MRS. CYNTHIA SHRUHAN 53 YEARS, WE HAVE LIVED IN LAS VEGAS NEVADA FOR 11 YEARS, IM A NATIVE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GIRL, WE HAVE TWO KIDS, DAUGHTER IS 33, LIVES IN IDAHO WITH OUR TWO GRANDDAUGHTERS, AND NEW GRANDSON DUE ANY DAY, OUR KIDS ARE BY A PREVIOUS MARRIAGE OF MINE, BUT DON'T TELL OUR KIDS THIS, HA HA. AS THEY LOVE MY HUBBY, BOBBY AS THERE FATHER, GOD KNOWS THIS MAN IS TRULY A SAINT TO ME, WE HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR 21 YEARS, STARTED INFERTILITY IMMEDIATELY, I WANTED ANOTHER BABY WITH BOBBY, THIS WAS NOT MEANT TO BE. IN 1981 ALL OF THIS STARTED. MY FIRST ABDOMEN SURGERY WAS IN 1981, THAT WAS ALSO MY FIRST INSEMINATION, AND WITHIN TWO WEEKS, I DEVELOPED A HUGE MASS ON MY RIGHT OVARY, AND TUBE, THE SIZE OF A GRAPEFRUIT, EMERGENCY SURGERY TO REMOVE THAT, ALONG WITH MY TUBE, AND OVARY..2ND INSEMINATION DID THE EXACT SAME THING, THIS TIME MY LEFT SIDE, THIS CREATED ANOTHER EMERGENCY SURGERY TO REMOVE MY LEFT OVARY, AND TUBE. WE WERE LEFT WITH ONE MORE TRY, THE DOC'S WANTED! TO PLACE IT DIRECTLY INTO MY UTERUS, AGAIN I DEVELOPED A HUGE MASS, NOW ATTACHED TO THE UTERUS, BEINGS THAT WAS ALL THAT WAS LEFT..3RD SURGERY IN 1983 EMERGENCY, TO REMOVE MY ENTIRE FEMALE ORGANS, WITH IN TWO MONTHS, I FELT PAIN OFF, AND ON AROUND MY RIGHT SIDE AGAIN, OF COURSE BOBBY, AND I NEVER DID HAVE OUR OWN KIDS, BUT AS BOBBY HAS ALWAYS SAID, HEY..WE HAVE 2 TO RAISE NOW, THAT SHOULD KEEP US REAL BUSY. THE YEARS PASSED, AND THE PAIN INCREASED, BUT WOULD GO AWAY. LITTLE DID I KNOW WHAT WAS GROWING INSIDE OF ME ALL OVER MY G.I. TRACK. IN 1994 DETECTION STARTED HERE. BOTH MY WRIST FLARED UP, I COULD NOT EVEN USE MY HANDS TO BRUSH MY TEETH, SO PAINFUL, DOC SAID CARPEL TUNNEL, HE ALSO WANTED SURGERY ON BOTH ASAP. OH NO, SECOND OPINION, NEW MD..SAID NO SURGERY ON YOUR WRIST YET, DID A COMPLETE EXAM, HE WAS EXAMINING MY LOWER GI TRACK, AND I JUMPED OFF THAT TABLE LIKE SOMEBODY HAD STABBED ME. MY MD, JUST JUMPED BACK, AND SAID, WHAT IS THIS, YOU HAVE NO FEMALE ORGANS, WHY SO MUCH! H PAIN, WELL GEE, ITS BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS, BUT AGAIN IT WAS OFF, AND ON, DON'T EVER IGNORE PAIN, EVER, AS THIS HAS LEAD ME TO THE PLACE IM AT NOW, BASICALLY BEDRIDDEN ALL THE TIME, THE DOC DID A EXAM OF THE RECTUM TO FIND A LOT OF BLOOD, OFF TO THE GI DOC, AND ALL THOSE WONDERFUL TEST THEY DO..UCK..ANYWAYS MY GI DOC FOUND UNIVERSAL ULCERATIVE COLITIS, WHICH MEANS THE ENTIRE LARGE BOWEL WAS INVOLVED, THIS IS RARE, THIS HAS ALSO BEEN WITH ME MY ENTIRE LIFE, WITH UNIVERSAL COLITIS, YOUR ODDS OF CANCER WILL INCREASE, I WAS ON STEROIDS FOR TWO YEARS, I BLEW UP TO 132 LBS, PREDNISONE DID NOT WORK ON COLITIS, THE MEDS THAT DO THE BEST, ARE THE SULPHA MEDS, IM ALLERGIC TO THEM ALL, AND ALMOST DIED THE LAST TIME I TOOK ONE OF THE SULPHA MEDS FOR A BLADDER INFECTION YEARS AGO, MY GI DOC, TRIED EVERY MEDICATION THAT WAS OUT THERE, FOR THIS DISEASE, NOTHING WOULD TOUCH IT, HE FINALLY DECIDED TO TRY CHEMO THERAPY IN PILL FORM, AND MY GOSH THIS WORKED, I TOOK CHEMO VIA PILLS DAILY, MY HAIR FEEL OUT, TONS OF SIDE EFFECTS FROM CHEMO, BUT IT TRULY GOT THE! COLITIS UNDER CONTROL, BUT THIS RIGHT SIDED PAIN WAS SO HORRID BY THIS TIME, I TOLD MY GI, AND MY MD DOC, THIS IS NOT RIGHT, SOMETHING VERY WRONG IS GOING ON IN THERE, THEY LISTENED, SAID NOTHING, THIS WENT ON, AND ON. I ENDED UP IN ER SO MANY TIMES, THEY ADMITTED ME SEVERAL TIMES, TO RUN THE SAME TEST, AND NOT ONE TEST SHOWED ANY BLOCKAGE, OR AIR POCKETS, NOTHING. SO THIS PAIN JUST GETS WORSE, AND WORSE, I HAVE BEEN SEEING A PHD SINCE I MOVED TO VEGAS, FOR OTHER REASONS, BUT NOW THAT I LOOK BACK, I THANK GOD SHE HAS BEEN THERE WITH ME THROUGH OUT ALL OF THIS, AND I STILL SEE HER MONTHLY, I FEEL VERY STRONGLY THAT WITH CHRONIC PAIN, OR A HORRID DISEASE, A PHD CAN HELP MORE THAN ANYTHING...I LOVE MY PHD DOC, SO MUCH. SHE HAS BEEN A BLESSING IN MY LIFE. BECAUSE IT TOOK SO LONG TO GET THE DISEASE UNDER CONTROL, THIS ADHESIONS THING WAS GROWING BY THE SECONDS. THE PAIN WAS NOW RUNNING AROUND TO MY BACK, AND UP MY RIGHT SIDE, PULLING, BURNING, SO MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF PAIN, I TOLD! D MY DOCTORS SO MANY TIMES, I ENDED UP IN THE HOSPITAL WITH D! DEHYDRATION, AND MALNUTRITION TWO TIMES, I ALMOST DIED ONE OF THE TIMES, I WAS SO MALNOURISHED, MY MD DID NOT KNOW IF I WOULD MAKE IT, AT THIS TIME MY WEIGHT WAS 69 LBS, I HAD LOST ALL THAT WEIGHT FROM THE STEROIDS, BUT I STILL LOOKED 9 MONTHS PREGNANT. I CALLED IT MY BABY. I WAS ALSO PLACED ON TPN.. WHICH IS FEEDING ONE BY A TUBE, MINE WAS IN MY MAIN ARTERY IN MY UPPER ARM, THIS WORKED GREAT, AND I SHOULD OF BEEN ABLE TO KEEP IT IN A LONG TIME, BUT MY LUCK, MY LIVER WAS GETTING WAY TO MUCH OF A FAT BUILD UP, SO THEY HAD
TO TAKE ME OFF THAT ASAP.. BUT, I KNEW THEN, THAT IF I DIDN'T DO SOMETHING MYSELF, I WOULD END UP DEAD. I GOT OUT OF THE HOSPITAL, AND TRIED EVERYTHING IN THIS WORLD TO EAT, ONLY TO BE IN MORE PAIN, EVEN WATER HURTS TO DRINK...AGAIN, IM BEGGING MY DOC TO GO IN THERE, AND LOOK, I KEPT TELLING HIM, THERE IS SOMETHING VERY WRONG IN THERE, LIKE I SAID EARLIER, FINALLY IN 1999, I SAW A SURGEON, AND HE DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO GO IN, AND SEE WHAT WAS UP...WELL, THE SURGE! RY TOOK ABOUT 6 HOURS, THEY HAD TO REMOVE MY BABY.. HA HA.. BUT, THE ADHESIONS WERE ATTACHED TO JUST ABOUT EVERY ORGAN IN THERE, THEY HAD TO TAKE OUT 9 FEET OF MY SMALL INTESTINES, AND 7-9 LBS OF ADHESIONS, THIS IS WHAT IM REFERRING TO AS MY BABY. WHEN I FINALLY WOKE UP ENOUGH. ALL MY DOCTORS COULD SAY, IS, IM SO SORRY, WE HAVE NO IDEA HOW YOU HAD EVEN ONE BM, LET ALONE SEVERAL A DAY, WELL THE SEVERAL A DAY, WAS ALL WATER, AND YES, THEY WERE AWARE OF THIS CONSTANT DIAHORREA, FORGIVE MY MISSPELLED WORDS (it's Ok Cynthia, I have spell check - webmaster), IM ALSO IMPAIRED WITH MY VISION, SO I USE THE CAP'S, BUT I KNOW MY SPELLING HAS REALLY GOTTEN BAD. I LIVED ON LORATAB'S FOR ALMOST 3 YEARS, AFTER THE 4TH SURGERY WITHIN THREE DAYS THE PAIN WAS BACK ON MY RIGHT SIDE, YES I WAS DEVASTATED, IT WAS THEN THAT THE SURGEON SAID, EVERY SURGERY IS ONLY GOING TO BRING MORE PAIN, AND YOU WILL END UP LOSING MORE OF YOUR ORGANS, AND PARTS...I DIDN'T THINK THIS WAS REAL, TO ME, SURGERY, YOU FEEL BETTER LATER. SURGERY MEANS AN END TO WHATEVER ON!
E IS SUFFERING FROM, WELL NOT THIS DISEASE OF ADHESIONS, KNOWING WHAT I KNEW THEN, AND NOW, I WILL NOT HAVE SURGERY AGAIN, UNLESS THERE IS A TOTAL OBSTRUCTION. I DEAL WITH MALABSORPTION PROBLEMS, MY FOOD, AND PILLS COME OUT WHOLE SOMETIMES, IM NOW ON KADIAN, A NEW FORM OF MORPHINE, CAPSULE, WITH LITTLE MEDS IN IT, THIS WORKS BETTER, EASIER TO DIGEST I.E. STILL WORKING ON BREAK THROUGH PAIN MED, WHICH IS TEARING ME APART, IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE. THE ADHESIONS ARE NOW SO BAD, ITS HARD TO EVEN SIT UP, THE BAND NOW RUNS FROM MY LOWER RIGHT SIDE, ALL THE WAY UP RIGHT SIDE, GOING UNDER BOTH BREAST, AND AROUND TO MY LOWER BACK, ABOUT 4 YEARS AGO, MY DOCTORS SENT ME TO UCLA IN CALIF, AND I HAD THAT NERVE BLOCK DONE TO MY BACK, OH MY GOD, THAT HURT SO BAD, AND DID NOTHING FOR THIS PAIN, I WILL NEVER HAVE THAT PROCEDURE DONE AGAIN.. IM A VERY POSITIVE PERSON, AND I DO THIS BECAUSE GOD SEND ME AN SAINT ON THIS EARTH, AND THAT IS MY HUBBY BOBBY, MY KIDS, MY MOTHER, AND GRANDKIDS ARE MY LIFE, AND I LIVE, AND BREATH FOR THEM.. IM AT THE POINT NOW WHERE MY BOWELS DON'T WORK AT ALL, I HAVE TO USE A MASSAGER ON MY GUT AREA, JUST TO MAKE THEM MOVE A LITTLE, I TAKE UP TO 7 STOOL SOFTENERS A DAY, EVEN THO I HAVE DIAREEHEA AT TIMES STILL. I FEEL AN EXPLOSION IN THERE WHEN THINGS MOVE, AND THE PAIN THAT THIS CAUSES, JUST TAKES MY BREATH AWAY...WELL, IM SURE I COULD WRITE A BOOK ON THIS, AS MOST OF US COULD. I WANT TO LET EVERYONE KNOW, I REALLY FEEL WE SHOULD BE MAKING A BIGGER POINT OF USING PHD'S WITH THIS DISEASE, ADHESIONS, I OWE A LOT TO MY PHD, AND WHEN NO ONE ELSE WOULD LISTEN, SHE DID, AND SHE HAS HELPED MY OTHER DOCTORS UNDERSTAND IT BETTER, OF COURSE FINDING YOU GUYS, AND JOINING THE GROUP HAS ALSO BEEN A BLESSING IN MY LIFE, JO HAS BEEN A SAINT ALSO, HER UNDYING CARE THAT SHE GIVE TO US ALL IS JUST OUTSTANDING. WELL IM INCLUDING MY EMAIL ADDRESS, AND I WILL END THIS, BY TELLING YOU ALL IM HERE FOR EACH, AND EVERY ONE OF YOU, FOR I KNOW YOUR ALL THERE FOR ME, I THANK GOD FOR YOU ALL, KEEP YOUR SPIRIT HIGH, AND DON'T EVER! GIVE UP THIS BATTLE, WE WILL WIN THIS WAR ONE DAY. GOD BLESS! ALL MY NEW FRIENDS..P.S. MY HUBBY BOBBY IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST REASONS I STAY HERE ON THIS EARTH, NOT ONE OF US CAN GO WRONG IF WE HAVE OUR SOUL MATES BY OUR SIDES, AND OUR FAMILY. MY LORD GOD IS ALSO MY STRENGTH, BUT MY BOBBY IS MY LIFE...BYE FOR NOW. 

LOVE TO YOU ALL, AND A NEW FRIEND.. 
CINDY SHRUHAN