At Tue, 13 Nov 2001, clare wrote:
>
>Dear Kath:
>
>I did a search on Yahoo on "pelvic clearance" (with quotations around
>it). While I did find the article that you referred to, most of the
>sites were for cancer, mainly ovarian cancer. This treatment that your
>Dr. is recommending appears (to me) to be a treatment often used for
>advanced ovarian cancer - they remove many organs so that if the cancer
>has microscopically spread they get most or all of it.
>
>Now I'm not a doctor, and I don't even pretend to know anything about
>adhesions, but I pray that you'll get yourself to an adhesion specialist
>before you do something irreversible.
>
>It is only suspected that I have adhesions, but if I do they were caused
>by a laparotomy to remove an organ. The idea that a major surgery with
>a large incision and removal of organs will help a person with adhesions
>just doesn't fly with me. Kath, I think you really need to get a second
>and possibly third opinion before you do something that will definetly
>change your life, but maybe not for the better.
>
>I know and understand that you want the pain to stop - or at least
>improve - but please listen to the women on this forum with their
>"retro-scopes". Please go to Karla's story on the adhesions quilt, read
>it, and when you're done, please read it again....
>
>--
>csheedy
>
-- csheedy