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I was just talking to my parents on the phone, and in the middle of the conversation my dad announced very abruptly that he "felt like crap" and had to go. My mom was as puzzled by this as I was, and said that earlier in the day he'd been complaining that his stomach hurt, but that it hadn't been *that* bad. Anyway, about five minutes later he told her he needed to go to the emergency room. No idea what the problem is at this point. She'll be calling me from the emergency room to let me know what's going on, but in the meantime positive thoughts/vibes/prayers wouldn't be out of order.
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I've talked to my mom. She doesn't know anything yet, but I can tell that she doesn't think anything is seriously the matter, which is definitely an encouraging sign. I'll post as I learn more about what's going on.
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Gall bladder not fun but also not as bad as it could have been. {{{Noemon and parental units}}}
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Ah, I'm doing okay. I was more worried before I heard that it was a gall bladder problem really. I'm waiting to hear more news this morning.
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Apparently he's got a combination of gall bladder stones and a fairly severe infection. They're going to go in arthroscopically and remove his gall bladder later this afternoon.
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What kind of infection? From his gall bladder? I've recently been told I have gall stones and one of my doctors even suggested I should have it out, but most of what I've found contradicts that advice. But, now you've got me curious as to what could happen if I just wait and something does happen.
Of course, if the infection is unrelated to his gall bladder, then nevermind.
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The infection is actually in his gall bladder, unless I'm misunderstanding something (which is entirely possible--I'm getting all of my information second hand through my mother). From what little reading I've had time to do this morning it seems to me that removing the thing is a bit of an extreme reaction, but the details I have are sketchy enough that I'm not really in a position to say.
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When the gall bladder really starts going bad (as mine did) it starts messing with your white blood cell counts and a few other things in your liver. I'm guessing that's where the infection came in. I had to stay on antibiotics for a while too after it came out. My bloodwork was so off when I went in, that they wouldn't let me leave the hospital. Most of the time, if it hasn't gotten to that stage, they will let you go home on painkiller and schedule you as a more routine surgery.
The pain for me, felt as if someone was stabbing me with a knife in my chest. It radiated all the way through to my back, not uncommon apparently for gall bladder problems.
The good thing is that gall bladder stuff is pretty easily fixed, and removing it is one of the most common surgical procedures in the US. He'll proably have occasional acid reflux afterwards, but nothing really serious.
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Interesting also. Gallbladders, appear to be considered by doctors as one of the more painful things in existence. I was quite surprised that they put me on a straight morphine drip for the pain. I didn't think my pain was *that* bad, it only had me curled up in a fetal position a couple of times.
They put me on something different after the surgery. Whatever the other stuff was, I could feel it burn going up the blood vessel from the IV in my arm and it got worse as time went on, so I weaned myself off of it pretty fast. They gave me one of those little button things, where I could push it if I was in too much pain but the computer won't let you over medicate.
After that I was on vicadin for a while, but I was off of that pretty quick too because I don't like what it does to my brain.
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Oh yes, and to my understanding, if things have gotten so bad as to mess up your blood work, pretty much the thing *has* to come out, it isn't an over reaction at all. The doc said I was within 24 hours of a "major crisis". He didn't go into detail as to what would have happened with the crisis, but he said it in a somber enough tone it sounded quite scary.
Has your father been having heartburn problems and taking lots of antacids? I was convinced that my attacks were just heartburn and stress, before the last attack that put me in the hospital.
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He hasn't mentioned having heartburn to me, but it's entirely possible that it didn't seem interesting enough for him to mention. I'll ask him about it when I talk to him tonight.
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Thanks guys. The surgeon successfully removed his gall bladder, and apparently it was horribly, horrbily infected. They're keeping him in the hospital another day or two to monitor him and help get him on the road to being completely purged of the infection, but he's going to be fine.
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