I was so glad to hear you are home safe and sound. I pray for a speedy recovery and an end to you pain. Dr. Korell sounds like a wonderful person. How many doctors do we know that would take the time to pick up their patients at the airport? I was also excited to hear you got to meet everyone in person. I am sure they enjoyed seeing you too.
Take care and keep us posted on your recovery.
-- Kathy L.At Mon, 6 Nov 2000, lbrown@utvinternet.com wrote: > >Hi all > >I'm home. We just got home last night after two weeks in Germany. Home >is BLISS. > >Anyway I'll try to fill you in as quickly as I can. > >We arrived in Germany on Sunday 22nd October. Our flight landed in >Dusseldorf at about 8.30pm and we expected to go to try to find a taxi >to take us to the Hospital. > >GUESS WHAT! There was a man standing with a sign saying "Lynne Brown". >We went over to him and he introduced himself as Dr Korell. We were >really flabbergasted (I don't know if you know this word in the States, >it means shocked). Anyway we loaded our luggage into his car and it was >then that we found out there is no speed limited in Germany!!!!!! > >Anyway he took us to our apartment and showed us about. > >I had to go to the Hospital on the Monday for a talk with him and bloods >etc. Boy do those steroids cause problems there. > >The surgery was on the Tuesday 24th October. Dr Korell found "severe >adhesions in the middle and lower abdomen. Complete adhesiolysis of >small and large bowels, uterus and right ovary. Especially on the left >side severe attached between uterus, round liagment and the bladder." > >To cut a long story short he freed all the organs. Massive rinsing with >Ringer's lactate solutions and intallation of Intergel. > >He came to see my husband and I on the Tuesday night and explained what >had happened. > >On the Wednesday morning I woke up not feeling as good as I thought I >should have. As the day went on the pain in my left side got worse and >we all put it down to operation pain. On the following Monday Dr Korell >did a scan and found a cyst on the left side. He thought it was filled >with blood or some of the intergel. > >Last Thursday, 2nd November, I had the second look carried out. "No >recurrence of adhesions were found to the abdominal wall. Only severe >attached from the uterus to the pelvic sidewall in left lower abdomen. >Again adhesiolysis was performed by bipolar coagulation and sharp >dissection. Covering of the defect with one Interceed TC7 net" (These >are Dr Korell's words in his report). > >On the Friday 3rd November I got a kidney infection (great eh!) Dr >Korell put me on pretty strong anti-biotics and I'm starting to feel >better. > >How do I feel now? My left side is uncomfortable and sore. Dr Korell >has said that we won't know for a couple of months how things will be >because my tummy is swollen with all the cutting that went on. > >I'm just waiting and hoping and praying. > >We met Bev, Mary P, Helen D and her husband,Laura N and Paul on >Saturday. That was sooooooooo nice. To be able to give these friends I >had talked to so much a hug. They are really lovely people (which I'm >sure you all know) and Iv'e left my heart with them as they face surgery >this week. > >Dr Korell is an absolute gentleman with a laugh (or it's more like a >chuckle I will never forget) He knows his stuff and he made me feel that >he really cared about taking my pain away. > >I'm tired now so I'll cut this short. > >Thank you all for your prayers and messages. Our e-mail went "Wonky" >before we went so I don't know if I got all your messages. I got yours >Cindy, thankyou. > >I'll talk to you tomorrow when hopefully we'll all have heard some word >from Germany on the surgeries. > >Talk to you soon, my very special friends. > >Lynne.