It was a week ago today in the evening that I managed to get myself to the hospital emergency room in extreme pain and vomiting violently. I spent another five hours of lying on the bathroom floor of the ER waiting room and I am sure I totally grossed out the other ER patients who were waiting to get help by forcing them to listen to my awful wretching. Finally, I got in and, after they tried and failed multiple times to get an IV into me they gave me a shot of morphine and something to ease the vomiting. I was admitted to the hospital at around 2 in the morning and at 9 am I was in the operating room having my gallbladder removed. As it turns out, I was lucky, because my gallbladder was infected and ready to burst. If it had burst, I’d probably still be in the hospital now with weeks of care ahead of me. My, what a painful ordeal. Happily, now the offending organ is gone, I feel only a minor amount of pain and fatique from the procedure, and I am taking it easy at home for another week or so.
I must say that emergency room staff must be the most blasé people on the face of the earth. What an awful place to have to be when you need the most help.
Ah then, you know whereof I speak. I am also very glad to be on the other side of that experience. Thank you very much for the hug and kiss, I’ll accept them both most happily.
Asha was in daycare all last week while I was in the hospital and she only came home for the weekend when my friend Matt was around to take her for walks. Since Matt is not available this week and I can’t take her out yet, it was back to daycare for her today. I have to say that, regardless of my state of health, Asha still manages to hog the bed. 🙂
What, it wasn’t enough to hear of my gallbladder agony? You just HAD to wait until the point of no return, didn’t you?
In all seriousness, in a few weeks you’ll feel right as rain, and the best part, you’ll be abel to eat cheese again.
Hope you feel better soon.
It *should* have been enough to hear of your gallbladder agony; however, it has always been my pattern to have to learn things the hard way. Hopefully, I have learned my lesson. 😉
Oh, and thanks for the good wishes!
So have you always had upper right side of your back pain? Typical symptom missed for gallbladder disease. I had my gallbladder plucked when I was 25. They do most of the arthroscopic these days. How was yours done? I was back to riding my horse in 5 days from surgery 2 weeks before they took out the 14 staples.
ER staff are just burned out. They have seen ignorance and evil every shift for years. If you ever see them upset then shit bigger than you can believe has hit the fan.
It is amazing the way we bounce back when we are young. I am only 50 but there are days when it feels like 100. 🙂
My procedure was arthroscopic, so I don’t even have stitches, just four small cuts in my abdomen. I am not sure how a procedure could be any less invasive and still be considered real surgery. My surgeon told me I was quite lucky because my gallbladder was infected and on the verge of bursting, and that dealing with that would have involved opening the abdominal cavity and, trying to get all the infected matter out, a longer hospital stay, a longer recovery, etc. I do feel very fortunate not to have had that experience.
It may very well be that the ER staff was burnt out; but, the result was still a display of complete indifference towards the people that were there for help. If I become ill enough to feel that it is necessary to get myself to an ER, indifference is not the response I hope to find when I get there. The doctor I saw in the ER was okay, but everyone else up to that point was not. My sister and her boyfriend, who had each separately tried to find me, said the same thing about the ER staff. We were all a little taken aback by the attitude demonstrated by the “front line” folk. I don’t know what the solution is for ER burn out; but, I think that if one could be found, I would feel something other than complete dread at the prospect of finding myself in an ER again one day.
Wow!!! I am so glad you are alright. What an ordeal! Thank goodness you made it through the pain and agony. Whew! Get some rest!
Thanks! I’m much better now. 🙂
Ohmygosh! What drama! That must have been awful, so glad you are feeling better.
Lousy gallbladder >:(
Yes, a nasty evil thing it was. 😉
I missed this!
When i was in Ohio for the “boot camp” i was not reading very carefully and i was just learning how to read the web via my palm treo. I’m sorry i missed this and hope you have completely forgotten about this by now.
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Oh, not to worry. I am doing fine now. Thanks for asking!