You've Got Some Gall!

... but not anymore!!

It started just after midnight on Sunday. Severe and constant abdominal pain. I've had episodes like that before when I eat like a teenager ( which I do a lot ). The usual remedies weren't working at all. Tums with Gas Relief and a cup of peppermint tea usually do the trick for me. Not this time. I was miserable ALL day. Nothing I did gave me even 5 minutes of relief. I hurt so bad I couldn't sleep. The pain kept me awake most of the night. Monday morning it was more of the same. Except the abdominal pain was so bad that I was walking bent over. I hadn't eaten anything all day. I wasn't really hungry but figured I should eat something. So I scrambled 3 eggs, sprinkled it with a little shredded cheese, and had a few grapes on the side. That's it. I didn't even have coffee! About 2 hours later, every bit of my breakfast came up...5 times. I knew then this was something different than I'd experienced in the past from eating too much spicy food. For the past 3 years, Frank and I pick up my grandson from school and take him to dance or swimming lessons. I'm the self-appointed driver. But on Monday I couldn't do it. I stayed home and Frank had to handle the transportation back and forth to dance class himself. I'd endured18 hours of unrelenting abdominal pain so I sent Frank a message and told him when he got back, we needed to go to ER.

We got to ER about an hour before the Texans-Steelers WC game. Needless to say I hardly watched any of the game. I was too busy suffering. I followed along a little by watching the box score on ESPN.com. They took me back and forth during the evening for an EKG, bloodwork, a CAT scan and finally registration. Typical of most Emergency Rooms, it's a lot of hurry up and wait. Around 11 p.m. they wheeled me back to a room in ER for a consult with the ER doctor. He said "your bloodwork is abnormal and your gallbladder is full of stones plus it's infected. It needs to come out so we are scheduling you for surgery in the morning and we are admitting you right now. Oh and you can't have anything to eat or drink. Not even water." They removed my gall bladder at 10:00 a.m. yesterday. I'm doing good all things considered. I coughed and felt like someone had shot my tummy out of a cannon. If the post-surgery stats look good (and they have so far) I'll be discharged today. The hospital is only 3 miles from our house and 3 miles from my daughter's house. So the fact that it is nearby is convenient for our family. I just hope they send me home with some good pain meds!

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/14/2026 03:54AM by MamaRAMa.