At Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Rick wrote:
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>I have suffered from dense abdominal adhesions since 1977. They were
>lysed in 1977 during an appendectomy, they were again lysed in 1978 for
>partial obstruction,in 1999 there were severe adhesions found while
>having my gall bladder removed and in 2002 lysis of even more adhesions.
>In Sept.2002, I had a complete obstruction and was in the hospital for 3
>days. After it cleared itself, I was told by the attending surgeon that
>"you had a simple bowel spasm" ! He just completely dismissed it. A
>year later I was in the hospital again and was told, "Do you know you
>were completely obstructed back in Sept. 2002 ?!".