Re: pain
From: cathy:- (anonymous@medispecialty.com)
Tue Jan 22 19:12:37 2002
At Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Brenda wrote:
>
>...I do not want to live in pain and also don't want to keep
>going through surgeries.
Really this is not to pick on you Brenda, but you SO succinctly summed
up the medical Big Lie about adhesions. In real life, the choice is not
between a) living in constant pain, and b) constantly going through
surgeries. In real life, if you are an "adhesion former" and your
adhesions cause you pain, then your choices are between a) living in
constant pain, and b) living in constant pain AND constantly going
through surgeries.
These doctors say things like, "well the only thing we can do is go in
and cut them out." And they are simply lying to you when they imply that
cutting them out is going to help. Ok, in the 10 minutes after they
finish cutting the adhesions you have fewer of them than you started the
surgery with, but as they wheel you down the hallway to the recovery
room THE ADHESIONS ARE FORMING UP AGAIN!!! You see, the little piece of
information that they are trying to hide from you is that your adhesions
are NOT caused by some random freak of nature, and usually not some
disease or infection. They are caused by the surgeon's scalpel cutting
tissue. They are caused by talc on the surgical gloves. They are
caused by rubbing the abdominal tissues with surgical sponges. They are
caused by the surgeon's failure to get every tiny little blood vessel to
stop bleeding as the incision is closed. Adhesions are, in almost all
cases, caused by one or more FAILURES of the surgeon. Sometimes it is a
failure to do something that is under the surgeon's control (for example
using gloves with talc or dry sponges.) Sometimes it is the failure to
do something impossible (for example it's impossible to do surgery
without cutting you.) But failure is still FAILURE, and doctors don't
like to admit that they FAILED. They especially don't like to admit
that because they FAILED something terrible happened.
--
cathy :-)
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