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Still Inconvenient
March 8th, 2010
This month’s postcard! I totally forgot, thanks for the reminder.
November 16, 1915
Miss Martha B.
Scranton PA
Friday eve, 7 P.M.
Please Pardon me for not writing Wed. eve as I promised. Am just as busy as can be. Mr. Nichols is away on his vacation and you know what that means! Ha! Will write as soon as convenient.
Fred
I think Mr. Nichols went to rehab. Or maybe a quick stay at the sanitarium. Speaking of crazy people, I am still working on this whole Lexapro withdrawal thing, although it is much, much better.
In November I started getting this crazy weird pain in my side. It really was more annoying then painful. Since I am prone to hypochondriacism I googled it and then I ignored it until February. When it still did not go away I went to the Doctor. She sent me for a full abdominal ultrasound (no fun when not knocked up!). It showed nothing. So last week I went for a dye scan thing. Turns out when the ob/gyn pumped me full of estrogen last fall to stop that other problem(when I looked for a link to that whiny post I realized I never told you about it. Good for me. It fell into the waywayway tmi category anyway.) (it still was not caused by breastfeeding! Was not!) the doctors may have over done it. That particular medicine turned to sludge in my gallbladder. Ew. No stones, just sticky goo clogging up the works.
I got the test results back today…..and my gallbladder is only functioning at 26%. Not good. Just in time for my brain to be clear I am going to have to have surgery. Boo. In other words? Blogging is still not super convenient, but I promise I have written dozens of lovely posts in my head!
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I know all about gallbladder surgery! I had mine taken out the year I got pregnant and recovered pretty nicely. Mine was in a bad spot as well – one more attack and it would have ruptured and, well, we won’t think about that.
The surgery itself is – well, you are knocked out. Who knows how the surgery goes? The recovery time afterwards is MUCH quicker than a c-section, yet, just as intense for the first 3 days.
As always – walk as soon as you can after surgery. The drain hole is where most of my pain was. You will have 3-4 scars as I do. One near the top of your chest where the camera goes in (how sci-fi is that?!?). They also remove your gallbladder from your belly button. My husband STILL freaks out over that. Of course then there is the drain tube – and that was a bit more of a pain to recover from, yet still very easy.
My belly button area got infected a tiny bit post-surgery due to me having, well, a big belly, and not a lot of air could get to it. No big deal, though – my husband cleaned it out for me each night and it healed up real quick.
Seriously – need to chat about this? Let me know. I’m a friggin’ expert at having/recovering from belly surgeries (having 2 in 2 years).
By the way: the surgery team at (edit to close to home for anonymous blog!)was AMAZING. I dunno where you are going to have yours taken out but I recommend them. Then again – I was living in (edit) at the time and the drive wasn’t that bad.
It will be at local hospital Liz!
Do you have any problems now? Digestively speaking?
Oh – oh – oh! More fun.
Post surgery not having a gallbladder body can be real funny sometimes. I am just now getting to the point that I can drink orange juice and it doesn’t come out of my butt (yes – BUTT) 3 minutes after I drink it.
Be prepared after you eat most anything the first month or so – be near a bathroom. You never know what is going to send you flying. I still can’t eat many types of leafy greens without having to go to the bathroom about 10 minutes later. After a while you get used to it and eat what you want anyways.
My friend Brenda once told me she knows where all the public bathrooms are located in the North Little Rock area due to not having a gallbladder. *laughs* Don’t get freaked out by that – because your body does return to normal. BUT – our gallbladder is there for a reason – to help break down foods.
Have a good sense of humor about it. Thankfully I have an amazing husband who laughed along with me when I proclaimed: I just pooped orange juice!!!
Oh – when it comes to pain now? None. I have none. I love it. LOVE NOT HAVING A GALLBLADDER. It is worth the poops on occasion. I still eat a wonderful salad bar almost every week knowing full well that it will come out of me soon enough.
Up side? You will never be constipated. You will never have pains.
Oh – and your doctor will probably tell you that you can eat whatever you want to once your gallbladder is removed. Don’t believe him/her. They all say that.
(I am one of about seven people I know that have had their gallbladders removed. We’ve ALL heard that one.)
Oh dear. You see I am a total prude about things like that. Really I am a total prude about most things–but in our house potty issues stay in the potty with the door shut and are not discussed. Ever. )okay possible exception made for the freshly potty trained three year old.) Having to announce “issues” to the whole room wold give palpitations!
A gal at work (age 26!!) had hers removed last August and she recovered nicely. Her doctor told her to cut back on the sweets, but she didn’t really listen. She is a sweets-aholic!!
Yuck on the gallbladder! Hopefully you get it out soon and start to feeling better quickly! Just be careful because I’m pretty sure they’ll give you some sort of antibiotic post-op and we all know what can happen when you’re on antibiotics… Just ask Mrs. Slack. That’s how she has a two-year-old!
I had no antibiotics – just pain meds.
and I have had antibiotics many many times in the seven years I have been married–I also am married to the birth control police so no worries there. It would have to be a major flaw/fail in contraception for me to get pg without trying because we are just THAT careful.
Why am I just reading this?
I’ve failed with blogging for the last couple of weeks…both in reading them and posting them. Dang. I thought I was on course to do better. What can I say? Work has been crazy, and I’ve been insanely busy!!!
You should e-mail me/call me and let me know when this is all happening.
Get better quickly! You guys, as always, are in my prayers!
Man, it is driving me CRAZY. What DID it mean? That Mr. Nichols was away on his vacation? Did it mean, “I’m throwing wild parties and the clean-up is a &$%*!!?” or maybe, “He’s gone, and WOW, I’m actually getting some rest without having to wait hand and foot on him”? Or, “He’s gone, the coast is clear…skedaddle up here as fast as you can for a visit.”?
It is driving me CRAZY…please, tell me that somebody in your family knows who this Mr. Nichols was and what, exactly, it meant when he was away on “vacation”.
Sorry, I found Mr. Nichols a better topic that gallbladder surgery…FFiL wants his removed and now, I’m thinking, “Over my dead body.” No way I want to clean out his drain tube NOR do I want to deal with the bathroom topic. ugh