gottaspin77
Who Needs a Gall Bladder, Really?
Oct 08, 2009
Last Saturday night I was suddenly (and I mean SUDDENLY) hit with abdomenal pain that was so horrendous that no position or amount of movement could make it stop. I ended up going to the ER. Long story short, my gall bladder decided to throw a stone into my pancreatic duct and plug it up for a while, causing pancreatitis and my liver to enlarge. Very painful, to say the very least.The surgeon took my gall bladder out twelve hours after I was admitted in. I feel pretty good, although the fella who placed my intubation tube either suffered from blindness or a bad case of the shakes because he scratched the roof of my mouth, uvula and throat. And it felt like my jaw had been busted with a ball bat. I ended up getting a mouth infection and an abscess on my uvula. I was unable to eat and lost 7lbs in 4 days. I'm still on antibiotics, but I'm able to eat again.
Here's something predictably amazing; I can poop!!!!!! I'm on a prescription pill normally. I haven't had to take my pill in three days and I'm pooping like a real, normal person!! Had I realized sooner the benefits of not having a gall bladder, I woulda yanked the sucker out myself!
Anywho, I'm doing well and now have 11 incisions in my abdomen. Oh, well. I hadn't planned on entering any bikini competitions anyways!
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08/27/2008
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Jan 31, 2008
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