At Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Caroline wrote:
>
>At Tue, 22 Oct 2002, gidge wrote:
>>Gidge, maybe the doctor used the term "matured" as a figure of speech.
>Maybe he met that they were old adhesion that have been there for a
>while.
>I don't know just a guess? You think some adhesion are older than
>others?
>thought I throw some dry humor in for you. LOL.
>
>>Hi, I recently had my 3rd adhesion removal since my hyst 3 yrs ago. It
>>was done by laparotomy because in my last scope the operative report
>>said "extensive left sided bowel adhesions"......they did remove some
>>adhesions from my bowel on the left and right side, but when I asked my
>>general surgeon about the extensive adhesions from the last report he
>>said that those had seemed to "mature" and were now normal muscle and
>>tissue......??
>>
>>I have never heard of this happening and am pretty confident he would've
>>removed them if they had been there since he seemed sorta bummed that
>>there wasn't "more to do" while in there......any input anyone can give
>>me on this "matured adhesion" think would be appreciated....I don't
>>know, hopefuly he wasn't shooting me a line! thanks for your help!