1 year ago yesterday my hubby picked me up in front of my school at 11:30am...and drove me to the clinic where they had betadine, booties, gown and hair net waiting (I was NPO)...An hour later I was flat on my back on the table while a pissed off anesthesiologist tried to hook me up to an i.v.

My 1hr emergency surgery lasted 3.5hrs...Dr Broutin reattached my fallen and damaged k pouch, dug an emprisioned loop of bowel out of my abdominal wall and released some nasty adhesions...

He did it all after the top dog French chief of surgery and president of the board of surgeons said that it was impossible and that my k pouch was toast or I was!

...And he did it through laporoscopy!

Never let them tell you what cannot be done...fight for your health

(Dr. Cohen's response when I emailed him and told him about it? "Now that is greatness!")

Sharon