Re: *** Bowel Preps for Laps....*** (((Belle)))
From: Marlene (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Dec 21 09:20:19 2000
Hi Belle:
Thank you for sharing this story in the memory of your friend.
In the 2 laps I have had done....the Doctor gave me no bowel prep and
after hearing this....I will be sure they do if I have anymore.
I can understand how difficult it is for you each year remembering
her....big hugss to you!!!
You are in my thoughts....
Warm hugsss
Mars
At Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Belle wrote:
>
>Hi Angels,
>
>I need to write to all of you because its coming to the anniversary of my
>best friends death..Before she went in for her lap due to Crohn's(regional
>ileitis) She was not given a bowel prep and due to that..she inhaled her
>gastric contents.....which had come from her bowel.and she drowned in her
>own secretions ...she never awoke from her surgery..
>
>This is why I have told this story every year....If any doctor forgets and
>does not order a bowel prep...this is what can happen...since that event I
>have never heard of any doctor around my area anyway.. forgetting to order a
>bowel prep before doing a lap...
>Maybe something good did come of her death...she has saved millions of endo
>sufferers world wide... through what she sufferered and died from. I know
>her father is a doctor and he would have definately not let his daughter's
>death..not have a meaning and what better way.. than to save as many other
>women,girls and children as well as males who have laps for other surgical
>reasons..
>I know it helped and had alot to do with... why and how I.. ended up
>making a documentary on endometriosis..She was my inspiration, as was my
>doctor... (who died 3 years before..who I nursed until he passed away from a
>terminal brain tumour.) Life is very strange and it is not always as it
>seems...I have learnt that over and over again..situation after
>situation..person after person...I think I may have learnt this time lol..
>Thanks for listening. and I hope it helps and saves one person from an
>untimely death or severe complications...Then it was worth it even more.. to
>tell my story about my best friend.
>
>Belle.
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