still struggling some
From: toni welsh (twelsh1@webtv.net)
Thu Sep 23 11:12:02 1999
hello girls, wondering if all s okay. I have been nervous all heck,
just the thought of another laparotomy, the last one I was so sick in
the hospital. The first one last year as not as bad, but the drs have
told me the more they touch your bowel during surgery, the slower it
gets, and especially after surgery, by bowels did not want t wake up
after sugery, in the mean time the resident had upped my diet and made
me sick til my gyn came in the nest morning. I hope the barriers are
put soon, he did say he the general surgeon had talked about using
seprafilm, since interceed did not wor, because the gyn would lyse the
adhesions and free everything back up , and as he does that the general
surgeon would wrap y bowels with seprafilm, he said they did it together
with one of his patients like me, and she IS feelig alot better, but
there is no guarentees. He also talked about the wait for the new
barriers to be approved. Has there been any testing that it has worked?
he said the trouble he has is to do a laparoscopy the last one last year
failed, and the condition the bowels were in there, transverse colon was
laying on the pelvic floor, and it could have smothered my small bowel.
There in 1-2 inch thick scar tissue going through every loop of small
bowel, so he did tell me I am one of his wost patients. I told him I
find it hard to believe scar tissue is ruining my life, if I knew it
would help FOR SURE, even though i am scared as can be this time, I
would do it now!
Oh well, rambled enough! toni