In a message dated 5/21/2002 8:47:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, adhesions@adhesions.org writes:
> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 17:11:20 -0500 (CDT)
> From: anonymous@medispecialty.com (anonymous)
> To: ADHESIONS@OBGYN.NET
> Subject: Re: small bowel obstruction
> Message-ID: <200205212211.g4LMBKP32635@mail.medispecialty.com>
>
> I can be sympathetic with your pain. Five years ago I had my appendix
> removed laproscopacally, now five years later I find myself with quite a
> large problem. April 11th at 4am I went into the ER. I was in the most
> severe pain in my abdomen I have ever experienced in my life. It turns
> out I had a bowel obstruction due to scar tissue from the surger I had
> five years ago. I had to have emergency sugery. It turns out that
> three feet of my intestine was just about dead, my surgeon said it was a
> "purple almost black color". He did not have to remove any of my
> instestine that as soon as he untwisted it and removed the scar tissue
> it started getting pink again. I am 21 years old and I don't understand
> what has happend to me. All I read is that this is very rare and that
> it usually happens to older people. My life has been completely put on
> hold. I don't know if it can happen again, the docotors said that it
> could but it usually doesn't happend twice. As far as they tell me
> there is nothing I can do to prevent it. I am a college student and I
> live far from home and I have to admit I'm very scared of this. I want
> to live my life like I did before, I want to be "normal". I'm pretty
> much left with many questions and no clear answers.
>