Re: Passion and anger

From: Alta Costew (racostew@sbcglobal.net)
Thu Jan 29 07:41:39 2009

I agree with you on this.  For the men who suffer and their loved one, this is not towards you but....  Why is Viagra and Penial Pumps covered by insurance but birth control and things that effect women are not.  Really, this does effect real men, the ones who stand by their loved ones and suffer.  Most men leave their significant others that suffer from this.  When they cannot perform they find a new model. 

Maybe we are looking at this all wrong.  How about addressing how this effects marriage and relationships?  When we marry its for in sickness and in health.  Some are not strong enough to stay.  I don't know their reasons but it happens.

________________________________ From: Kelly Murray <klmurray_61@msn.com>=0ATo: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@ma= s.

________________________________ From: Kelly Murray <klmil.obgyn.net> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 8:30:20 AM Subject: Re: Passion and anger

I know there are men on this site and I don't want to offend you but if more men had adhesions, I think there would be more public knowledge.  Just my opinion. I don't think it hurts to keep writing Oprah or anyone else but I know that they have all been written to in the past and nothing has come of it but you never know, you might hit pay d >irt.
----- Original Message ----- From: Mark in Seattle To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 1:39 AM Subject: Passion and anger I'll say this: I think Diana, in her passion, has a point.  If there is anyone here who has not done something to channel their disappointment and anger into something constructive, then I don't think you have a leg to stand on to complain.

I think writing to Oprah is a fine idea.  Another idea is to write a letter to the US Surgeon General.  Tell him we're confused by scientific studies.  What does the science tell us about adhesiolysis? Is it working? I've seen a study that says it has a success rate between 46 to 87 percent.  ( World Journal of Surgery, March 2006) Can you pin that rate down a little more? Is it closer to 46 percent or closer to 87 percent?

Office of the Surgeon General 5600 Fishers Lane Room 18-66 Rockville, MD 20857

Being angry is good if it motivates you to do something that is uncomfortable or difficult.  Being angry with each other, however, is probably energy that is misdirected.  Being angry at doctors is closer to the target.  It's not a bulls-eye.  But it's closer to it.

I'm surprised we're not discussing the breaking news about the Functional MRI test for adhesions.  Isn't anyone excited that we may now have something that we can use to show doctors that this disease is real? Granted it may not be perfect, but it's something tangible.  That could make all the difference in terms of funding research.  Now we can measure if something is working.  Proof.  It's what makes science, science.  Now may be the best time to kick down some doors.  It might actually get a response.

Citation:

Sonja Buhmann-Kirchhoff, Reinhold Lang, Chlodwig Kirchhoff, Heinrich Otto Steitz, Karl Walter Jauch, Maximilian Reiser and Andreas Lienemann, European Radiology, June 2008, Functional cine MR Imaging for the Detection and Mapping of Intraabdominal Adhesions: Method and Surgical Correlation

Yours, 

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Mark in Seattle


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