Re: Surgery again? I need your advice!!-Peggy...Tests!
From: Peggy (pklippe1@nycap.rr.com)
Tue Aug 10 06:13:16 1999
At Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Valerie Gates wrote:
>
>At Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Peggy wrote:
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>>At Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Valerie Gates wrote:
>>>
>>>Well, here I am faced with the difficult decision of whether or not to
>>>have surgery again! I swore 8 1/2 years ago that I wouldn't let anyone
>>>cut on me again unless I was dying! Well, I'm not dying...(feels like it
>>>sometimes) but I'm seriously considering surgery again. The tests I had
>>>Friday showed a partial bowel obstruction due to adhesions kinking the
>>>bowel on my left side. I'm out of sick leave because I've been sick
>>>with this stuff so much this year, and I really don't know what to do!!
>>>For over a week and a half, I have been so miserable that I am only able
>>>to lay around and sleep. I have so much I need to do.....so many things
>>>I'm supposed to be.....and all I can do is nothing because of my stupid
>>>gut!! I'm supposed to get up tomorrow and go to work and sit at a
>>>computer all day.......I don't know if I can do it! WHAT DO I DO? Please
>>>offer any advice you might have!
>>>
>>>Valerie
>>>
>>>--
>>>Valerie Gates
>>
>>Valerie,Sorry but I forgot to ask you,How did you handle the tests that
>>you had on Friday?How was the barium? I had never had the other
>>test.Please let me know.
>>"FRIENDS THAT STICK TOGETHER" PEGGY
>>>
>I got through them Peggy, they were pretty bad. The Colonoscopy was by
>far the worse.....the worse test I've ever had. They actually look at
>the inside of your intestines with a camera....and I'll leave it to your
>imagination as to how they get that camera in there!! Thanks again for
>your caring!!
>
>--
>Valerie Gates
>
Valerie, I know how they get the camera in.I just had a colonoscopy on
July 29th
Peggy
p.s I thought it was a sigmoidasope{sp?} that you had?