Surgery Scheduled
It's the morning (3:00 am) of my gallbladder surgery. No food or drink after midnight, but I snuck in a cup of coffee so I wouldn't get a caffeine headache later.What happened to cause the need for surgery was at about 1:00 am Tuesday morning, I got up and had some potato chips and Cheetoes. I don't know why, why am I even a night eater? I went back to bed and woke up around 3 because I was in pain. I thought it would go away eventually, but it didn't. It kept getting worse so around 6:00am I think, it had become about the worst pain I had ever known and was still getting worse. Mark was all dressed and getting ready to leave for work when I asked him to take me to the emergency room. We only live about 3 miles away from the hospital, but that was a long 3 miles!When I started to tell the lady at the desk why I was there, I started crying a little. It was a feeling of helplessness, I didn't had couldn't possibly know if they could help me. I really thought they wouldn't find anything wrong with me which would have been bad. I needed an explanation for the severe pain so I could avoid it happening again.The nurse gave me pain medication right away through an IV and when I was feeling more comfortable, they ran a CAT scan. Not that long afterwards, the doctor came and told me I had innumerous gall stones and one was blocking the duct or whatever and to make sure I eat very low fat meals t...
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