Gall Bladder surgery

[mose]

Hey guys......

I had gall bladder sugery on Monday so am moving kinda slow right now. It had been buggin' me for a while and I needed to get it done before softball season started. I went in at 9AM and was home by 2PM. Spent most of Monday in bed and am up moving around now....but very slowly. Lots of vicodin and lots of time watching movies. I have a detial scheduled for Saturday....so wish me luck!!

Anyone else had to go through this? If so, how long were ya down?

[ZoranC]

Originally Posted by mose

Anyone else had to go through this?

If you mean gal bladder removal I had and I wish I had a way to avoid it as it radically changes the way you digest food for the rest of yoru life. You might all of the sudden find some things or ingredients or even cooking processes you used to eat without any problems cause sharp doubling over pain or almost instant violent diarrheas. Way some cook in some restaurant prepares some sauce will not affect you while same (on surface) sauce in different restaurant will affect you, or even different cook in same restaurant. Be carefull with dairy products and anything that contains fat until you learn. Consult reputable medical Web sites to learn more about it.

[velobard]

You're already miles ahead of me. I had mine in 2001. It caught me totally by surprise, I never picked up on the warning signs I got a few times before it really hit me one day. They also discovered a small hernia right in the way of doing the lap surgery, so I got a 2-for-1 special in the OR. Let's just say it didn't exactly go as planned. I had the operation on morning, had to go for endoscopy the next morning to break up stones blocking the bile duct the next day, had *serious* pain issues (morphine barely touched it) until 2 days later when the doc came to check the wound and found my innards hanging out because the stitches ripped. IMHO there was no excuse for that, I'd just been laying in bed the whole time and I'm still convinced he just did a lousy job on them in the first place. Anyway, back to the OR again for emergency surgery, then recovered in the hospital for several more days before I could finally go home. I was in for 9 days and couldn't return to my office job for nearly a month.

[ZoranC]

Originally Posted by mose

I have a detial scheduled for Saturday....so wish me luck!!

DANGER ALERT: Consult your physician are you able to do detail this soon after surgery.

[ZoranC]

Originally Posted by velobard

It caught me totally by surprise, I never picked up on the warning signs I got a few times before it really hit me one day.

Well, mine was sending me to the ER something like at least twice a week for almost a month and none of them there, nor my primary physician, picked up on the signs of what it could be until it was too late. By that time I had another ending in the ER that was so severe it called for emergency surgery/removal.

It took one second look without even touching me from "no-BS-street-wise" ER doctor of unshelved outside appearance (kind that shows he doesn't care about outside, that he cares about what matters) to correctly diagnose what number of pompous ones couldn't diagnose for a month.

Remembering that upsets me a lot because I believe surgery and removal and lifetime consenquences of it were avoidable by using alternative treatment methods if it was diagnosed correctly early enough.

I wish I had a way of making them pay for that.

[mose]

I have a buddy coming over to help me but if I am not up for it I will cancel....the customer is expecting a call. Don't worry I am not gonna push it!