At Mon, 19 Mar 2001, TediBrHugs@aol.com wrote:
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>Dear Friends,
>I guess everyone get's these letters, so here I am writing and hoping for
>some comfort and help.
>It's been a long few weeks, few months, few years. The doctors have just
>figured out that I have adhesions, but there doesn't seem to be one single dr
>out there who believes they cause pain or that is willing to do adhesiolysis.
>So I continue to suffer. Things got so bad this past weekend I went to the
>ER and complained of a backache just to get something for the pain. Isn't
>that retarded? Why should I have to lie? Why can't they understand that this
>pain is real?
>I would love to get some adhesion pen pals. I am 38, have had a complete
>hysterectomy 10 years ago, an appendectomy, my gallbladder is gone, I've had
>ovarian cancer w/mets to the uterus and cervix which led to the hysterectomy,
>and in total 13 surgeries in 15 years.
>I am the mother of 5 children. 3 are mine and 2 are mine by marriage. We
>have 2 grandkids with my step son and 3 grandkids with my daughter and
>another grandchild by my next to youngest son.
>I have the adhesions, CFS and Fibro, they are all inter-related I am told.
>Please tell me I am not nuts that this does get better! I don't know how
>much of this run around I can take going from dr to dr to dr going through
>the same tests over and over again. I am afraid to eat because of bowel
>obstructions (been hospitalized once for that and that was enough). I have
>horrible backaches and migraines from the adhesions on my spine and now I
>just don't know what to do. My family is afraid to say or do anything
>because I am not the same woman I was. Adhesions are ruining my life.
>If anyone out there understands where I am coming from I would love to hear
>form you.
>Missy
-- Mary Wade