Re: Truth, adhesions and the American Way

From: Lillian (lilmsvirgo9459@wmconnect.com)
Mon Jun 30 23:05:51 2003


At Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Sally Grigg wrote: >Sally,

Of all the people I have met here in my past 2 years at this site Youhave been the most wonderful supportive and understanding. You give me hope and courage to go on with my life. You go girl. I truly can appreciate your truth and honesty. I love you and I stand beside you 100% when you say that this is your medical condition and no one should question your integrity and honesty.You have been an inspriration to me. If I had the funds I would be right beside you on that plane to Germany. Thanks for remaining here and keeping our skeleton crew together. Love YA Lillian >Hello, all, well, its been quite a busy eight months. I first went
>to Dr. Daniel in Frankfurt at the end of Oct. 2002. I was so happy.
>I had been slowly dying and I'm sure most of you know what I'm talking
>about there. I felt great. My second look showed that spraygel had
>worked
>and I had no adhesions. More important for me, I could no longer feel
>them.
>Alas, my appendix ruptured, the local doctors did nothing, I got sicker
>and
>sicker. Finally my poor husband called Dr. Daniel and he talked to the
>local
>surgeon and urged her to not wait any longer. "Open her up". Well,
>that was a good thing. My appendix had burst and was in small pieces
>and I was more than
>filled with infection/pus. Major peritonitis. A month in the hospital,
>drains,
>NG tubes, uck. I could feel the adhesions were back. I went again to
>Germany. My husband, Bless his soul, had saved money to develop our Inn
>and he used that
>money with no complaint. He never once threw it in my face. I love him
>so much. Well, to make a long story shorter, it was a very long surgery
>and lots of kits of spray gel. I was filled with dozens and dozens of
>adhesions - an explosion
>of immense proportions almost requiring a laporotomy. I had a reaction
>to the
>spray gel. No one knows why,no one had had this same reaction before. I
>told you all about this in my email dated 3/6/2003 to this board. At
>that time we
>were still hoping that I would be adhesion free, but there were no
>quarantees.
>There were too many adhesions and my body had rejected the spray gel.
>Well, I have pain back again. I'm still working, functioning, and
>active. I helped with the sheep shearing, planted hundreds of flowers
>(the deer loved them), redecorated rooms, finished the new quilts for
>the rooms, and basically did a really good deep cleaning of the Inn and
>all its eight buildings, plus
>helped with the new trail through the mountains and woods. Got a little
>scared, never saw such a big bear (hopefully he's gone now.) Sorry to
>ramble so, but I wanted to give you an idea of how active I've been. But
>I've also got pains back. I'm going back to Germany and Dr. Daniel
>Kruschinski. I was really hoping that against all odds and even with
>the massive number of adhesions and the rejection of the spraygel, that
>I would be lucky and I would escape from those horrid adhesions. No
>such luck. I've told many of you this in private emails and I've also
>mentioned it in BomboBeach.com I also just received an email from
>Beverly Doucette basically calling me a fraud, a liar, and insinuating a
>"conspiracy" of some sort to cover up my "condition". Well, Beverly,
>I'm not going to do that or let you impugn my integrity. My medical
>condition is none of your business, but since I've brought it up on this
>board, where I've felt at home for so long, I do want everyone to know
>whats going on. If any one has questions, please ask them here or email
>me privately. I've always been available to talk to fellow adhesion
>sufferers. I'm not leaving this site unless I'm kicked off. I
>sincerely want everyone to get well and I'll do what I can to help
>people. I've always wanted to "love one another" and I'm perfectly
>willing to continue on that basis. With kindest regards to all, Sally
>Grigg


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