Just a little FYI…

Sep 26, 2009

I will not be blog­ging for sev­eral weeks and thought I would give you the heads up as to why.

To make a long story short… for the past few years I thought I was lac­tose intol­er­ant. Any­time I drank milk my stom­ach would hurt so I just took myself off all dairy and didn’t have any­more issues. Well in April the Dr. and I thought I had acid reflux… took Nex­ium and all was better.

  • Sun­day I had some ter­ri­ble stom­ach pains that lasted all night but went away.
  • Tues­day evening BAM I was hit with some stom­ach and back pain that would not let up so I went to the ER and found out I had gall­stones and a very unhappy gallbladder.
  • Wednes­day I was in a hos­pi­tal room being pumped full of antibi­otics and pain medication.
  • Thurs­day had surgery to remove my gall­blad­der and let me just say it is instant relief as soon as that thing is gone. The worst day after surgery is still a bet­ter day than hav­ing a gall­blad­der attack.

So if any of you have these very same symp­toms… get that gall­blad­der checked out. This just might be your issue. Life with­out a gall­blad­der is GRAND!

Hugs to you all.


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  • Helen Mar­shall

    Get bet­ter soon. Think­ing of you.

  • Cris Cun­ning­ham

    Feel Bet­ter Lisa — so glad your symp­toms have sub­sided and you’reon your way to feel­ing good as new! Send­ing lots of hugs and kisses your way. xoxo

  • http://soojjay.blogspot.com/ Sue

    Feel bet­ter soon. Had mine removed two years ago and not looked back :D

  • http://www.rubbaluvva.blogspot.com/ Chris Slater

    Sorry to hear you’ve had to have an oper­a­tion. Wish­ing you a speedy recovery.

    Chris

  • http://www.bluebirdpaperie.blogspot.com JeanFB

    Wow, Lisa, thank good­ness they finally fig­ured it all out!! Wish­ing you good health and a quick recovery!

  • Cindy Mar­quis

    So glad you are feel­ing bet­ter. I hope you have a quick recovery.

    Cindy

  • http://threeguysandagirlmlnv.blogspot.com/ Pat­ti­Hutch

    Oh Lisa! I’m so glad you you found out what it was. I had a sim­i­lar episode a few years back. It got so bad one of the gall­stones got out and wedged it’s way into my esoph­a­gus. I had two emer­gency surg­eries in one day. For some rea­son, it’s so dif­fi­cult to diag­nose. Doc­tors seem to want to pump you with meds before doing any testing.

    The only other advice I can give is that you will still have to watch what you eat. With­out a gall­blad­der there is no “ref­eree” telling your body to stop.

    Take care!

  • http://www.feelinscrappytoday.blogspot.com Brook

    Oh my good­ness. I am so sorry that you had to go through all of that. I hope that you are feel­ing much bet­ter now!

  • http://paperpastorale.blogspot.com Carla May­field

    I’ll miss your bril­liant and cre­ative posts, but you get bet­ter! We’ll be here when you get back!! HUGS!

  • Linda Cain

    Lisa,
    I some­times won­der if that isn’t my prob­lem as I’ve had sev­eral episodes like yours and the dairy makes it act up some­times and not oth­ers. Oh, that our bod­ies were made of glass that we could see just what ails us.

    They will have to lay off at least one per­son in the Glit­ter Fac­tory while you’re down! Ha! We’ll just be glad when you’re back up and run­ning at 100% again.

    Get well,
    Your Friend in ART,

    Linda

  • Sophia

    Wish­ing you a speedy recovery!

  • celeste

    feel bet­ter sweetie! huge hugs!

  • Amy Tara Koeppel

    Wish­ing you a very speedy recov­ery Lisa!

  • Eve­lyn

    Send­ing get well wishes your way as well as hopes for a very speedy recov­ery. We will be think­ing of you as you recover. Take your time and take care. :)

    Eve­lyn

  • http://www.pinkpersimmon.com Darcy

    Hey Lisa, take care of your­self and rest easy! We’ll miss your posts, but want you feel­ing tip-top when you return. Hugs and prayers com­ing your way.

  • http://www.lavenderlookingglass.blogspot.com Kris­ten

    Lisa, take care and a speedy recov­ery. I felt like my life was back after some­thing sim­i­lar hap­pened to me. I was pretty much down to oat­meal before they finally fig­ured it out. The past 5 years have been heaven in the eat­ing dept :)

  • melissa

    Lisa,

    Times like these, we real­ize that the human vocab­u­lary is so lim­ited; for­tu­nately, our capac­ity for new pos­si­bil­i­ties is much less so. I’m pray­ing that you will have happy and peace­ful days ahead.

  • http://lilybeanpaperie.typepad.com Melissa

    Think­ing of you Lisa. So sorry to hear you haven’t been feel­ing well. Hope you recover very quickly.
    melis

  • Beth W

    Old­est son had to have emer­gency gall­blad­der surgery some years ago. The dif­fer­ence was mind blow­ing. Rest up and recover-hope this is the end of your med­ical woes for a long long time.

  • http://www.scrappedout.wordpress.com Emily

    So sorry to hear about your surgery, but I’m glad they fig­ured out what was mak­ing you sick! I’ll miss you, get well soon!

  • Cari

    I’m so glad you’re feel­ing bet­ter! Take care of yourself!

  • diane

    Wish­ing you all the best!! I’ve been there too so I know how you felt and how you now feel!
    Get well soon!

  • http://kismetart.typepad.com/ Kim A

    I am glad you are on the mend, feel bet­ter soon!

  • http://pattichurch.wordpress.com patti

    Holy cow, I wish you would have called. Sad that I had to read it on your blog. But hope you get to feel­ing bet­ter soon.

    love ya
    patti

  • Patti smith

    Hi Lisa…so sorry to hear about your surgery but so glad you can already tell a dif­fer­ence and get relief.…Take care of yourself…I’ll miss you…
    (((HUGS)))) patti smith

  • http://scrappergirl.typepad.com Shel­ley Haganman

    Sooooo glad you are feel­ing better!!

  • mum­makat

    I had my gall­blad­der taken out three years ago and I can’t tell you what a relief it was. The pain that thing caused was unbear­able! I was mis­di­ag­nosed as hav­ing ulcers. Crazy time! Get well soon!

  • http://www.cropgirl.wordpress.com stephe­nie

    Feel bet­ter! I am sorry to hear this!!! I will be think­ing of you!

    S

  • Donnna C

    OH MY GOSH!!! So scary! Thank good­ness you are ok!!! BIG HUGS!!!