Mary Lou,
Don't allow doubt to zap your chances at getting help that you desperately
need.
Your plans are made, go forward. People will always be making comments pro
& con (even doctors). You felt "right" about your decision or you would have
not made
it in the first place. Forget percentages. Go with full faith that you will
be improved.
Maybe not as much as you hoped, but it could be more than you are expecting!
I do think the doctors in Germany believe in helping the patients, as I have
talked to Dr. K by e mail several times.
When we planned to go to California last year my daughter was so weary of
being sick she just
wanted to cancel. She felt this surgery wouldn't help her anymore than the
last. I had
a gut feeling it would. It did!! She still tell me thanks for pushing her to
go. No, she isn't well,
but she is MUCH better than she was.
Best wishes!
Karen
-------Original Message-------
From: adhesions@adhesions.org
Date: Friday, January 10, 2003 05:41:48 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
Subject: All shook up!!
Dear folks,
All the uproar back and forth regarding dr moore has really got me
shaking. I realize that I am going to germany, to have surgery by a dr
I have never met, by myself because i can;t find anyone to go with me,
and he states only a 60% success rate for my type of problem, which is
adhesions in the torso, not in the abdomen, and at times, I feel like
this decision is insane. But I am so desperate for a chance to diminish
pain and get back my life. I have had the pain constantly for three
years, but only in my back, since Oct, it encircles my body. I have
nothing to look forward to except day after day of the same as the day
before. Falling further and further into depression and financial
abyss; I am getting more and more worn down; I know you all can relate
to that. I do not take narcotics because I already sleep 12 hours a
nite from amytriptylene, and I sm foggy when I finally get up. I need
reassurance that I am not grasping at straws. Do you think 60% sucess
rate for my type of problem is high enough to risk it?
thanks.
mary Lou (very nervous)