Re: Update from surgery on March 3 2009

From: LOU COOPER (louc829@gmail.com)
Thu Mar 5 15:50:06 2009


LINDA, IS THE CINE MRI IN USE YET, IF YES WHICH HOSPITAL OR CLINIC ARE THE TEST DONE Lou

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Linda <lindahalford@comcast.net> wrote: > Hi Kris,
>
> Who was your surgeon and where is he located?  I called Dr. Semerztides'
> office today.  The assistant said he uses Evicel (FDA approved) to prevent
> adhesions from returning.  It's a spray substance.  She said his success
> rate if 50 to 55 percent.  That doesn't give me a lot of hope.  It would be
> good if they used the Cine MRI to detect the adhesions and then do a second
> Cine MRI after surgery to see if the adhesions are gone.
>
> I feel like I have a golf ball size growth on my right side.  I wish there
> was a doctor close to Jacksonville, FL so I wouldn't have to travel so far.
> Dr. Redan is 3 hours away but after having two surgeries with him, I'd like
> to go to a different doctor.
>
> Take care and God Bless.
>
> Linda
>

>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jetstamp
> To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 10:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Update from surgery on March 3 2009
> At Wed, 4 Mar 2009, jetstamp wrote:
>>
>>At Wed,  4 Mar 2009, Kris wrote:
>>>
>>>Hi, all! I just got home from the hospital after my adhesion surgery...
>>> Additionally, he found a golf ball size "chocolate
>>>cyst" on my right ovary.    The
>>>right sided areas where he removed the adhesions from were the areas I
>>>was having most of my pain.  I also had pain on my lower right side,
>>>which is explained by the ovarian cyst.  The surgeon told my mom after
>>>the surgery that both the adhesions and the cyst cause extreme pain,
>>>Don't we all know that too well???  I thought of all of you who suffer
>>> from this and
>>>was wishing each of you were there having surgery as well! I'll keep
>>>posting to let you know how things progress....
>>>
>>>--
>>>Kris
>>>
>
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