>----- Original Message -----
From: "mrsskippy" <msbcrish@ptd.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 4:38 PM
Subject: 'botched' surgery
> Two years ago, my then 16 year old daughter underwent a laproscoptic
> surgery for abdominal pain only to discover that her appendix had
> spontaneously adhered to her stomach wall. The appendix was removed and
> we thought that was the end of her problems.
>
> Last week she again developed sever abdominal pain, and this time was
> diagnosed with adhesions. Her OBGYN doctor scheduled surgery to "cut"
> the adhesions and give her pain relief. But during the laproscoptic
> procedure, the doctor punctured my daughter's femoral artery, and she
> started to "bleed out". Since it was then a life or death situation,
> they made an emergency incision from my daughter's breast to her pubic
> area to quick locate the puncture, and a verasic surgeon was called in
> to repair it. She wound up in intensive care from what we thought was
> going to be a 1 hour, outpatient procedure.
>
> The good news is, she made it through just fine so far, with no apparent
> damage from the femoral puncture. They assured us that the repair is
> permanent, and her pulses and blood flow seem to be perfect into her
> right leg and foot. The bad news, and my question, is:
>
> If she was already developing problematic, painful adhesions
> spontaneously and from just a small laproscoptic procedure two years
> ago....what in the world will happen now from the scar tissue that will
> develope from the healing of this 13 inch long incision that they had to
> make in the emergency?
>
> Please help me with any advise or information you may have. This is a
> beautiful, vivatious young girl who just started pre-med at college this
> year, and now her entire first semester is in jeopardy because of the
> long recovery period now necessary from the extensive surgery. But her
> health of course is the main thing, and I am desparate to be able to
> give her hope and encouragement for her medical and emotional future.
>
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> Thank you,
> Mrsskippy
>