I am sorry you have to go through this. How old is your daughter?
-- Karla
>----- Original Message ----- From: CConrad8@aol.com To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS" <adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 8:39 AM Subject: need advice, 12 yr old has intest. kink/adhesion
> hi, > my daughter had meckels diverticulum surgery 3 years ago, lost 3 feet of her > intestines then last dec she was operated on for a adhesion. They admitted > her to the hospital 2 days ago and a cat scan shows a knuckle kink with some > atypical air in the sigmoid colon. She hasn't eaten or drank for 3 days now. > She is having pain of 10 with the waves of pain that mimic labor > contractions. She has no fever, wbc normal, red blood count alittle high and > threeway abdomen x-rays show normal. She has vomited some but not like the > past 2 surgeries and her wbc always shot up which made surgery a easy > decision. She has been on morpheine and phenotol for the whole time she has > been here and she is still in alot of pain. The pain meds are making her > dilerious and just feeling bad too. It is thanksgiving and it is so hard to > see my daughter like this. The surgeon was here last night and didn't even > take his hands out of his pockets to feel her abdomen. I have a friend that > has a son that had the same problem, and his blood count was normal, xray > normal etc, had waves of pain for 2 days on morpheine, even had bowel > movements and they had surgery and they found 12 feet of intestines gangrene, > how do i know this is not happening to my daughter, i know surgery will cause > more adhesions but she can't go on this way either. Any
suggestions??????? > i have my laptop here at the hospital so i can get your mail quick. > thanks, cathy >