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I should be home tomarrow night or Wednesday morning. I’ll be back to work Friday. ( I’m just sitting behind a desk right now. Should start back at the doggie groomers the end of April.) 😉
Laurie wrote:Soooooo, I was wondering how many here has had to have theirs out?
Good thing you caught yours ahead of time. I had no idea what my excruciating stomach pains were – they generally went away after a couple of hours – until my wife finally said “OK, 12 hours for a stomach ache like that is too much” and dragged me to the ER.
The doctor asked Linda if I was normally yellow. It turned out I was approaching liver failure and would have died within a few hours if she’d not taken me in. They pumped me full of antibiotics for a couple of days, tried laparoscopy but couldn’t fight their way in, immediately put me back under with a second round of anaesthetic (the Insurance company was incredulous at that), and opened me up to remove my gallbladder like they used to do in the old days.
Hopefully you won’t have any aftershock from your procedure. My thyroid crapped out on me (took 18 months to diagnose the awesome list of increasingly severe symptoms I began to have) but I can probably blame that on the double whammy of anaesthetic rather than anything to do with having had my gallbladder removed.
One thing to remember is you’ll not be able to handle a whole lot of fried food in a single meal. Spread that meal out over the day and you’ll be perfectly fine. Your gallbladder isn’t like an appendix; it does have a useful regulatory function. But you can easily live without it.
I’m inclined to blame my lack of a gallbladder on the fact that I am gaining weight around my stomach (I tend to not spread my meals out through the day as I should) but when I look around me I’m astounded at how many guys have bulging stomachs worse than mine. So it may just be a male/age thing.
Have fun tomorrow! Until they took away my self-medicating button on the morphine drip, I know I had a blast. (But then all you should need are a couple of Vicodin, after the regular operation, I’d guess. That’s only so-so fun!)
The Castle [Dave wrote:“]
Hopefully you won’t have any aftershock from your procedure. My thyroid crapped out on me (took 18 months to diagnose the awesome list of increasingly severe symptoms I began to have) but I can probably blame that on the double whammy of anaesthetic rather than anything to do with having had my gallbladder removed.
Ugh, thyroid slacking off sucks. Haven’t had anything out, it just sort of… stopped working. So I get pills to do its job for it.
Will be thinking of you tomorrow! Hope all goes well and the only side effects you have are extra stinky farts!!!! XD
UPDATE–WITH LAURIE’S PERMISSION. Talked to her just a while ago and she is doing fine! Yaaaaay! 😀 Of course she was a bit drowsy and she is sore but depending on how she feels, she may go home tonight. She impressed them by already getting up to go to the bathroom. But she made it through and as far as she knows, no complications. But on a disappointing note–she does not have one of those self-medicating morphine drips darn like Dave The Castle did. 😆 Life is just not fair sometimes!! 🙄
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