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Re: A simple trip to the ER consequently ended up staying 9 days(Ale)
From: Wendi (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat Mar 10 20:45:42 2001
At Sat, 10 Mar 2001, sela wrote:
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>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 Ale,
Thanks so much for the kind words, they sure do help. I'm starting to
feel a little bit better. Slowly, but surely hopefully. Good luck on
your surgery. I will be praying for you. What kind of abdominal
surgery are they doing this time?
Take Care,
Thanks again,
Wendi
>>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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