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If you have the option, I would strongly recommend you have the procedure done laproscopically. It's a much less traumatic event for your body, your risk of infection is much lower, because the incisions are very small, the recovery time is much quicker and less painful.

Edited, Sun Oct 9 17:09:21 2005 by Yanari

Sh[/i]it. Really, really, sh[i]it. I was hoping to have the surgery done on Friday (the only day I don't have class) and then be back at school on Monday. From what you are describing, Katarine, that's not going to be an option.

The campus parking lot tends to be pretty full, so it's a very long hike from car to class, and depending on which side of campus you are on, uphill either coming or going, dragging 30lbs of textbooks in a wheel-along backpack. Maybe I can get a temporary handicapped parking permit. However, I don't have many clothing options if you rule out jeans, because I got rid of most everything else when I decided to be a full-time student, and my body type is such that no bra = bad.

Being out of school for a week is going to be all sorts of badness. If I avoid any and all fatty foods, I might be able to make it through the next ten weeks until winter break without another attack, maybe, but I'm not going to gamble on that. I seriously do not want to experience any more pain like I had yesterday.

There is no good here whatsoever. Sh[/i]it.

[i]Edited, Sun Oct 9 18:11:46 2005 by Ambrya

A real man uses a spoon and some chopsticks.

I hear that once you get it out, if you cook it it will taste like a really juicy steak.

That's called a small shovel you moran.

Only if served with fava beans and a nice chianti.

If only there were some sort of "medical professionals" you could ask these questions. Maybe even the ones that diagnosed you.

Oh well, thank god we have internet message boards.

Ambrya. It's the asylum. If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Rate ups for Tricky! Lord knows I don't do that too often!





Edited, Sun Oct 9 20:13:25 2005 by Elderon

Random anonymous internet personalities are a good thing to get upset over.

Let's put this all into perspective. I tell people to go f[/b]uck themselves just for posting anything because I felt like it. It makes for good entertainment especially when they get all /butthurt. No one here knows you from Adam, you posted some personal sh[b]it, and got some feedback that you didn't like. That was a TAME response.

If you can't take feedback that does not suit your agenda, then you do not have the skin thickness that is required to post here. That's how it is, how its always been and how it always will be. There are no exceptions. Hence my comment and I reiterate, if you can't take the heat, get the f[b][/b]uck out of the kitchen.

Offhand, if the symptoms have dissipated you can gamble and not have the surgery right now.

Lots of people have gallstones for which the live their lives in asymptomatic bliss. Every once in awhile, though, one gets stuck and it hurts like a mother.

You got one stuck and if you're better now it's no longer stuck. You can gamble that another won't get stuck and hold off on the surgery until a later date.

Of course, just like in Vegas you could lose that bet and again have a bout with agony, vomiting and the potential for infection.

As far as the recovery period that depends mostly on you. If you're the type of person who goes to the emergency department because you sprained your ankle and want some vicodins then you may be laid out longer than other people. But, assume that you'll not be wanting to do something for about a week.

And finally, you don't really get to 'choose' the method the surgeon uses. If they feel that they can do it with a laparoscope they likely will. There is always the risk they'll have to open you up anyways if they're unable to do it with the scope, though.

Good luck, though. Gallstones suck.

--DK

and stop dissing on the emergency room doctors. they're doctors too, you know.

Very true, it's hard to ask for medical advice while ******** the doctor. If I was a doctor, people might actually listen to me when I tell them to show me their boobs.

My mother had hers removed, I know she can no longer consume greasy fried foods and carbonated beverages (she does anyway). She was in and out pretty quick. Do you have any other options as far as Dr.'s go? Maybe one witha more open schedule?