>>----- Original Message -----
>From: Geri
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
>Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 8:32 PM
>Subject: Re: ANOTHER CANADIAN HEARD FROM.....
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>Hi Lou...
>My Bowel Perforated in Feb 2000...(What a way to start New Millenium..) complete with Septic Shock and a tempprary colostomy.. and Hartman's Procedure to reconnect bowel in September 2000...
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>Have had 2 Hernia repairs since.. both didn't last... and NOW need a major hernia repair.. (but I am avoiding it...)
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>I have had pain ever since it all healed.. it was delayed closure.. No time to close in the OR as I was dying and needed to get in ICU and on life support..
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>Spent 2 days in ER last week and NOT one Physican mentioned possibility that pain was from Adhesions.. I got a million and one other suggestions including a triage nurse who said I was probably just constipated... and let me sit in a wheelchair for 3 hours...I didn't get any attention until I nearly passed out.....
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>Ontario Health Care has sure changed in the last 20 years... So Sad... A wonderful system gone bad from abuse and fraud....
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>Now if you are low income you can't get good care... It is DEFINITELY a 2 Tier System...(I was a social worker who had to quit work as I was just too sick...)
>
>Geri
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>From: Lou <louc829@gmail.com>=0ATo: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@mail.obgy=
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>From: Lou <louc829@n.net>
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>Sent: Sunday, March 8, 2009 7:10:50 PM
>Subject: Re: ANOTHER CANADIAN HEARD FROM.....
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>At Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Geri wrote:
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>>Hi...
>>I am new to the site, but not the pain...
>>Geri
>>Ontario, Canada
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>>From: LOU COOPER <louc829@gmail.com>==
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>>From: LOU COOPER <louc829@gmail.com>==
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>>From: LOU COOPER <louc82gyn.net>
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>>Sent: Saturday, March 7, 2009 9:54:15 PM
>Subject: Re: The way to go!!!>
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>>From: LOU COOPER <louc82gyn.net>
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>>Hi Donna, from Lou,
>>I am so sorry that you are having so much adhesion pain again, will
>>the Dr. in Germany,
>>be able to help you again,
>>No one should face pain alone, you need the love and support of your
>>family, sometimes things
>>do not work out as we wish and it not your fault, do not go alone.it
>>grieves me that you are suffering
>>alone in silence, this kind of surgery their are no guarantees as you
>>well know by reading the story's
>>on the adhesion site
>>Take care, Lou
>>
>>l
>>On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Donna Johansen <donnajohansen@telus.net> wrote:
>>> Lou,
>>> My surgeon tells me there are surgeons in Canada who will do it
>>> but they are not capable of doing it properly and the adhesions
>>> all come back with a vengeance...which we all know has a good
>>> percentage of being fact. I personally know of one other local
>>> woman (I live in a very small town) who has surgery every 6 months
>>> to take them down. She was desperate a year ago, but I didn't
>>> know about this IAS and can't remember her name. One year ago I
>>> was completely alone in this, thinking I must be the only one
>>> having to live in absolute pain. I know others exist out there,
>>> suffering the only way they know how, in silence.
>>>
>>> Germany was great for me but I am having a real hard time right
>>> now. Three weeks after returning I had a terrible fall. I have
>>> bad arthritis and my knees don't respond like they should. We
>>> were on our sailboat (45 footer) and I fell from the cockpit to
>>> the bottom of the outside walkway. A long fall on a big boat. I
>>> still suffer with the injuries on my arms and legs. Dr. K was
>>> concerned about this fall and I remember reading literature about
>>> falling so close to surgery...that adhesion growth could start
>>> again with the injury. Interesting thing is that I have been on
>>> large doses of Celebrex for the arthritis and my adhesion problems
>>> seemed to be relatively minor last fall to recently. I have
>>> continued to have painful and irritable bowel problems that are
>>> now worse. Over a month ago I couldn't afford the Celebrex and so
>>> have suffered with arthritis and NOW for the last three weeks I AM
>>> SUFFERING WITH ADHESION PAIN AGAIN that keeps me awake or wakes me
>>> before normal people should be awake! I am desperate to try to
>>> reverse it and have doubled up on the Celebrex thinking that is
>>> perhaps the reason for this reversal. I can't tell you how
>>> devastated I am if this doesn't clear up....my family have all
>>> sacrificed so much....I don't think I can tell them so I suffer in
>>> silence.
>>>
>>> Donna
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: adhesions@adhesions.org [mailto:adhesions@adhesions.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Lou
>>> Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 9:14 AM
>>> To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
>>> Subject: Re: The way to go!!!
>>>
>>> At Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Donna Johansen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Canada is the worst...Europe is probably the most aware and has
>>> help
>>>>too. I am not a hateful person but I hate my former surgeon who
>>>>absolutely turned his back on me. Our medical system is mostly
>>> great
>>>>but this is something else!
>>>>Donna
>>>>HI DONNA FROM LOU MAR 7TH 11.48am
>>> I FEEL THIER MUST BE A GOOD ADHESION LAP SCOPE SURGEON IN CANADA
>>> SOMEWHERE, BUT TRYING TO FIND ONE ITS JUST IMPOSSIBLE, YOU SAID
>>> YOU WENT TO GERMANY AND ARE FEELING BETTER.
>>> THE THING I FIND STRANGE ARE WE THE ONLY TWO IN CANADA WITH THIS
>>> PROBLEM,NEVER HEAR ON THE IAS OF MANY OTHERS WRITNG IN ,IF THAY
>>> DID MIGHT FIND OUT MORE ANSWERS. I ENVY THE GIRLS IN THE US, SO
>>> MANY GOOD DRS THAT DO ADHESION SURGERY LOU
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: adhesions@adhesions.org [mailto:adhesions@adhesions.org] On
>>>
>>>>Behalf Of Lou
>>>>Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 1:32 PM
>>>>To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
>>>>Subject: The way to go!!!
>>>>
>>>>HI, THIS IS THE WAY TO GO, IT HAS TO CAME FROM YOU GUYS WHO ARE
>>>>SUFFERING FROM THIS AWFUL PROBLEM + THE ONES THAT HAVE BEEN
>>> CURED,
>>>>THEIR ARE SOME FINE STORY'S TO BE TOLD ( WHAT ABOUT THE IBS
>>> QUIT),IF
>>>>THIS IS NOT TOLD, WHO WILL KNOW WHAT SUFFERING THEIR IS FROM FROM
>>> ABD
>>>>ADHESIONS.
>>>>THE SQUEKEY WHEEL, AND ALL THAT MOST TIMES IT WORKS, BUT IF WE
>>> REMAIN
>>>>SILENT, NOTHING WILL BE DONE, DIVIDED WE FALL UNITED WE RAISE.
>>>>LOOK AT TERRY FOX AND WE ALL KNOW WHAT HE DID AND TODAY ITS STILL
>>> GOING
>>>>ON, TO ALL DRS AND SURGEONS OUT THERE HOW DO NOT KNOW, ADHESIONS
>>> DO
>>>>CAUSE PAIN, PAIN AND MORE PAIN + ALL THE STUFF THAT GOES WITH IT,
>>> THE
>>>>UPSET GUT THAT NEVER GOES AWAY, THE FOODS WE LOVED TO EAT AND NOW
>>> CAN
>>>>NOT.
>>>>ONE DAY YOUR LIFE IS GREAT - THE NEXT YOU CAN BE IN LIVING HELL,
>>> THIS
>>>>CAN HAPPEN TO ANY ONE, YOUNG OR OLD AT ANY TIME, LET HOPE AND
>>> PRAY A
>>>>CURE CAN BE FOUND SOON AND ADHESION WILL BE A THING OF THE PAST,
>>> I ENVY
>>>>YOU GUYS IN THE USA, YOU DO HAVE ALOT OF GOOD SURGEONS THAT DO
>>>>LAP-SCOPE SURGRERY FOR THE REMOVEL OF ADHESIONS, I LIVV IN
>>> CANADA, NOT
>>>>ONE CAN BE FOUND I HAVE TRYED THE WEB, HOSPITALS +++ALL I FIND IS
>>> A
>>>>BRICK WALL, GOOD LUCK TO ALL WHO TRY TO GET ADHESIONS INTO Tn see
>>> http://www.adhesions.org/forums/message.ions.org/forums/message.hswers.yahoo.com
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>HI GERI
>WELCOME, NICE TO HEAR FROM YOU, THAT MAKE'S THREE OF US, I HOPE MORE WILL
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>WRITE IN. ALSO IF YOU DO NOT MIND IF, I ASK YOU, WHEN DID YOU HAVE SURGERY,
>AND WHAT PROBLEMS ARE YOU HAVING WITH ADHESIONS
>ALL THE BEST---LOU
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