Archive for the Gallbladder Surgery category
April 10th, 2007
I’ve been meaning to stop by for weeks now and let everyone know that I’m alive and well.
(Ironically when I tried to stop by to leave a note, the server was down… grrrr)
Lots of changes going on around here, lots of stuff to deal with.
I’ve had my surgery now. It went very well. The surgeon said that my gallbladder was very inflamed and, of course, full of stones when they removed it (through my belly button — how?) and that I was
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Tags: gallbladder surgery, work
February 21st, 2007
I thought maybe a health update was in order too.
My MRI came back all normal. Well, except that I have gallstones. Huh. The GI guy said I need to have my gallbladder removed. Gosh, I wish someone had told me that before. ;) Anyway, no renegade gallstones; they’re all in my gallbladder, huddled together awaiting the big surgery day.
The surgery is now scheduled for March 23rd. The surgeon had to be out of town on the 16th. Oy. But at least my mother is coming to visit and now at least I won’t be spending my birthday recovering from surgery
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Tags: gallbladder, gallstones, surgery, Pug, dog
February 7th, 2007
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
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Tags: gallbladder, gallstone, MRI, surgery, wellness, health
February 2nd, 2007
I apologize for not at least popping on and saying that I survived the norovirus and that there was an epidemic at my workplace. I have no idea who the carrier was but a bunch of us came down with it all on the same day, but that Thursday afternoon we were all quite ill. There’ve been some trailing illnesses but it seems to have completed its course through this office now.
But that’s not what has kept me away.
Let me explain about the Daylight Savings Time “issue”. Remember how panicked everyone was about Y2K? No one knew what was going
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Tags: work, my life, project 365, choices, norovirus, stress
January 16th, 2007
I put in a call to my GP this morning about the pain in my stomach, right side and back, as well as my migraine, bloatiness and lack of appetite. I said straight out that I’m not going back to the E.R. (or E.D. — interesting that since that series started most actual E.R.’s now want to be called Emergency Departments) and I don’t want to pop oxycodone all the time — makes me too sleepy and discombobulated, and that’s saying something.
As it is all morning I’ve been trying to pry my eyes open. I can’t decide if it’s not
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Tags: pain, migraine, gallbladder, gallstone, surgeon, GP, grocery store, project365, sleepy
January 4th, 2007
As I mentioned in this week’s Thursday Thirteen (I wonder how many people accidentally type “thurteen”), after my experience in the emergency departement on December 15th, which I still think was a repeat of the infamous 1997 December ED experience minus the really good and fun drugs, the doctors and that pesky surgeon have come to the conclusion that perhaps now is a good time to remove my gall bladder.
Apparently, now that “one” gallstone has escaped and caused me such horrific grief, another attack could happen again at any time or it
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December 18th, 2006
Looking back in hindsight, the pain actually started Wednesday night. I mistakingly thought it was due to doing to much as is sometimes the case with my fibromyalgia. I had been going through boxes. O.K. I had gone through every single unopened box left in my house from the attic eaves to the basement to the garage. Every hiding place, trying to find some missing items that I suspect my have been “taken” by either the moving men, the cable guy(s), or the phone repair man. Anyway, my back had starting hurting and I
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Tags: Gallbladder Surgery, ER, agony
October 18th, 2006
I’ve been trying to figure out how to get the people who come here to comment more often on posts — you know, have more open dialogs, etc. So, when I come across this sort of post on one of my regular reads, I’m intrigued. However, for me, she was preaching to the choir, but I thought I’d like to pass along her tips edited with my own opinions. I’m hoping you fellow readers and passerby will add your own suggestions and thoughts to the comment section. (ah-ha!) Mind you, I’m basically going by
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Tags: bloghopping, blogs, commenting, blog traffic, trolls, spam
August 31st, 2006
So, I saw my GP yesterday afternoon. We went over the concerns of the Rheumy with the blood in the urine; plus I got a copy of the results of some of my lab work that the Rheumy did at his office. I don’t understand much of it, but I have a copy of it now. (By the way, it says I have 16 of 18 of the trigger points for myalgia but my alarming Sed rate is what keeps me from the fibromyalgia diagnosis…that’s what’s written on the paperwork.)
Anyway, one of the things that the Rheumy
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Tags: wellness, Takayasu's Arteritis, fibromyalgia, autoimmune kidney disease, IgA Nephropathy, chest cold
August 3rd, 2006
Well, I saw the surgeon yesterday and it’s taken me a while to digest what he had to say. Really I wasn’t sure how I felt about it.
The surgeon told me that he’s not going to do the surgery; he’s not convinced that it will relieve my symptoms. Yes, I have gallstones and they are indeed all sitting in there hanging about, but there’s no proof that they are menacing me in any way, he said. Apparently, he thinks my symptoms are from “something else”.
You know, that mysterious ellusive “something else” that has been haunting and taunting
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Tags: wellness, gastroenterologist, gallbladder surgery, gallstones, IBS
July 25th, 2006
J: Really, you have nothing to worry about. Those kinds of surgeries are done every day and everything’s fine. It’s like when you had LASIK.
Me: LASIK? Do you actually remember when I had LASIK?
J: um….
Me: There was all this pain? Most painful thing I did to myself on purpose? There was a problem with the surgery done on my right eye? I had to have the surgery redone 6 months later? The recovery was longer than everyone else?
J: Um… oh, yeah. Never mind. This will be better.
Me: Great now
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Tags: gallbladder surgery, LASIK
July 20th, 2006
My shrink challenged me last Tuesday to imagine waking up well one morning. Obviously, not completely well, but free of certain symptoms like my GI issues. For instance, I’ve had some sort of GI issue or another since I was 18 years old. I don’t really remember what life was like for my body prior to that.
What would it be like to wake up one morning and not have “issues”?
Coincidentally, the last two days, as if God were trying to tell me something, I’ve had horrible stomach issues despite any kind of medication or attempts at bland
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Tags: wellness, gallbladder surgery, acid reflux, GI
July 18th, 2006
I had my ultrasound this morning. My spleen, my kidneys, and my liver didn’t betray me, but my gallbladder…
I’ve always prided myself on being all original parts and all in one piece, except for my wisdom teeth — I had no control over that. My parents were still in co-ownership of my person at that time. 
Now, apparently I have gallstones. The tech told me that they’re caused by dairy, which doesn’t make sense to me since dairy is supposed to be one of those things nutritionists tell us we need more of. Granted, Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: acid reflux, gallstones, gallbladder surgery
