I'm Back FINALLY!

[Jackie]

Dear Friends,

As many of you know, I had major abdominal surgery on Feb 8th to correct a colon condition at Stanford University Hospital here.

For the next 3 months, the incision refused to heal despite attention from nurses 1-2-3 times a day. Depressing, horrible time.

Finally the surgeon decided to take X-rays to see what was wrong. They found a SPONGE had been left inside me in February.

Of course, I had to have another surgery to remove it. It's been just over a month now and I am FINALLY feeling better. I think I'm now back for good, much stronger and healing fine.

I really want to thank our moderators and all you resident experts who have carried taken care of everything while I was out of it. I'd peek in sometimes but (forgive me) just did not have the heart to write anything... and didn't really want to talk about my medical situation cause I wasn't sure WHEN I'd ever get well!!

Thanks again to everyone. I hope to be more responsive now that I'm really back.

Jackie