welcome home ladies!
congratulations on your new grandson Bev. I hope all of you ladies who
had surgeries are feeling better. I am continuing to pray for all you
(all of us).
Helen/Bev I have a few questions that I have been holding onto until you
came home. when the big 3 (Drs. Reich, Redan & Korell) do their
adhesiolysis procedures, do they just cut the adhesions (lyse them) or
do they actually attempt to remove them all? I have always wondered why
my ob/gyn in my previous surgeries did not try to REMOVE them. it would
make sense to me to remove them.
the analogy I keep thinking of is: if you only cut a spider's web, of
course the spider will just mend it, whereas if you remove it totally,
perhaps the spider will leave. at any rate, it will take alot more time
& effort to recreate! lol I know, weird. in fact, I was totally shocked
to find out she only cut them.
also, in a few instances (including Mary & Robin) Dr. Korell said that
they might have to come back for another surgery in a year to be
completely adhesion free. does he plan on charging them full price for
the surgeries again?
if the PA doctors do decide to start doing 2nd look surgeries, will they
be charging substantially more money? they are already quite a bit more
expensive than Dr. Korell.
do any of the doctors have any idea why some of the ladies surgeries
were unsuccessful? what are these ladies to do? I feel so bad for
Chrissie, Lynne, Helen C., Jodi & Mary. how horrible for them to still
be suffering.
when is Dr. Wiseman going to be able to give us some statistics about
how long after their surgeries the ladies have been pain free?
after each of my surgeries, it takes about 6 months to completely heal
and feel 100% pain free. then I feel great for about 1 & 1/2 years,
then it all starts up again. by the 3rd or 4th year I am in pretty bad
shape again. I just got over a partial bowel obstruction (my 1st
fortunately). my adhesions always attach my sigmoid colon to my inner
abdominal wall. I am trying to postpone my surgery as long as possible.
I feel fortunate that I am not in severe pain every day. some days are
good, some days are bad.
sorry this letter had so many questions & dragged on for so long.
I love you all & appreciate this forum so much. I am praying for the
day when they will have a complete understanding & cure for our disease.
Love,
Cindy