>----- Original Message -----
From: "Brandi " <jinxedfairy@aol.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: Surgery Outcome
> Millie,
> Wow I am so sorry............I have had the worst weekend of my life so
> far...........I dint feel the worst of the surgery until two days after
> the surgery, and WHAM bleeding cramping....Unfortunatly I was unable to
> stay ahead of the pain, and never caught up with it at all... in the
> end I was able to go to sleep..................this morining I was able
> to find relief with one pill, (so far) and am hoping for getting the
> heck out of this bed!!! :) My family (one 19 year old daughter 1
> husband) do not seem to know how to act, Yes they are taking care of me
> but they seem overwhelmed that I am not up and livley.....God knows I
> have tryed to excape the bedroom and go downstairs only to be chased
> back like a child (SIGH)..... My mind drifts to What my llife might be
> like if I go thru with the Hyst.......Will I struggle even more with
> pain that will be As I see a life sentence to pain.........Will I have
> to check myself in to the looney bin as the thought of going thru an
> early menapause, In the precence of my Husband I have nicknamed clingly
> bear, or my daughter who we will just call greatly obsessed with
> self.......... At his point there is not much time left for my thoughts
> as We looked at the pictures he brought to expain the extensive dammage
> to my insides.. So now It just a matter of WHEN.
> It is really nice to be able to share, and comfort others who have the
> same Problem, I find it really hard to even get those closest to
> undersatand how hard this is for me, they only hear Sick.........If what
> I face is what you live every day, then lets keep in touch and compare
> notes !!
> Brandi
> P.S sorry so long (i do ramble) To long in bed LOL
>
> At Fri, 2 May 2003, Millie wrote:
> >
> >Brandi,
> >Did the Dr. tell you just how severe your endo is? I think there are
four
> >classes, with class 4 being severe endo.
> >I had a TAH/LSO in 2001, and I had only minimal endo. There was no need
for
> >her to remove all the organs that she did. She also lysed adhesions and
> >placed Interceed, an adhesion barrier, which didn't work.
> >Brandy, I am not a medical professional, but I am an adhesions sufferer,
and
> >more surgery will most likely make the adhesion problem worse. Many
Drs.
> >won't tell you that.
> >So many Drs. don't believe us when we tell them we have pain. Then they
want
> >to do surgery and no matter what you ask them not to do, once you sign a
> >surgical consent form, they have the right to remove whatever they see
fit
> >to remove, as you are under anesthesia and unable to stop them.
> >Millie.
> >
>> >>----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Brandi " <jinxedfairy@aol.com>
> >To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
> ><adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
> >Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 8:51 PM
> >Subject: Surgery Outcome
> >
> >> I made it thru the surgery.......but the bad news is that they have
> >> determined there was SO much adhesions and Endo that I have to have a
> >> full Hyst??
> >> This coming from the doc who said If you have Endo (SIGH).....He told
my
> >> husband he was sorry that he dint listen to me about pain
> >> now............
> >> So as I am laying here...Wondering if this will truely be the answer.
> >> Thank you all for your kind words and support, I am truely touched.
> >> I have a question......Is there alternative hormone therapys out
there??
> >> I am 38 and now am worried about the statisics of breast cancer.......
> >>
> >> --
> >> Brandi Lyn Lee
> >>
>