--- On Mon, 2/23/09, Mark Thompson <mark7@skynetbb.com> wrote:
> From: Mark Thompson <mark7@skynetbb.com>
> Subject: Re: Surgery--Would you do it again? (POLL)
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS" <adhesions@mail.obgyn.net>
> Date: Monday, February 23, 2009, 12:29 PM
> Doctors carefully weigh the risks versus the rewards.
> I've seen three surgeons who all said "I have no
> doubt that you have adhesions. However, I don't like to
> do surgery unless..." [and here the answers of the
> three surgeons differed.] The reason the three believed I
> had adhesions was because of statistical probabilities.
> However, doctors can't put a statistic in a patient file
> as proof.
> The decision to do surgery varies from doctor to doctor.
> Standards don't yet exist. Tests for adhesions, until
> recently, were unavailable. (Search archives for
> information about fMRI) There was, and some say still is,
> no measuring stick.
> Yours,
>
> Mark in Seattle
>
> Tracy S wrote:
> > Every Dr that I talked to refuses to even consider
> doing surgery to remove the adhesions, even though they have
> caused 4 partial bowel obstructions in less then 18 months.
> They refuse to do any surgery inless there is a complete
> obstruction. Is this the norm? Also I'm wondering those
> that have had obstructions, have they been visible on
> regular Xrays? All 4 obstructions I've had did not show
> up on a regular Xray but were visible on CAT....I'm just
> wondering if others have had this happen as well.
> > I had another trip to the ER yesterday ....throwing
> up, terrible pain and my tummy so bloated you would have
> thought I was pregnant! This time they only did a regular
> Xray and since it didn't show a obstruction sent me on
> my way even though I explained I've never had an
> obstruction show up on an Xray...
> >
> > --- On *Sun, 2/22/09, Kim /<kkajark@aol.com>/*
> wrote:
> >
> > From: Kim <kkajark@aol.com>
> > Subject: Re: Surgery--Would you do it again?
> (POLL)
> > To: "Multiple recipients of list
> ADHESIONS" <adhesions@mail.obgyn.net>
> > Date: Sunday, February 22, 2009, 11:22 PM
> >
> > The odd thing is I am going to have surgery for
> the 10th time an am so
> > looking forward to it because I to agree that a
> even a little relief is
> > better than non.
> >
> > At Mon, 23 Feb 2009, carynlruzich@comcast.net
> wrote:
> > >
> > >Yes! Even short lived relief is worth it to
> me.
> > >
> > >Caryn R
> > >
>> > >>----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Katie"
> <katie_scarlett67@hotmail.com>
> > >To: "Multiple recipients of list
> ADHESIONS"
> > <adhesions@mail.obgyn.net>
> > >Sent: Friday, February 6, 2009 10:43:09 AM GMT
> -05:00 US/Canada
> > Eastern
> > >Subject: Surgery--Would you do it again?
> (POLL)
> > >
> > >For those that have had surgery strictly for
> removing the adhesions ...
> > >would you do it again?
> > >
> > >Your answers will not influence the fact that
> I am about to have surgery
> > >for mine. I'm just curious.
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Katie
> > >
> > >tm
> > >htm
> >
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> -- Notable Quotes:
>
> "No one can genuinely love the world, which is too
> large to love entire. To love all the world at once is
> pretense or dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is
> like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because,
> feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed
> from the struggles and the duties that come with loving
> people as individuals, [and] with loving one place -- home
> -- above all others.
> "I embrace the world on a scale that allows genuine
> love... and I love life, because of what the beauty of this
> world and of this life portend. I don't love them
> [people and places] to excess, and I stand in awe of [each]
> only to the extent that an architect might stand in the
> receiving room of a magnificent palace, amazed and thrilled
> by what he sees, while knowing that all this is as nothing
> compared to the wondrous sights that lie beyond the next
> threshold." - Dean Koontz, Odd Hours, Chap. 14