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To Glenna and Don C. About surgery--I'm now a past master at it. I kept complaining of feeling ill on this net & I know people wondered why I didn't go to a Doctor--well, I did--several Doctors in fact. One thought I had the Summer flu,without the vomiting, diarrhea, or a temp!! The other one felt I might have an abdominal obstruction. but since I had none of the other symptoms, EXCEPT not feeling I was evacuating enough, he told me to call him ANYTIME I had any other symptom!! Well, my Husband called him in the wee hours of the morning on the 26th. of May. After lying 4.5 hours in the ER of a LARGE METRO HOSPITAL IN SOUTH FLORIDA (not some little place that has only one doctor & one hospital) they finally found that I had a ruptured viscus--I didn't even know where that was. but after the surgery it turned out to be the Sigmoid Colon had ruptured. After all that timelying around in the ER it turned out that all they could do was leave the incision open to clean it out from within & without---I spent 10 days in the hospital and 36 days in a nursing home. Now I have a Home Health Care Nurse who comes in once a day to irrigate & change dressings. My message to EVERYONE is "Your on your own" None of these people know ANYTHING about PD. Lucky for me I had gotten off Eldepryl in Feb. so I could have Demoral--but had to stop the SURGEON from ordering Percocet for pain!! I NEVER EVER got my MEDS. on time--usually several hours off--they had time to chase a woman who kept taking her clothes off & running down the hallway--but never time to get the MEDS to the patients on time!!!! I will be at least 6 to 8 more weeks healing! I'm not bitter, just cannot understand why I can't do anything like everyone else does. Also, next time I feel badly I'm going to insist on some tests!!! I have Humana PPO not an HMO--so that was not the problem! When your Husband has surgery--DON'T TRUST ANYONE---watch him yourself & make certain he gets his medications on time!!!! NEUROLOGISTS are the ONLY Doctors who know ANYTHING about PD and unfortunately for us they are NOT Surgeons!!!!!