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To: skinowski who wrote (477817)	3/21/2012 10:12:24 AM
From: Little Joe	Respond to of 793917

I am no doctor but I strongly agree. I probably avoided cancer because of this procedure and my MIL also. lj

To: skinowski who wrote (477817)	3/21/2012 10:12:24 AM
From: Zakrosian	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793917

The case you described is unusual. Clearly, there is no direct connection between being pocked around in the colon and becoming quadriplegic. Something unrelated must have happened. No, it was definitely related to the procedure, as the doctor conceded - she suffered a ruptured spleen. Very rare, but it does occur. If we had a "loser pays" policy regarding lawsuits, we may have come to a different conclusion. And I have no doubt that you're right about the value of colonoscopies and that my reluctance to have one is completely irrational.

To: skinowski who wrote (477817)	3/21/2012 10:25:09 AM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 793917

Quadriplegia from a colostomy is pretty hard to believe. I worked in a spinal rehabilitation hospital before I went in the military. The most unusual case I saw there was a guy who had been operating a jack hammer and a blood vessel in his neck by his spinal cord ruptured and formed a clot on his spinal cord. He was in bad shape. His body was in an almost perpetual spasm often making it totally rigid. He would be so stiff we could hardly bend him to put him in a wheelchair. * * *