Archive for December 25th, 2008

Should I sue because my intestines fell out after hysterectomy?

healing techniques
lildee asked:


I had a hysterectomy in the spring, no complications. At my six week checkup, my GYN said that I was healed and could resume normal activities including sex. A week later, after my husband and I had sex, my intestines came out and I had to be rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery. I was hospitalized for 5 days and now have chronic pelvic pain. Dr’s commented that this is an extremely rare event but nobody will say my hysterectomy surgeon made a mistake, even though the intestine that came out looked perfect, there was no blood when it happened and there was no scars on the intestine indicating that they had been sutured in. I saw one of the top attys in our city and they said there is no proof of dr error. I have researched this and the #1 reason for this happening is poor surgical technique but there are others(http://www.greenjournal.org/cgi/content/full/103/3/572)I cant work & still recovering…help

Sarah
 

questions about my chronic tendinitis and piano?

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Christopher R asked:


I’ve had tendinitis on the biceps side of my forearms (at the spot where the tendons that go to your fingers start) for 9 months now. It’s been mild but constant, and irritating enough to still prevent me from practicing the piano more than 15 minutes a day (I’m a music major and piano is my instrument, so I basically had to quit my major), or from using the computer more than 30 minutes a day.

I saw a physical therapist specializing in musicians’ injuries recently who believes the cause was weight lifting. (My teachers evaluated my technique and determined that was not the cause.) She told me to stop weight lifting completely, which I did a month ago. It still hasn’t cleared up yet. I’m getting small and wimpy again and I desperately want to start lifting as soon as possible. How is typing for a few minutes a day enough to keep something that was primarily caused by weight lifting from healing at all? How soon can I get back to lifting, and how gradually do I have to do it?

Elijah