For 5 years my wife has been experiencing a lump below her ribs on her right side. When she first noticed it, it was the size of a golf ball. We went to several doctors. None of them could dtermine the cause. Over time the lump seemed to come and go, always increasing with size. Now it’s the size of a bannana. Some one suggested to us that it might be a hernia. We took this information to the doctor and, sure enough, she diagnosed it as that. Surgery was schedualed right away. For some reason, though, the doctor went into the groin area to fix the hernia. This was odd because my wife never mentioned anything about that area and after the surgery she still had the original lump. When we asked the doctor, she stated that there was a hernia there and she did correct it, but that there must be a second hernia higher up. She was very persistant that this was the case and even gave it a specific name: Spleringeti (?) Hernia. My wife went into surgery a second time, this time they went in with a scope and took pictures. They could not find the secind hernia, determined that there wasn’t one, and decided that they needed to remove the appendix. They did this without consulting us, but assured us that it was the problem. After looking at the lab results, we found that the appendix was perfectly healthy and did not need to be removed. My wife stil has the lump and the pain associated with it is increasing.
Pete A.
