At Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Jo Eslick wrote:
>
>I am so touched and feel so loved to have received so many messages of
>concern, advice, prayers and best wishes from all of you special people
>here on the board and on my aussie adhesions site bombobeach.com
>
>I didn't have my computer for the first week and I pined away with
>loneliness for my wonderful man (my hubby Shane) and my four beautiful
>girls (Emmi, Courtney, Katie & Jess)... on top of that no direct
>contact with any of you! It was almost torture! What saved my misrable
>hide was the great medical team here at the Royal Hospital for Women.The
>doctors and nurses are great....food...well passable, cleaners & porters
>happy & friendly! It is such a different place to be in hospital!!
>
>I will be here all next week, having various tests & scopes done.... we
>know there is a cyst... cul-de-sac so we are trying to avoid that
>option by ruling everything else out everything else before we go there
>(my worst area of adhesions). I guess the doctors are hoping to find
>another explanation for the sudden increase in pain and the other
>strange symptoms.....
>
>Please don't worry about me, I am well cared for, but thank you for the
>prayers and the angels.... prayers are most gratefully and humbly
>received. I really want to thank you for just being you... showing you
>are there for someone you have never met face to face...reaching out to
>others suffering similar pain to your own is a powerful thing.... and I
>have a better understanding those of you who have been in hospital or
>those who are really sick and been on the receiving end of the love and
>good wishes.... thank you all again, from the bottom of my heart.
>
>Shane has also felt the love and concern and it has helped him to cope
>with having me so far away from home.... I am three and a half hours
>away at the Royal Womens Hospital for Women in Randwick, Sydney. He is
>at home with three teenagers and a 9 yr old that wants her
>mummy............... BUT she kinda sorta understands why mummy has to
>be in hospital to GET STRONGER TO FIGHT THE HORRID PAIN WE LIVE WITH DAY
>IN AND DAY OUT!!!!!
>
>love & hugs to all
>Jo http://www.bombobeach.com
>
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>I am not a medical person, and all my messages are based
>on personal experience. I am a fellow adhesions sufferer
>reaching out to help others.
>