Anyone had any experience with gallbladder removal?Follow

Is this a new opening, a newly created position, a repost, or are we looking for a replacement?

If it's a replacement, who was formerly in the position?

Yes, Lady Deadsidedemon has recently been promoted to Mistress Baiter. Her previous position within the organization is thus open.

^^^^What I meant was that there are contraindications to laparoscopy. If there are no contraindications but the surgeon doesn't know how to do it it's time for them to hang it up.

--DK

I would really really try to wait until Christmas break, or at least Thanksgiving. I will say though, they told me not to eat fatty foods and all, but I was in pain no matter what I consumed. Also, I had to wait over a month regardless, because I had no infection. It wasn't emergency.

Oh, and I lived with the pain for like 6 months diagnosed as an ulcer before that, so, it -can- be lived with, it just sucks.

You really will feel awful for the first few days to a week, I can't see you attending class. But you bounce back fast, as I sort of said. I moved out of my house two weeks after surgery with no issue.

Thanks, Katarine. Along with calling my doctor in the morning and whatever surgeon to whom he refers me, I'll be speaking with my profs to figure out just how much leeway I have if I do end up having to miss school. I have the drugs in case I get another attack, though I have a hard time imagining that I'll be terribly functional on those either, academically speaking. So, a bit screwed either way or, really. But thank you for the information, I appreciate it.

It's funny because I've been watching my ER dvds religiously and feel all 'holier than thou' now.

Okay, because the people in the TV and in my brain tell me that I'm a doctor, here's the precedure:

Step One: Obtain the following tools - a plastic knife from KFC, a plastic spork from KFC, and a cup.

Step Two: Get nekkid, photograph boobies for evidence and post said boobies on interweb for all Asylum to see.

Step Three: Make incesion with plastic knife, then procceed to poke the spork around. Move the spork to the left, and then the right. You'll know when you've hit your gallbladder when that AOL guy pops up and says "You've got spooch."

Step Four: Stab furiously at it until you've shishkabobbed it successfully. Remove from your body and put inside the cup.

Step Five: Place cup under sunlight, water twice daily, and talk lovingly to your removed organ. Eventually this little bundle of spooch will blossom into a beautiful ungodly abomination of life.

Step Six: No more painful stones! Enjoy!

Step Seven: Call Elderon a harlot because he's a dirty, dirty ***** of a lover.

My husband had his galbladder removed last month, just a week before our wedding. He also had it done laproscopically, they pulled it out from his belly button, and he had several small incisions on his abdomen. He actually had to have two procedures, because a couple of the gall stones had escaped into his bile duct and had to be removed. Expect to be very sore and bruised for a couple of weeks. They put him on a zero fat diet before the surgery and he subsisted on a lot of fat free soups which were actually not too difficult to find.

Recovery took a few weeks, be gentle on yourself until you do heal. My hubby re-opened his belly button incision dancing too much at our wedding. Be careful!

After the surgery, it takes some time for your body to re-adjust. You may find yourself not wanting to stray too far from the nearest ladies room. Oh, and last but not least, he lost at least 20 lbs. That is a slight upside depending on how you look at it.

Good luck, hope all goes well!

Yeah. "Dancing"

Sure.

Well, s[b][/b]hit.

Yoss, get off my lawn or I get the hose. I'm not kidding, this time.

Really. I'm not.

and I don't care