>----- Original Message -----
From: "Sally Grigg" <LostCst@mcn.org>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS" <adhesions@dns.obgyn.net>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 10:25 PM
Subject: Truth, adhesions and the American Way
> 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
>