>----- Original Message -----
From: "Marilyn Vaughan" <mavaughan@iastate.edu>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 11:20 AM
Subject: Update on Shawna French
> I talked with Shawna on the phone yesterday afternoon. She's still in a
> lot of pain. The doctor increased her Demerol. She also is on a drug
> for muscle spasms and she's receiving amino acids and proteins via IV to
> prevent malnutrition. She has three IVs! Shawna was being taken for the
> upper GI series as I closed our conversation. Because she has multiple
> kinks in her bowel, it took four hours for the dye to make its way
> through her intestines instead of the usual half hour.
>
> She thanks you all for your support. It means the world to her. I had
> a hard time reading her your messages because I was choking up. You're
> a wonderful group of people who truly understand what she's enduring.
> I'll continue to let you know how she's doing.
>
> Marilyn
>