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Re: Anyone here from Canada that has had a good bowel adhesion surgeon?From: loretta (anonymous@obgyn.net)Tue May 2 16:48:58 2006
At Sat, 29 Apr 2006, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote: > >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: >> >>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 >>>
-- Thanks to all of you who posted here or wrote me at home, I really appreciate it. If I could ever get this done and got back to a normal life I will be forever grateful. Loretta
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