Thank you so much for letting us know how BW and Jill are doing. This is a dream come true. I can't wait to meet some of the wonderful people I have talked with through IAS. How are you doing? I have been gone for a week of vacation and am now trying to catch up on my e-mail and the message boards. I would love to hear from you. Please let Jill, BW, Anthea and of course YOU know that I am praying and will keep praying for them and their journey of pain.
Lynn
>Hello to all my IAS family, friends and visitors,
>
>It gives me great pleasure to give you an update on the progress after
>surgery this week of Browkenwing and Jill
>
>A recently published article about BW and her serious decline in health
>due to adhesions drew some interesting contacts - one was from Jill, who
>not only contacted Anthea, she contacted the Ohio University Surgeon who
>was quoted by the reporter in the article.
>
>Jill went to meet this doctor and was immediately booked in for surgery,
>after a long search to find a doctor who could help her and who believed
>that she was in genuine pain and needed help urgently.
>
>When Jill contacted Anthea about this wonderful doctor, Anthea
>immediately contacted BW so that she could make an appointment to talk
>to this doctor too.
>
>For those of you unaware, BW has been ill for quite some time and was
>loosing weight at an alarming rate, yet still the doctors ignored her,
>everyone unwilling to "touch her" because of the perceived difficulty of
>the surgery she desperately needed.
>
>Ensure a powdered protein drink used to make a shake for seriously ill
>hospital patients was the only food giving BW any of the complex
>vitamins and minerals our bodies need each day to function, but still
>she was loosing weight. BW couldn't even tolerate a slice of bread.
>
>As you have read from Nancy's messages, BW is doing well and today she
>was allowed a liquid diet and feels more comfortable as the pain has
>subsided for her a little. It didn't take long for the doctor to
>discover the reason for BW's difficulty with eating, her colon twisted,
>kinked and attached to something in eight different places, including
>the vaginal vault.
>
>Jill's surgery was a little longer than BW's but she is also doing well
>and even managed to walk up to BW's room today for a short visit.
>
>This afternoon I had the wonderful pleasure of calling BW in the
>hospital as she was enjoying a visit from Anthea and her trusty "Jet
>Setting Canadian Wild Woman" friend Nancy Hale, who boarded three
>separate flights to get from her home in Canada to Ohio where she is
>spending a well deserved break with Anthea and visiting BW & Jill during
>their hospital recovery.
>
>It was so exciting to talk to so many of my special ARD family all
>together at the same time. I managed to have a great conversation with
>everyone and Nancy being the clever person that she is even managed to
>convince BW to have her photo taken while she looked like S##t ....
>Nancy is making sure that none of us miss out on these wonderful people
>getting together to love and support one another.
>
>You are all an inspiration to me and I know how much courage it took for
>you to decide on that surgery Kim, and I know how hard it was for James
>and your two precious boys waiting to hear how you went in surgery....
>then to have Anthea there to put the nursing staff in their place and
>make sure they looked after our media famous superstar BW!!!
>
>Everyone sounded so positive and excited, about the outcome of Kim's
>surgery and now she will have some breathing space until SprayGel is
>available, Nancy after her first (terrifying plane trip) and Anthea who
>is the “Ohio State Nursing Home for ARD patients” and is having a
>fantastic time, she told me.
>
>Please send all of these ladies your thoughts, positive vibes and
>love.... because they have really made a special effort to help each
>other and they make a perfect example of the good will and generosity
>and spontaneity that springs from adversity, disability and chronic
>pain.
>
>The hardest part of the phone call came when it was time to say goodbye
>to everyone.... I so wanted to crawl through the phone and into BW's
>hospital room.
>
>To James, sweet man thank you for looking after our special friend and
>your wonderful wife, sometimes I think the hubbies have the raw end of
>this whole deal, we sleep through all the drama and you suffer with time
>spent in hospital waiting rooms and sitting next to empty spaces where
>our hospital bed should be, but isn't because it is down in recovery
>waiting for the patient to be transferred back to their bed from the
>operating table. I hope your cold gets better soon James....
>
>To Bill.... thank you for all your love and support for Anthea and for
>putting up with loosing so much time with her to the computer and her
>enlarged family circle which now includes the wild woman from Canada, BW
>and Jill just to name a few oh, and me ;)!! hehehe
>
>To Chester and Shawn, thank you for being brave and looking after each
>other while Nancy makes this special trip to help BW, Jill and visit
>Anthea... I hope you got to ride the skidoo Shawn ;)
>
>Lastly to Carol Lynne, thank you, thank you for taking an interest in
>our cause, I look forward to sharing more time with you soon.
>
>So to all of my special ARD family.... thank you Lord for watching over
>them, keep them safe and let them all return to their families soon.
>
>Love & warm gentle hugs,
>Jo
>
>--
>Joanne Eslick
>Founder Australian Adhesions Support Group
>http://www.bombobeach.com
>NSW Australian Co-ordinator of
>International Adhesions Society
>http://www.adhesions.org
>
>--
>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.
>
-- A new friend