This is what happened
Last year I started losing weight. Specifically I was losing fat. At some point you need to have some fat to protect your organs but I could not stop.
Not coincidentally I also started having trouble with food. Everything was making me sick. This all started about the same time that I started a new medicine. The med would make my stomach hurt, very painfully, for 3 or 4 days after I took it.
In January I took the med and had terrible excruciating pain. Scary terrible.Did not do anything about it because I thought I have already told the assorted Drs that the med made me sick. Guess it was just the way it was.
Couple of days later I finally ate again and it was a repeat of the pain. After a week or so I finally went to the Dr. He said he suspected Gallbladder issue, pancreatitis and gastritis and referred me to another dr.
Skip forward a week haven’t eaten sold food in a week or so and New Dr says – Gallbladder has to come out and do liver biopsy. Then all hell broke loose! Had an MRI and lots of problems showing up, All the Drs talk to each other and worlds best oncologist starts stepping in and getting shit done! Surgery scheduled for Feb 3 I wait patiently for the week and go in for surgery.
Surgeon goes in to take gallbladder laparoscopically but cuts the wrong duct.
Chaos and drama ensues. I am transferred to a different hospital (my first ambulance ride) another surgeon who is considered a master at this spends 7 hours on her day off doing surgery #2. Done, off to ICU – everything inside was gross and inflamed and just a mess. Went into aFib in ICU. Hey, look at that I have a heart condition now!
So now here I sit a week later with some rocking pain, surgical and liver and wearing a heart monitor.
I am writing this now because if feels like I have finally hit the point where things are all starting to get better and I am looking to be released tomorrow or Friday.
So in my future is liver maintenance and treatment? It’s cirrhosis so I do not know what that means for long term, but until it heals from all the damage from Gallbladder, I am not thinking about that. Heart monitor for a month to see what we need to see about that.
My family has been waiting on me hand and foot and keeping me sane and fed.❤️❤️
A lot of lucky things came together at the right time❤️🩹
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