrel out to say the mayo clinic would come up with something at
> this point and time. Her surgeon has already told her that her bowels
> are so thin and weak that he can never operate again unless it is a dire
> emergency. Well thanks for any respose we get. I will pass them on to
> her.
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