It was 8:30 Tuesday night. I had just crawled into bed and gotten comfortable when the phone rang. It was my surgeon himself, telling me to go to the ER immediately. He'd just seen my test results and was going to have me admitted and run a CT scan that night.
Apparently I'm one of the oddballs who has a wayward gallstone that escapes before or during surgery, goes where it doesn't belong, and wreaks havoc along the way. Yesterday at noon, they put me back on a ventilator so they could stick cameras and little grabby things down my throat to find that problem gallstone, then they installed a temporary stent to patch a leak it had caused.
I have to go back in 4-6 weeks to have the stent removed, but everything is looking good now. I was released from the hospital just before lunchtime today after they determined that my liver is back to functioning the way it should. I'm tired, and my dog is attached to me like velcro, but hopefully it'll really be smooth sailing from here on out. I'm just kicking myself now that I didn't go to the ER on Saturday when I first began having trouble. 🙄
Thank you all for the prayers and good thoughts!
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wow you are so lucky that he looked closer and found the problem.. so glad ..just wonderful and so glad all is going to be good...love and many more prayers to keep it going good ...take care and stay safe and get some much needed sleep and rest ...many blessings ...
oh my gosh! That sounded kinda scary. How wonderful the Doc saw it and it could be fixed. Wishing you a speedy recovery and no more 🎵Rolling Stones for you! lol
What good care you are getting from your surgeon! I'm so glad to hear that you are recovering and that your liver is behaving ! That must greatly relieve your worries.
lol. I've been half in love with him since the day we met. Too bad he's married and doesn't look any older than 12. But he's been great every step of the way. I don't know what time he started working on Tuesday, but he saw me in his office around 9:30 that morning, waited at the hospital to see me 12 hours later after making all the arrangements while my son drove me there, then came back the next morning to check on me.
That’s beautiful. . . I know right, he would have been the right person😀I think he really really likes you thou with waiting up all night and couldn’t wait to see your face 1st thing in the morning. I love a great doctor that cares about their patients🥰🙏🏾
NorasMom all I can say is wow and thank you Jesus! To have caught the gall stone and find a doctor who truly wants to SERVE his patients and is passionate about it. That's a miracle as well as spotting the "meandering stone".
I am thankful you are OK. Did you say a bad word at having to go directly to the hospital at almost 9 pm? You have a velcro dog too? My velcro is 15 now, & she STILL follows me everywhere.
lol. My bad words were about having to get dressed again. My poor velcro refused to eat while I was gone. My son kept trying to tempt him with treats, but he wasn't having any part of it. I'd told him I'd be back, and he was holding me to it. He's now making up for lost time. I do know that he slept in "our" bed, though, because he managed to push the entire mattress onto the floor without me there to hold it in place.
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