Wrecker's Emergency Room Boogaloo

Awful experience. Nice meds. Recover well.

Goat

My wife just had her gall bladder taken out a few months ago. It was absolute meep (for her) leading up to it. I feel bad for you.

I feel for you wrecker. Last year my appendix exploded and the MRI showed mushrooms growing everywhere so instead of laproscopy they opened me up from pubic bone to belly meepon to get a good look around. They wanted it to heal up from the inside out so no stitches. Six weeks flat on my back so my guts wouldn't fall out through the gash. I'm with you on the pain meds, more is better. Hope you've got good insurance because I didn't and am now paying off $40,000. Hope you have a quick recovery. Post a pic of your surgery scar and I'll show you the new meep-cheeks they gave me in front.

Well, I certainly hope that Clavis hand delivered the wotak love I sent you.

Feel better, brother.

Ouch! Glad your feeling better man.

that is some icky meep. did it come out like egg yolk?

missus nurglets had a laproscopic procedure yesterday to remove an offending object in her abdomen, took her home today loaded up with pain meds and she's still in a lot of discomfort with 3 entry wounds and whatever work done inside, so I can understand your post op state. get well soon.

also, have you spoken to your brother recently?

dilotin dilaudid? Sounds like some good meep:

with the result that hydromorphone is somewhat faster-acting and about eight times stronger than morphine and about three times stronger than heroin on a milligram basis

Congratulations on taking lead score in the Organ Deletion race. Your gall can be beaten by a partial liver removal, so if anyone wants to grab the brass ring, you know what needs to be outed.

Mofo: that's the stuff.

Super story. Glad you aren't dead. Actually, you might have been about to die and yet you still made sure we got pics, NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL COMMITMENT. Good skills.

(>^^)>HUGZ<(^^<)

Of drugs, Mofo knows.

Sorry bout your plight dude. So what are the long-term implications of having no gall?

here's hoping that your soul patch escapes your body as violently as did your gall bladder :-)

There was a swarmer named wrecker his tummy ache kicked him to the decker He thought he had a brass ball instead it was a big meep gall So his wief held the pot while he held his meep

As far as long term implications of not having a gall bladder, the way the doctor explained it, there really aren't any.

Food goes into your stomach where stomach acids start breaking them down. Proteins and carbs go first since they are the easiest. Fats are last, since they are the hardest to break down and more often than not enter your intestines undigested. At this point your intestines give a call up to the liver for some bile to help break this fats down. Occasionally, there's too much for the liver to handle, so it passes a call along to the gall bladder, who sends down even more bile, since that is all the gall bladder does, produces bile.

All said, the gall bladder is about one level above the appendix when it comes to actual usefulness, but ranks top marks (along with the appendix) in useless organs that will try to kill you, if for no other reason than to remind you that they exist.

Basically, the long term implications for me, are that I will start eating a low fat diet, will lose some weight and actually be in better shape than I was before all this.

diet tip: dietary fat doesn't make you fat

well hurf my durf!

Thanks for the tip Prof. Keen Bean, but if it's all the same, I'll continue to take my post-gall bladder removal dietary advice from a professional. If my doctor tells me to keep my dietary fat intake under 50 grams a day, and, oh by the way, a positive by product of that will include some weight loss, then I am inclined to believe the guy who successfully cut me open, removed organs, and closed me back up without killing me over some snarky internet meep.

Have a nice day.

Hold up there, Jack Spratt. Have you considered the implications to the cattle industry? The National Cattlemen's Beef Association might have a stake in this, and they play hardball.

I have, and not to worry. The ultra low fat intake diet is only temporary until my body adjusts to my liver regulating the bile, then beef is back on the menu.

It will of course be only the finest beef that money can buy, so I am fairly certain that the Beef Industry and I are going to be cool going forward.

It is the Pork Industry that I am worried about, since numbers 1, 2, and 3 on the baninated foods list is sausage, sausage and bacon. This makes me weep openly and gnash my teeth.

if dietary fat makes you fat, then why do we not feed cows fat in order to fatten them up? cuz like we feed them corn. carbohydrates.

seems like in generations of farming, they could have figured out something so simple...

but yeah the dude that cut you open probably has experience with diet, and i'm sure he's physically in great shape (lol j/k he probably has a disgusting body)

hey my dentist took my teeth out but i don't suppose he'll tell me about my gallbladder, y'know??

to meep with the meep bottle

get well soon

Whatever was I thinking questioning the obvious brilliance of Dr. Thaddeus B. Nocal, Internet Doctor Extraordinaire? I mean, how can a real doctor even compete with the infinite intelligence of such a world reknowned smarty-pants like you?

MEEP MEEP! Make way for the Know-It-All-Nocal Express!!! Loaded with boxcars full of meep nobody asked for.

hm yes the dude who can't differentiate between lipids is the one who has a handle on things

guessing it's not the avocado and coconut that made your fat body try to kill itself...

and the fact of the matter is, whether or not you should cut back on fat due to your gall bladder, dietary fat doesn't make you fat, which was my point that you in no way whatsoever refuted. and neither did your surgeon. so perhaps now is the time to get your learn on about health and do some reading or something.

Nocal: Again with the meep that no one asked for. Although I do see what this is all about now. Your obvious meep manlove for me is causing you to stay engaged on this conversation that everyone else was able to glance at and move on from. I appreciate your concern for my health and your dedication to this thread, and while I am a bit flattered at your advances I need to tell you that I don't play for your team. This doesn't mean that we can't still be friends, because far be it from me to judge another.

Anyway, I was going to offer you a hug, but I think that might send the wrong message, so I will just shake your hand.

P.S. The term "fattening up" when referring to cattle, actually has zero to do with fat. The beef industry does not want fat cows, it wants large lean cows, which is why they feed them the foods that they do. Your argument about "why don't we feed cows fat" was just silly and a bit ignorant on your part. Not really your fault since I'm sure you didn't grow up on a beef cattle ranch and have not been exposed to such things.

nocal: ''dietary fat doesn't make you fat...''

Well, now you're just being meeping stupid. Not only does excessive dietary fat help make you fat (if you are not active enough), it also plugs up your meeping arteries and forces your body to produce more bile and acid to digest it... one of which can work your gall bladder to death and the other of which makes your body less efficient at converting oxygen and food to the energy it needs to survive.

Please use this bit of knowledge as a primer and then go read any dietary book other than one written by Atkins.

Also, I would pay 500 roses to watch Wrecker destroy your meep with his entire fist.

On Wednesday, I got the drain tube removed. The doctor snipped the stitches holding it in place, then told me "you might feel a little pressure". He grabbed it and pulled. The drain tube was in a hole on the right side of my abdomen, when he pulled it felt like the left side of my abdomen was being yanked across and through the hole. I screamed like a meep because it hurt like a mothermeeper, but then it was over and I didn't have this extra weight hanging off the side of my body like a little plastic bloody Kuato. The doctor gave me my note stating that I was allowed to return to work on Monday.

I drove the four miles home with the wife following me, since the car had been parked at the hospital since the night I had gone to the ER. That was the longest four miles of my life and took all of my concentration to get home safe.

On Thursday, I was still completely wiped out, but tried to get up and around as much as I could. We went to the store and I was stumbling around, running into stuff. The vertigo was the worst. All of a sudden I would have to pause and wait for the world to stop spinning.

On Friday, I made weif take me out to go walking trying to get my energy level back up. We stayed out for about two hours and as long as I was outside, I tended to do a lot better.

Saturday was a complete change, since I actually felt really good. I didn't have the random pains in my abdomen, and I didn't feel like I needed a nap every few hours. The stitches are itching like meep, but other than that, they are tolerable.

Today, I am all done with the antibiotics and I haven't taken any pain meds since Thursday. I weighed myself today (and I am not saying this to try and quantify anything, this is just an observation and statement of fact) and found that I weigh 14 pounds less than I did when they admitted me to the hospital. I am ready to go back to work tomorrow but I am not looking forward to the logjam of meep that I am sure has piled up in my absence.

I think this brings this tale to an end. On a related note, I meep about four times a day now.

R.I.P. 14lb Gallbladder (and nocal's wrectum)

OK, I'm wading into this dietery fat vs weightloss debate with ninja stealth mode. Without evidence other than real life and anectdotal (the best, ehhh???? Like scientific method-lite.)

Having cut out over 90% of my dairy fat since 2007 (used to down 1 gal 1% every two days and mucho soft cheeses - mozz, etc.) and dropping red meat intake from 2 lbs/week to around .25 lbs/week (average), while keeping everything else pretty much the same (caloric, carbs), I have dropped 20 lbs.

So, for my biochem, the drop in fat intake had a direct corrolation to weight loss.

Surgery like this is a great way to kick start weight loss. When my appendix burst and I had to have that fun surgery to get all the pieces out (I think I posted pics at the time), I lost about 10 pounds over 5 days in the hospital, and then followed that up with the Weight Watchers point system. Ended up losing 30+ pounds in a month and a half! Good luck, happy to hear you're feelin better!

Jeebus, we're getting older, aren't we? Very soon, it will be like "Nocal broke his hip" and "can you recommend a good walker."

Also, I would pay 500 roses to watch Wrecker destroy your meep with his entire fist.

Just got the bill from this little adventure: over $31,000. Insurance covered all but $224. w00ts.