At 07:17 PM 11/5/00 -0600, you wrote:
>On 5 Nov 2000, at 17:19, Mary Wade wrote:
>> This last week I have been taking a heating pad to bed with me and have felt
>> much better than usual in the AM. Someone needs to invent a battery
>> operated heating pad to wrap around our middles that we can wear all day!
>> GI specialists always seem to push the high fiber diet but I agree that the
>> low residue diet seems to work better with adhesions.
>
>The heating pad helped me a lot this summer. However, you have to
>be careful falling asleep with it. I ended up with a major burn that
>blistered and left a large scar. I think I probably got the pad folded
>or caught under me somehow.
>
>Of course, they tell you that and of course I ignore any good advice.
>
>At the worst of my problems before surgery this summer, I slept in a
>recliner with the heating pad on top of me.
>
>Kate
>Kate Murphy
>katemm@mindspring.com
>