Hi Cathy! 
WOW Cathy! I am impressed, THAT Hydra IS the perfect mascot....... I have even copied the details to add to my files! Isn't that just what adhesions are....cutting out to double the number yikes!
love & warm gentle hugs 
Jo (Australia)
>From: anonymous@medispecialty.com (cathy:-)
>Reply-To: adhesions@adhesions.org
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
>Subject: I think we need an IAS mascot
>Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:57:47 -0600
>
>The first time I ever heard of adhesions was when I was researching pms
>and I read a book Listening To Your Hormones by ------- She talks about
>her lifelong medical problems in the book, including that she was having
>ovarian pain and they kept doing biopsies to see what was wrong. Many
>years later she became convinced that the pain was originally the benign
>ovulation pain called mittelschmerz, but after enough surgery it turned
>into adhesion pain. When I read her description of how each surgery to
>knock down the adhesions would instead leave her with more adhesions
>than she started with, I immediately thought of the hydra. This is the
>beast in greek mythology where each time you lop off one of its heads
>two more grow back in its place.
>
>I found this link with a picture:
>
>http://web.ukonline.co.uk/conker/archive/mythical-beasts.htm
>
>Here is the text:
>
>THE HYDRA
>
>Each month we will be looking at a different mythical beast. This month
>it is the hydra. As you can see the hydra was quite a monster.
>
>The Hydra lived in the swamps near Lerna in Greece. It had the body of
>a snake and many heads. One head could not be hurt by any weapon and if
>you cut off any of the other heads two would grow in its place. The
>Hydra's breath was deadly too. The poor people of Lerna were terrorised
>by it.
>
>It was finally killed by the Greek hero Hercules with the help of his
>nephew Iolaus. Hercules kept bashing the Hydra's heads with his club,
>but then they kept growing. Iolaus saved the day by holding a lighted
>torch to the headless necks before the new heads could grow. In the end
>Hercules was left with the one head that couldn't be killed with a
>weapon. Hercules hit the head with his club, then tore it off with his
>bare hands and buried it under a stone.
>
>--
>Clearly we need a Hercules and/or Iolaus to figure out how to slay adhesions!
>
>cathy :-)
>