I'm back after surgery - sort of

December 30, 2006

Hello everyone -

I'm finally back after my gall bladder surgery. It went as well as

could be expected, I guess, but it hasn't resolved my symptoms one

iota.

The surgeon never bothered to come to see me afterward, but he told my

husband the gall bladder looked just fine to him, so I wonder why the

heck we took out a perfectly healthy organ. I haven't heard anything

about the pathology report yet either.

The bad news is that so far it hasn't done a darn thing to resolve my

symptoms, so I'm starting to get pretty depressed. Maybe it will get

better, but I'm not optimistic. I never did think it was my gall

bladder causing all the problems, because the tests of the gall

bladder all showed it was normal. But they'd done all the other tests

they could think of for other causes and they were all normal too, and

this was all they could think of to do to me. I guess I agreed to it

because I was desperate.

As for the surgery, they totally undertreated my pain at the hospital

in post-op - not taking into account my tolerance for pain meds AT

ALL, as expected. But then they also threw me out of the hospital

entirely after only 45 minutes in recovery, so I was actually happy

they did that so I could go home and take some real pain meds. They

didn't even wait to see if I could pee like they had said they would

in the pre-op " teaching " meeting. What was up with that?

Then nobody from the surgeon's office or the hospital ever called to

check up on me afterward. Even my vet calls to check on my dog the

next day after she's had a procedure with anaethesia!!! I really

wonder about these people.

Luckily I didn't have any problems with sickness from the anaesthesia

or fevers or anything. The pain was manageable at home, thanks to my

pain doc writing a reasonable script for me, and thankfully I only

needed it for a few days. The gas they put into me for the laproscopy

was much worse than the incisions - it settled in my shoulder and was

excruciating.

Anyway, I'm going to take a few more days easy at home before going

back to work. Monday's a holiday anyway. I probably won't be writing

a whole lot here for a while yet either. I'm battling trying not to

cycle down into depression again. Maybe it will just get better.

That's what I'm hanging on to.

Cheryl in AZ

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