Re: *** Bowel Preps for Laps....*** ((( Mars)))
From: Belle (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri Dec 22 04:40:15 2000
Hi Marlene,
You are very welcome..I like to share this story..firstly to remember my
dear, beloved friend Belinda... each year and honour that her death was
meant to make others aware and to save them... from the same disaster and
mistake..I am so glad that it has made you aware and that you too... will
request to have a bowel prep... I am shocked that you have not had one
before..
Hugsz and Love and Pain Free Wishes,
Belle.
>----- Original Message -----
From: Marlene <anonymous@obgyn.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list ENDO <anonymous@obgyn.net>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 3:20 AM
Subject: Re: *** Bowel Preps for Laps....*** (((Belle)))
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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