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Gallbladder Surgery
30-Aug-2008
Written by: Jane Squires
Gallbladder surgery is not what people told me.
Don't believe all those people who tell you the laser type gallbaldder surgery is better than the old way. How would they know? They have only had one.
After having gallbladder surgery yesterday, I found them all wrong. Oh it is just a breeze, everyone told me. Have they forgotten the pain? I am totally bruised all over my stomach from four incisions. I am on strong pain meds. What I usually take would not even touch the pain in my shoulder and neck. Never do I ever want to face this again, but of course I won't, as my gallbladder is now gone. But I've had years of problems with pain in the gallbladder and been told it was a cyst, irritable bowel, and anything else but. Two sonograms when I was young showed no stones, but I had flare-ups. Until I had stones, nothing was done.
If only they would have released me from years of bloating, hurting, and crying because I would crawl to the bathroom wanting relief. I would have loved to fart, belch, anything to find relief.
I drank bottles of Mylanta, Pepto-Bismol, and took acid reflux tablets like boo-hoo times to no avail. I hope, as everyone says, that at 58 years of age I may have finally gotten to where I will stop getting sick when I eat - even a piece of toast.
So when people tell you it is nothing - they are way wrong. I feel like I did when I hit a tree ten years ago and my whole stomach was bruised up. I am so sore, bleeding from the belly button, and barely can get up and down.
Sure, the laser surgery has a quicker healing time, but right after surgery it doesn't feel so good. On top of that, they did it as an outpatient surgery and I came home the same day. I wish they would have kept me in the hospital a little longer where someone would do something for me.
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