Posts Tagged ‘gall’

speaking of popping pills

I am super high on Percoset right now, I took my last two tonight. I think I will need a refill. I hadn’t taken any in a couple weeks, but I finally gave in and finished the bottle. Healing pain has been excruciating the past few days. It takes eight weeks, supposedly, and it has […]

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Protected: oh hi

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pain management

I spent several hours on the sofa this morning, propped up on two pillows, under a blanket, with Sasha on my lap and Kona next to me, watching the Price is Right and Martha Stewart, while kind of passing out. I love you, percoset. But seriously this pain thing is getting old. Yes, I know […]

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recovering

Our nice neighbors invited us for dinner last night, we ate on their back porch. I was in a lot of pain, the percoset hadn’t kicked in quite yet, and my appetite has been tiny, so I only ate a small portion of food. The grilled turkey was sooo good though. The weather was lovely. […]

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operation

The gall bladder is a peach-pit-sized organ nestled beneath the liver. Its purpose is to temporarily store bile passing from the liver into the digestive tract, which is then used to aid digestion of fat. When more fat is consumed, more bile is produced. The gall bladder should function by “pumping” bile at a steady […]

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Protected: science and nature

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Protected: what’s up

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the internet says

My sonogram was normal, but I still think my pain is from my gallbladder. What other tests can I have to check my gallbladder? The sonogram finds almost all gallstones. If these tests are normal, you probably don’t have gallstones. Most gallbladder pain comes from gallstones, but a few people have pain without gallstones. In […]

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nuclear

The shot of dye traveled from the vein in my wrist to my liver in two heart beats. Thump thump. Thump thump. I lay on the metal table and looked up at the screen, where my liver was represented by hundreds of tiny moving dots. It looked bigger than I expected, but they are known […]

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Protected: after my ultrasound

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