Fred Vanderbom is a retired church pastor who is enjoying a varied and productive life with his beloved in the beautiful Land of Oz. Check out my Flickr photos and Fred’s Pages blogsite for more about me.
A lifetime of reflection on the various effects of very early surgery that saved my life but messed me up somewhat emotionally, together with the ease of networking and interacting via the internet, have truly “come together”.
All my life I’ve been intrigued by this surgery, and for more than 15 years I have read information websites and on-line journal articles about many of its aspects. I have had some fascinating, affirmative, heart-rending and heart-warming correspondence with fellow survivors and parents. They have taught me I am not a freak after all, but belong to a sizeable minority affected by PTSD (albeit thankfully mild in my case). It’s been found that PTSD can result from several of the circumstances that can come with very early surgery.
Although I have no formal medical training or professional medical experience, I have read widely in this field over many years – with the mind and heart of somebody with strong “people-skills” who has had over 40 years of pastoral training and rich life experience.
So what you will find here must not be read as personal professional medical advice, but as a forum of published information, I trust tastefully spiced with something of others’ and my own personal experiences.
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