As you read this I am maybe in theater, or maybe I’ve made it into recovery. Maybe I’m already on the ward, resting up. One way or another, I am currently in hospital to have my gallbladder removed.
Things were going along fine and then BAM! – I was struck with an eleven hour attack which started in the day (which never happened for me), just as I was feeling better from that I had another (also lasting 11 hours in total) which was followed by a 5 hour attack the next day. I couldn’t eat and was completely wiped out for weeks after.
The doctor I saw got the ball rolling for me to see a surgeon, which I did and then I went about life thinking I had months to sit on the waiting list, then less than two weeks ago I got the call and it’s been a whirlwind of appointments since.
I was almost ready to call it all off just the other day, contemplating leaving Felix for a night while he’s still breastfed, thinking of poor James having to figure out my very ‘complex’ organisation of our life (it’s a shambles, poor man) and everything happening so fast had my anxiety sky rocketing. Then, I was hit with 23 hours of straight agony. I couldn’t keep liquids down and sleep was the only thing that didn’t hurt but getting to sleep in the first place was a difficult task.
After that, I was all “Bring on Tuesday.”
At the time of writing this, I’m a mixture of thrilled I won’t have to go through that pain again and nervous about the whole thing.
And, now it is Tuesday.
What are you up to today?
Tell me something to cheer me up or keep my mind off my pain/missing my family.
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