>----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynda Esparza" <lindylu@nitline.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 9:11 PM
Subject: adhesions
> This is my first time posting, so if I don't do this right please be
> patient. My name is Lynda and I live in Indiana. Six weeks ago I went
> in for a minor laporscopic procedure, six hours later I came to only to
> discover an incision from my naval to my pubic bone and another from one
> hip accross to the other. Further investigation revealed a
> colostomy!!!!
> When I came out of my morphine induced coma my Dr.told me that she had
> never seen such adhesions in an abdomen and my bowel was so friable when
> she seperated it, it perfed, hence the colostmy which I am having
> reversed at the end of Dec. I'm just now getting over the anger and
> depression of the surgery. I'm only 36 years old and this was the
> second time I've been lysed.
> Anyway I just wanted to tell my story and I would love to hear from
> others. I'm getting scared about the next surgery.
> Thank you,
> Lynda
>