>----- Original Message -----
From: "Debbie J. Smith" <trismiss@adelphia.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS" <adhesions@forum.obgyn.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 10:17 AM
Subject: Thank God......Hellooooooo
> Oh my Gosh I am so thrilled to have found this web site and all of you!!
> Please know that this is the first time in 4 years of terrible suffering
> that I truly (crying hard)know
> my diagnosis. So many doctors have told me such hurtful and ridiculous
> nonsense!(even that I was suffering from a "birth
> defect" the MRI's "proved it" can you believe that???)
> My third ob/gyn claimed endometiosis and scheduled a total
> hysterectomy.....this took place only three weeks ago on the
> 26th of January. A procedure that normally took only one hour....it
> took my doctor almost four hours to cut my uterus away from my bladder
> because he said they were "meshed together like superglue" from
> adhesions from
> my previous C-sections. Of course he poked holes in my bladder and had
> to suture that up as well (I just got the catheter out) By the
> way....pathology showed not one cell
> of endometiosis.....but I'm sterile now anyway....thanks doc
> Please help me.... because now that I know what my trouble was I am so
> scared that my symptoms will return tenfold due to this
> hysterectomy.....I have two fantastic kids that are depending on me
> (crying really hard now)....
> I thank each and every one of you who have taken the time to read this
> ....it felt really good to write....
>
> God Bless,
> Debbie Smith
>