Anaemia After An Operation Posted: 11-23-03 14:45pm
My best friend alicia is a 23 year-old
woman who has been suffering from a severe
anaemia for more than 2 years.
She was born with a hip displasy, and
limped during her childhood and teenage.
At 20, she underwent an osteotomy in the
south of france, and the operation
didn�t prove very successful. Soon
later this operation, she began losing
weight and actually never stopped�now
she, who used to weigh 60 kg (120 pounds),
is all skin and bones. Of course she went
to the hospital, but all the examinations
only revealed that she suffered from an
unexplained anaemia. At first the doctors
were even convinced she was anorexic
(which has never been the case) and
didn�t made immediately the proper
examinations. Then she was given several
drugs, one of which is a strong dose of
morphine.
Now she has moved in another city in
france where the doctors are making new
examinations, but her health isn�t
getting better at all, and she still has
to take morphine, since she has become
addicted to it. She also has to walk with
a crutch, first because she is extremely
weak, but also because she sometimes falls
without even feeling it coming : suddenly
her left leg (the side she was operated
on) doesn�t support her anymore and she
falls while walking, which has already
hurt her quite seriously (the arms and her
head too).
No need to tell you how lost she
feels�she doesn�t know what pain is
consuming her and who could help her. I
can tell you that her mental strength has
been admirable during all these ordeals
but now her spirit seems about to collapse
too and finding a new support has become
desperately urgent.
So, please, if you have any information
about such a disease, if you know a
similar case or somebody (a doctor, an
organisation�) who could maybe help, or
if you only want to tell alicia something,
I beg of you to reply to this message,.
at this point, be sure that even a
testimony of someone�s interest in
alicia�s pain will be appreciated�.
