I made a completely unanticipated 6 day hospital stay after a totally unprecedented emergency room visit last Saturday night. Got back home last night, minus my gall bladder. It's been quite a trip. My surgeon says on a scale of sick gall bladders mine was up near the top and not too far from rupturing.
Who knew?
I had been having some upper abdominal pains, along with aches and slight fever, that I initially thought was flu, then decided it wasn't acting like typical flu and began to consider gall bladder; but it wasn't typical of that either -- no nausea or vomiting. Just me being different, I suppose.
My surgeon had hoped to deliver said g.b. through a teensy laparoscope hole, but it would likely have ruptured and, in fact, did leak a tad even so. So I now have an 8" scar along the edge of my rib cage -- and a much longer recovery cycle. But I'm on target and have no complications.
I'm home and mending well. I'll shortly be back in the fray of adding my two cents to the day's events.
Ralph
Saturday, November 13, 2010
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