Fortuitous Turn…Kind Of

Well, it turns out that postponing my surgery might have been an extremely fortuitous turn of events though I was bullied into it by my co-workers who wanted to make sure I did my share of the work while they went on vacation.  Heh.

I’ve been seeing a GI Specialist, you know, and he happened to notice that no one followed up on one particular piece of blood work after my visit to the ER in December when I had my Gallstone attack.  Something about some liver enzyme level or something being high.  Anyway, this could apparently be a sign that I didn’t actually pass all the Gallstones that have come out of my Gallbladder.  One of them could just be loose in the duct, which could explain why I’ve been having painful mini-episodes and twitches that the other doctors and my parents have basically written off as some sort of ghost pangs or spasms.

What’s worse is that if the surgeon goes and takes my Gallbladder out before they do something about the renegade gallstone then it could get lodged in one of the passageways to one of my other organs like my pancreas and cause a major infection.  Apparently right now, the Gallbladder is providing bile or something to help keep it from being really problematic.

That is, if there’s a renegade gallstone.  The truth is that no one knows for sure.

Last week I had my liver enzyme level or whatever checked again and it’s still elevated so I’m off next week to have an MRI of my duct to see if there’s a gallstone hanging out in there playing hookie or something.  If there is, then I have to have yet another procedure where they’ll go in and take it out before they operate on me to remove my gallbladder.

My mother always told me growing up that I always had to do everything the hard way.

Anyway, if I hadn’t postponed my surgery, which had been scheduled for last Friday, I could be finding out the really hard way that I have a loose gallstone, so it could be worse I guess.

tags: gallbladder, gallstone, MRI, surgery, wellness, health

4 comments

1. on February 7, 2007 at 5:41 pm

   Laughing Muse said:

   Yeah…but I’d still document everything Stinky Asshat Coworkers do and get out of there.

   Good luck with the ongoing situation (with your gallbladder, not at work - though good luck with Tweedledum and Tweedledummer, too.)

2. on February 7, 2007 at 7:41 pm

   Atomic Bombshell said:

   Yikes! Hope you get it handled soon.

3. on February 8, 2007 at 4:19 pm

   Susan said:

   I’m so glad that guy is on the ball and that your surgery had been postponed - I’m glad too that the n-virus is behind you - take good care, I’ll keep sending you renegade-gallstone capture vibes (are there renegade-gallstone posses or something?

4. on February 17, 2007 at 6:59 am

   Omni said:

   Thank goodness they’re going to check this out before it’s too late!! xo

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