Hi Shana
From: toni welsh (twelsh1@hotmail.com)
Tue Apr 25 09:42:31 2000
Glad to have you with us, the girls and a few fellows who understand us.
I have been struggling with adhesions and pain for many years, and I am
beginning to think that there is no end to it. But talking to the girls
here is the only way I feel better. It feels good to know you are not
alone, and there are many of us that cannot find the help we need. It
helps to listen to each other.
I feel like the gyn I go to thinks I am a hypocondriac at times, I know
he understands, he just does not know what to do for me, he has found a
general surgeon who wil operate on me, but the dr all tell me I cannot
have a lap. It has to be another laparotomy, they say the tracar they
use is too dangerous as the adhesions are so dense and extensive, and
the last surgery was so hard on me. I do go to pain clinic, but do not
like taking all the meds they give, last week they added Ultram, and I
had a reaction on it. I have been trying to stop or cut down on meds
myself, but I guess I need to go right back on them. I will not have
surgery if I can wait til they come out with a barrier they can say WILL
work for the prevention of adhesions, I do not want to set myself up for
bowel obstructions, the last lap done was in august 98 the gyn said he
could not get in to far, and that what he could see, was the fact that
the adhesions were so bad after 4 months of my last surgery, they could
not distinquish where my bowels were, and that they could not believe I
never obstructed then. During the laparotomy in Sept 98 the transverse
colon was stuck to the pelvic floor, and was smothering the small bowel.
He said it was like someone poured ceazy glue in the pelvis, but I never
obstructed, that is a terrible fear because that killed my mother,
gangrene had set in and they could not save her, and that was only four
years ago.
I have talkeds too much, I have to go see my father in law, he has
stopped eating now four days, and they had to start liquid morphine last
night, it should not be long now. I ahve beeb so busy with him, and
cannot understand why God is not taking him yet, he is not ready for him
yet, I guess!
Love to all,
Toni
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