wake up early, go to the
radiologist for another
sonogram of the
gallbladder. this time they find a
gallstone. ah ha. at least now i know there is a reason for the pain i feel. i headed back to my family practitioner and he, upon hearing about the
gallstone, sends me for more tests at shady grove
hospital. there they
inject me with
radioactive stuff and watch as it works it's way through my liver to my
gallbladder and into the small bowel. execpt that it doesn't. it doesn't move beyond my
gallbladder at all. a
surgeon walks in and tells me that my doctor has asked him to check up on me. i'm in pain, i tell him. but it's not too bad. he takes a look at the
radioactive stuff pooled in my
gut and tells me the
gallbladder has got to come out. ugh. ugh ugh ugh. when? it's not am
emergency, he tells me. it can be done next week, and i don't have to miss my
martial arts exam this saturday if i feel well enough to do it. the surgeon wants to see if he can get the
gallbladder to function by injecting me with some
hormone... so i get an IV inserted and a few minutes after the
juice starts flowing into me the
surgeon asks me how i feel.
OH MY GOD!
the biggest wave of
nausea i've ever felt hits me, and i let him know that. i've never had nausea so bad that it made me
cry. it was
bad. fortunately i haven't injested anything but fruit smoothies in a long time... if i had eaten anything i'm sure the
vomit would have been
explosive and
violent. then i started hurting a lot worse than i had been to that point. but on the plus side, it worked pretty quickly to move the
radioactive stuff out of my
gallbladder. getting everything out of there was apparently a good sign... i don't know if that
positive result will preclude the need for
surgery or not, but i sure
hope so. i meet again with the
surgeon tomorrow morning to find out for sure.
finally reached
level 6! i am a
Crafter! there is a picture on my
homenode! tra la la!