I wanted to answer these questions because I do understand your curiosity.
>Of course, all this assumes that this complaint is "true".
YES, unfortunately they are true.
>One wonders about the history. Why the hysterectomy at such a young age?
I was hemorrhaging and had one 7 pound cyst on one ovary and a 15 pound on
the other.
> Why total stomach removal?
I had an ulcer. Many attempts were made to control it with medication but
they all failed. When my body stop excepting food or liquids an attempt was
made to remove part of my stomach. Then a month later a other ulcer
appeared, once again medicine was not effective. The ulcer penetrated my
pancreas and I lost a lot of blood. Then my body began to reject food so
feed tubes were introduced. I just kept getting worse, I died once and they
rescued me. The doctors did everything they could and they also consulted
with other doctors around the world to seek a treatment other than removing
the entire stomach. There was no other choice.
> How is feeding accomplished now? without medical or at least nursing
supervision?
Because they took a part of my intestines and put it in place of my stomach.
At first it was hard because I could only eat small portions. But now I eat
like I did before the ulcer.
It seams to me what everyone is failing to see is the fact that I am saying
that I know it was probably a TIA and yes it scares me. But what scares me
more it loosing the life, my life, that I just got back. Yes I want to
live, but not with the conditions of having to be hospitalized all the time.
I know most of you have probably never been so ill that you LIVE in a
hospital room for a year straight. Well I have and it was something I
thought if I did everything would be ok and I could get on with my life.
But unfortunately that was and is not true. What I am trying to say is I
just can't go though all the test, IVs, feeding tubes, surgeries again. I
thank you for your comments.
Carol E. Bryant
bryantacm at worldnet.att.net
F. Frank LeFever wrote in message <7h4dj5$21a at dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com>...
>>>>>>Sounds like you had part of your brain removed along with your stomach.
> Yes, of course, you go to the emergency room, immediately, with such
>symptoms--at 2:00 am if necessary. You do not wait until Monday and
>make an appointment with your family doc or your last surgeon.
>>Might be a stroke, might be a TIA (tansient ischemic attack), might be
>migraine. Even in the case of a stroke, the "permanent" damage does
>nbot occur immediately, and there are new techniques which have promise
>for limiting extent of damage developing over the few hours following
>the onset of the ischemia.
>>In the case of TIA, there may be treatments to prevent TIAs recurring
>and/or evolving to stroke.
>>Migraine is treatable.
>>Of course, all this assumes that this complaint is "true". One wonders
>about the history. Why the hysterectomy at such a young age? Why
>total stomach removal? How is feeding accomplished now? without
>medical or at least nursing supervision?
>>F. LeFever
