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Re: Anyone here from Canada that has had a good bowel adhesion surgeon?
From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Sat Apr 29 10:55:50 2006
I would highly recommend Dr. Catherine Allaire. She works out of both
the Womens Hospital and the UBC fertility clinic in vancouver.
At Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Victoria wrote:
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>At Thu, 27 Apr 2006, loretta wrote:
>>Hi Loretta,
>
>I am in northern Saskatchewan, whoo hoo for Canada. I do have a very
>good endo specialist in Regina who I travel 4 hours to see and is worth
>it. His name is Dr. Thiel and he is excellent. I am waiting for
>surgery right now, the list is long, but he is willing to take the time
>and work with bowel endo. He is going to remove my ovaries (I already
>had hyst) and clean up my bowels. He said the surgery is going to be
>quite extensive so I will have to do a bowel prep before hand as in
>order to remove the lesions chances are he will need to repair and
>resection as he goes. I saw 3 gyn who were unwilling to try surgury and
>wanted me to sit at home on disability and pain meds until natural
>menopause. Not an option for a single mom at 31. Dr. Thiel rocks. He
>also gave me his email address because I live so far away in case I had
>any general questions but my family doc is pretty good. I would
>definately look into it. From what I've heard from others (I previously
>worked as med office assistant) Dr. Thiel is one of the best in Western
>Canada. Hope this helps. Feel better soon.
>Victoria
>>Hey everyone,
>>
>>As lots of you know already I am in Alberta Canada. I have had emails
>>about some endo surgeons in my area however none do the extensive severe
>>bowel intestinal adhesion surgery training I require. My insurance may
>>not cover the trip to the states to see the Dr I should be seeing and at
>>this moment cash in the thousands is not exactly available. I was
>>wondering if anyone out here knows of any in Canada worth the effort. I
>>would have thought I would have heard of any as I have every good
>>specialist in the gyne field on my case and they have only sent me to
>>one cancer surgeon for it and he wasn't too excited to sat the least
>>about tackling mine. Any out there? Thanks Loretta
>>
>>--
>>I had to laugh at the thought of that poor person , all that training in the
>>medical school to be the uterus on a stick holder! Does that require further training?!lol
>> What a job!
>>But seriously, yes, to a professional one part is just the same as the next,
>> you are right, it makes no diff to them, they all look the same after awhile
>> no one is judging you. However, if you are a modest person who has problems
>>even having a pap done, the thought of this and an entire room full of people
>>who can see (but not necessarily all looking at what we imagine)
>>your naked body and your uterus being manipulated by a person with a stick,
>> is fairly unnerving and perhaps embarrassing.
>> Not everyone is used to baring it all, even to a room full of pro's.
>>Loretta
>>
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