Contact: Dr. Kopjar Head of the OB/GYN General Hospital Zabok 49210 ZOBOK, Trg D. Domjanica 6 tel: +385 49 221 232 fax: +385 49 221 152 email: mkopjar@bolnic-zabok,hr http://www.bolnica-zabok,hr
Private Practice: 10000 Zagreb, P Preradovica 20/1 tel: +385 1 48 54 669 fax: +385 1 48 54 671 Mobile: + 385 (0) 98 378 840 email: mkopjar@hotmail.com
And please tell him Beverly Doucette from the USA say's Hello!
Hope this helps you Peace Bev
At Tue, 21 May 2002, Arno wrote:
>
>Dear People,
>I'm writing you from the capital of Croatia, Zagreb. My girlfriend is
>in the hospital here, and has been through 8 operations in the last
>year, mostly dealing with complications after a tumor removal from the
>rectum. She had serious adhesions of the thin bowel which were cut
>loose last year, and lived painlessly with a stoma for 6 months. After
>the "closing operation" adhesions quickly formed again seriously, and
>blocked the bowel. Another operation to "cut things loose" was
>performed before 10 days, and she is very slowly starting to eat
>somethings again. Besides a rectovaginal fistula which showed up before
>two days (with which I will not bother you here), she is again showing
>signs of developing pain pointing to adhesions, this time not (yet?)
>blocking the bowel movement, and not as massive as the ones before.
>Doctors in this country have a strong tendency to "go for the knife" and
>will probably show up tomorrow or the day after with the idea for
>another operation. With all your expertise and knowledge in this field
>would you recommend to give that another try, or to wait if the pains
>are bearable and the bowel movement not obstructed? Is there a chance
>for these pains to get less over time when things heal,or worse if you
>don't operate in time because of these adhesions spreading, and are
>there any techniques (yoga, meditations, stretchings, breathings) that
>might help fight the pain structurally? As medical care in this country
>is not as advanced as in many of your countries we do have to find out
>most things by ourselves, and be ahead of our doctors by at least one
>step all of the time.
>As the girl in question is the love of my life you will understand the
>urgency of these questions, and I thank you all in advance for any
>support and info that you can spare us at these hard moments. In the
>meantime I'm also wishing all of you a lot of strength and luck in
>dealing with your problems and suffering from this so hidden ordeal that
>so many people have to go through without "the world" knowing about it
>(or caring much, it seems). The caring I spotted on this site, however,
>leaves some space for hope, and hope is all we have. May you nurture
>yours,
>
>With Love,
>
>--
>Arno
>