>----- Original Message -----
From: "Karla" <ifirgit@new.rr.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: Robin
> Millie,
>
> It is in your best interest to give your body time to heal before they
will
> go in and try an adhesiolysis. Your body really needs to recover before
they
> even can determine that the pain you are having is adhesions and not
> surgical. I have often had to wait at least six months between surgeries
> before the doctor would consider going in. It doesn't matter how much
pain
> you are in....just if it is an emergency situation.
>
> You will be amazed at how you can wait! I joined this group in November
of
> 1999. I told Bev that there was no way that I could wait until February
to
> have my surgery. I knew that I would die before than....or that if I had
to
> suffer anymore I would kill myself. Next thing I knew it was April and
> still no surgery....then July and while I was scheduled for surgery on the
> 12th...I had problems with cardiac and respiratory arrest and the surgery
> was aborted. At that time I just wanted to die...because there was NO way
> in hell I could continue to livein the pain I was in. I have rather
> impatiently waited for the surgery to be rescheduled....and the first one
> has.....April 2nd. I have known about it since the beginning of January
> and feel that there is no way that I can handle the pain until that time.
> And the pain is intense...even the morphine is not helping. No, I cannot
> make it that long....I will die....but somehow I do make it.....and you
can
> too!
>
> God Bless!
>
> Karla
>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Millie" <milliem@citlink.net>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
> <adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 3:20 PM
> Subject: Re: Robin
>
> > Dawn,
> > I am going to see what I can do tomorrow, if I hold up that long. This
> > morning I was so severely constipated that I thought I'd die. I took a
> > Dulcolax suppository, which helped some, and 3 Tablespoons of Haley's M
O,
> > with water. I had a little loose stool this afternoon. My insides hurt
so
> > bad, I just have to lie down. The e.r. Dr. the other night was very
> > smart-mouthed to me. I told him it looks like I will have to find new
Drs.
> > I feel so bad that when I went to Scranton to see Dr. Redan, who is very
> > nice- that he felt he couldn't help me right now. I hurried and got the
> > paperwork faxed to his office, along with the medical records he wanted,
> > only to be turned away for now. I don't know what to do, because the
> ob/gyn
> > did nothing when I saw her on Feb,8. Here all this time has gone by. I'm
> so
> > bitter and disgusted. I so wish I was one of those lucky people that Dr.
> > Redan could help. Nothing is going right for me.
> > Millie
>> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <Cheechiebomb@aol.com>
> > To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
> > <adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 11:02 AM
> > Subject: Re: Robin
> >
> > > Millie
> > >
> > > I think I am about at thesame point you are no one has done
> anything
> > so
> > > far I can not eat anything I drink alot of water to try and keep my
> bowels
> > > moving a little it had been 6 days and finally yesterday morning I had
a
> > very
> > > small one but that is very painful and it is very difficult to pass
gas
> at
> > > all. Right now I try to make it day by day some days are sever and
some
> > days
> > > aren"t so bad. I am really hoping I can get a referral back to the dr
> that
> > > was helping me.Can you get one from an er dr?
> > >
> > > Dawn
> > >
> > > to the unsubscribe form at
http://www.adhesions.org/forums/listcmds.htm
> >
>