After a week and a half of some of the most intense pain of my life, visits to two different Urgent Care facilities, a general practitioner visit, and two trips to the Emergency Room along with CT Scans, X-Rays, blood tests, more blood tests, an Ultrasound, and a HIDA Scan, the doctors said my gall bladder is just barely in the normal zone of functional, though, really close to the non-functional zone. So. Lucky me, the pain in my gall bladder started BEFORE it was all shriveled up and pretty much dead and HAD to be yanked out.
However, that means I have to pretty much change my diet over night to be a no-fat-allowed-vegan for a little while to give my gall bladder the break it needs to calm down the inflammation. Arg. The frustration. Coming from someone who tends to lean towards the carnivorous influence in the daily diet, I seriously need help with ideas for non-fat vegetarian meals. I guess I can have egg whites. No meats for now though. Maybe chicken when it calms down. I just have to make a drastic change so my gall bladder can heal itself and maybe I can avoid having it surgically removed. Let's hope it hasn't given up and is going to die on me anyway.
So, if there happens to be anyone who actually reads my blog, help! I need ideas. I'm the worst when it comes to creative meal ideas (especially meals with no fat and no meat).
At least they know what's wrong though. I would hate to keep prolonging the pain with no idea how to help it, ya know? And at least it's not an urgent "Gallstones moving into your pancreas! Take it out! Take it out! Get her into surgery NOW!" kind of deal. That gas they use to pump up your abdomen for surgery is PAINFUL, especially if they don't try to squeeze any of it out and you sit up in bed real fast and it all moves into your chest cavity... whoa. Feels like you're having a heart attack.
I actually have a brother-in-law who had his gall bladder removed a couple of years ago. I thought it would be good to get advice from him and good ol' Mom about gall bladder stuff, but nooooo... bad idea. Eric (bro in law) is apparently extremely immature for a 19 year old. He acts more like a jealous, attention hording, pubescent 13 year old little girl. See, Eric SWEARS that he follows the diet for someone without a gall bladder and that he NEVER cheats on his diet he's supposed to follow. However, he keeps going into the ER with extreme pain, keeps whining about how much it hurts all the time, and he tortures the family with diarrhea smelling farts on a minutely basis. So doctors can't find anything else wrong with him at why he's still hurting so bad besides the fact that he may be cheating on his diet but of course he isn't--he swears! If he's supposedly following the right diet, why is he ordering Tripple Stacker Bacon burgers, the largest fries they've got, the largest soda they've got, and a couple of cheese burgers on the side just to round out his meal? Hmm. Beats me why he hurts all the time. *rolls eyes* Yeah right. Read up about gall bladders on the internet, Eric. He thinks it just makes enzymes. Hah! Collects enough bile from your liver so you can actually digest large meals. Eating that much (even half that much) in one sitting, fatty or not fatty, will give you problems.
So now Eric is going around telling everyone I have been making up the pain I've had for the last week and a half and saying that there is nothing wrong with my gall bladder and I'm just doing this for the attention and for the pain pills. "Very astute observation, Doctor Eric! I'm sure the official HIDA Scan test results were wrong." Riiiight. I think Eric is just mad that now that someone else has basically the same problem he had, he'll get found out to be the lying, diet cheating little prick that he is. I think he is also mad that now the attention is not on him and his horrible, ongoing health problems (which would go away after a few days of actually following his diet). So he's been milking it and lying about it for two years now. Eric, grow up. Be a man, take care of yourself, and stop being a lying, whining, selfish little baby.
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