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Re: *** Bowel Preps for Laps....***From: char (anonymous@obgyn.net)Mon Dec 25 07:07:53 2000
At Fri, 22 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. Hello, I was just wondering if a bowel prep is needed before a hysterectomy as well as a lap. I am going in for a hyst on thursday morning and was wondering about it.. Thanks alot and hope everyone has a good Christmas Char
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