Today, I’m finally starting to feel like myself about a week and a half after my surgery. Most of the pain and digestive issues are mostly gone. Now I just have to wait for the incisions to heal up completely so I can actually lift stuff again.
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Today has been the first day that I’ve actually felt half way decently after my surgery. I was even able to exercise for a short time. In a few more days, I should be feeling like normal.
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The CO2 bubbles from my surgery are still with me and are really causing lots of pain, more than the actual incisions. I wish they would dissolve soon…
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So it has been over 24 hours after I had my gallbladder removed via laparoscopic surgery, and I’ve had one really weird symptom even though it’s normal. When doing laparoscopic surgery, the surgeon fills your abdomen with carbon dioxide so they can see inside using the inserted camera. Once the surgeon is done, he lets the CO2 out but some still remains. This creates one really weird feeling after the surgery. When I move around, I feel bubbles of gas moving around inside of me. And depending where they lodge, they can cause some pretty bad pain. Fortunately, the bubbles should dissolve into the blood stream within a few days.
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My surgery was finished at 8:30 am this morning after being in the operating room for around an hour. I must say the whole experience was really not fun as expected. The first ten minutes after waking up was the absolute worst. You’re completely disoriented, shaking uncontrollably, and in intense pain as they don’t give pain meds till you’re awake. Anyway, after a couple of hours, most of the nasty symptoms wore off and now I feel pretty good. Also, there were no complications during the surgery with my heart rate which was a relief.
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Well, my gallbladder surgery is tomorrow morning. I have to be at the hospital at the lovely hour of 6 am for pre-op prep and will probably be in surgery around 7 am. Unfortunately, this day has been incredibly stressful on top of the stress of the looming surgery. If I don’t crack under the stress tonight, everything should be a go for tomorrow morning. I just hope everything goes well tomorrow. This has definitely been one of the more stressful things of my life.
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My gallbladder surgery is coming up fast. I’ll be going in for pre-op testing this Monday and the actual procedure will be early Wednesday morning. Even though I’m glad that it’ll finally be out of me on Wednesday, the thought of the surgery is starting to mess with my mind. Last time when I had the surgery set, I had just gone through the worst pain in my life and would have been willing to undergo emergency surgery right then and there. But now, since I’ve had to wait with the surgery, it seems I’m less willing to jump on the operating table. I hope I can keep myself calm enough these next few days…
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With just a few weeks before my surgery, it seems my gallbladder decided to act up again. Luckily it has only been a small attack at this point, but it worries me greatly. I really don’t want a full blown attack again as it truly drained me for weeks after. The only good thing this round is that I have pain killers from the last attack ready to be used if it goes bad.
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I finally sat down and watched the Michael Moore documentary, Sicko, today. And even though it may have been a bit unbalanced in its portrail of Canada’s, England’s, France’s, and Cuba’s health care system, it really does strike home a very hard point about our failing health care system. It’s really sad to see that Cuba can give better health care than we do if you don’t have insurance. It’s also sad to see the stuff the insurance companies try to pull so they don’t have to pay. I’ve seen it myself. For the years I was in college, I couldn’t get health insurance because I had an extremely common condition that was nowhere near life threatening. Instead of just refusing payment on anything related to this condition, they flat out denied me coverage for everything. Luckily I didn’t get sick during that time, and the condition I had disappeared on its own. It could have been bad. And then, fast forwarding a few years later, I finally do get health insurance. However, the first major thing they had to pay for (a head MRI), they cited some sort of pre-existing condition that was nothing with nothing and refused to pay. After fighting with them, they finally paid out. I personally hope they don’t try to wiggle out of paying for my gallbladder surgery, but then again, I have a $4,000 deductible, so I probably will be ending up paying for the whole thing anyway. Between this and everything else that is wrong with this country, it really makes me wonder if I really want to stay here and pay taxes to this government. Canada seems all the more inviting…
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After months of trying to get the doctors to align, I finally have the date set for my gallbladder surgery, which will be November 5th. My cardiologist (remember I have a heart condition which causes really low heart rate at times) will be on standby during the procedure to make sure nothing goes bad. Even though my gallbladder has calmed down these past few weeks, I’m glad I finally will be getting it out. On a side note, I really can’t believe how much the stock market has crashed. It dropped another almost 700 points today.
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