It's all good

So, how have I been spending the first week of 2010? Sitting on my rear in front of the tv mostly. Ugh. I'm sick of it.

I had the gallbladder surgery on Monday. What should have taken an hour and a half took them four and a half hours! I think Doug was getting pretty worried, he said even moreso when it was over and the dr. called him back into his consult room and Doug said there were couches and boxes of tissues all over! Wow, that woulda scared me!

Turns out I had some kind of extra blood supply vein to my gallbladder, and they had to follow it to see where it was coming from and how to deal with it. Then I guess my gallbladder was 1/4-inch thick when it's usually very thin, and they had to cut it out in pieces and be very careful.

I'm so thankful I went with Dr. Johnson and not the first guy I saw. The people at Unity Hospital in Coon Rapids are awesome. They treat you mighty fine! : ) They did send me out the door though around 6pm, and I was still very unsteady on my feet and slept the whole way home and then some. I figure between the actual surgery time and the next time I got out of bed in the morning I was sleeping for about 19 hours. Wow.

So today's Thursday, and I will actually leave the house for a little bit this afternoon with Doug. It's dang cold out and that's not fun, but it'll be good to get out of here for a bit. I'm getting sorta bored (although I do have end-of-the-year paperwork to do) and tired of sitting and laying. I'm actually feeling pretty good, moreso each day, as I move around. My stomach itches where the plastic band-aids are, I wanna rip them off but shouldn't. And I can hear some gas still trapped inside, when I roll over to my side I can feel it move and it sounds like a loud stomach grumble. Sorta funny, but it can leave any time now...

So now I get to re-test out what I can and can't eat. Greasy foods might give me problems like diarrhea, we'll see. I ate a couple squares of pizza last night, a little grease but not bad and had no problems. Ah joy, more to learn.

I hope I'm done with surgeries for a while, although I do still need some leg/vein work done. Ugh. I have a new empathy for people with chronic illnesses. I need to be more appreciative for my health, cause it's usually pretty darn good.