Goodbye, Gallbladder
Jun. 5th, 2014 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarotgalSo I just got home from another GI (who was super sweet and quiet and good at listening; I like doctors who listen). He read through my 28 pages of test results (which didn't include the two recent blood work batches, the X-Rays, or the CT scan results) and examined me and asked a bunch of questions. He recommended that I get my gallbladder out, even though my symptoms aren't typical for that.
So, I'll be having the surgery next Tuesday. I'm going to spend the next few days writing out passwords and instructions just in case things go horribly wrong. But it's pretty routine, as far as surgery goes, so I'm only a bit worried. Mostly, I'm just hopeful that this will fix part of me. I'd love to be able to eat and drink like a normal person again. Not that I don't love bananas and applesauce and saltines and rice... but after 8 months of that, I'm losing way too much weight and I have no energy. Also, my stomach did bad things the last two times I ate rice. *sigh*
Anyhoo, I got test results from my MRI yesterday as well. I don't know what they mean because I don't speak medical, for all my h/c love, but there are words like tear and unusual convexity... so it sounds like the MRI definitely picked up something that might be causing the problem I've felt in my hip for the past 20 years. Would be awesome if it could be identified or even fixed as well!
But, first the gallbladder surgery. Then we'll see where we are. I just bought the special soap I'm supposed to start using on Saturday/Sunday. And I'm going to try to get all my work for next week taken care of today and this weekend so that I don't have to worry about it next week when I'm recovering.
I'm still going to see the Fault in Our Stars tomorrow night... I expect to cry through the whole thing :-)
So, I'll be having the surgery next Tuesday. I'm going to spend the next few days writing out passwords and instructions just in case things go horribly wrong. But it's pretty routine, as far as surgery goes, so I'm only a bit worried. Mostly, I'm just hopeful that this will fix part of me. I'd love to be able to eat and drink like a normal person again. Not that I don't love bananas and applesauce and saltines and rice... but after 8 months of that, I'm losing way too much weight and I have no energy. Also, my stomach did bad things the last two times I ate rice. *sigh*
Anyhoo, I got test results from my MRI yesterday as well. I don't know what they mean because I don't speak medical, for all my h/c love, but there are words like tear and unusual convexity... so it sounds like the MRI definitely picked up something that might be causing the problem I've felt in my hip for the past 20 years. Would be awesome if it could be identified or even fixed as well!
But, first the gallbladder surgery. Then we'll see where we are. I just bought the special soap I'm supposed to start using on Saturday/Sunday. And I'm going to try to get all my work for next week taken care of today and this weekend so that I don't have to worry about it next week when I'm recovering.
I'm still going to see the Fault in Our Stars tomorrow night... I expect to cry through the whole thing :-)
