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Re: A simple trip to the ER consequently ended up staying 9 days
From: sela (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat Mar 10 20:13:42 2001
Dear Wendi,
I am sorry about what you have been through. My heart goes out to you and I
hope you do get better soon. Pain is maddening, I know. I have been in
pain for about 14 years now. Tuesday I will have my sixth surgery - this
time major abdominal surgery. I am sure you are not crazy - people in
general cannot understand what we all go through. I will pray for you
tonight. Take care, Ale
-----Original Message-----
From: Wendi <anonymous@obgyn.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list ENDO <anonymous@obgyn.net>
Date: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 4:59 PM
Subject: A simple trip to the ER consequently ended up staying 9 days
>Hi everyone,
>Most of you don't know who I am, but some of you do, and I've been
>writing in the forum for about the past two months and haven't wrote in
>almost two weeks and I wanted to tell you about my experience. It's
>kind of a long huge ordeal, but somewhat interesting. First of all I
>had a hysterectomy done on January 15th, with no luck whatsoever I was
>still experiencing pain. On February 26th I worked a 14 1/2 hour shift,
>bartending, running around like crazy and ironically enough after
>finishing out my busiest week, woke up the next day with severe
>abdominal pain. Although I am pretty tough and am used to pain, this
>was very severe. More than I've ever felt before. I also had a fever
>of 102' and severe diarrhea. At first they thought it was Chroan's
>Disease, but that proved wrong. Thank God. What they found was an
>abscess in my lower abdomen somewhere in the bowel area. What they said
>was that I had two cists one on the left and one on the right, they were
>connected to each other. Fluid was also found. Pretty weird because it
>wasn't an infection, and why didn't my Gyno find this during my
>hysterectomy? They were going to do surgery, but they tried everything
>they could because where the abscess was they thought I would have bowel
>problems later on in life if they did. (Bowel Obstruction) I'm so
>confused because now that the abdomen pain has finally went away, I
>still have the back pain and leg pain. They said the abscess has
>shrunk, but I don't even know if its still there. The doctors think I'm
>crazy. I know I'm not. I think they're crazy. They didn't give me any
>solid food for the whole 9 days I was there, and half the day they
>wouldn't even give my liquids. I know I'm not. For some reason its not
>O.K. to experience abdomen pain, but it is for back and leg. I'm
>running out of options. I don't even know if its Endo causing this
>misery anymore. The doctors seem to think the abscess occurred after
>the hysterectomy. I thought after the hyst I wouldn't have any more
>trips to the hospital, but now 5 weeks later there I was. Oh well, I'm
>going to keep on truckin somehow. My children and my husband were going
>nuts, and so was I to be in there that long. You'd think I would have
>come out of there pain free. Oh well, hope everyone is hanging in
>there.
>Take Care,
>Wendi Farbstein
>
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