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Went to ultrasound; doctor states I have gallstones?

God, that word just lacks style so much. The question mark is more a product of my lack of ability to put this in context or like, you know, wtf? I am going to be consulting with a surgeon, or so my doctor reports. I feel this entire thing is a product of the fact that this morning I was texting

svmadelyn about how pretty the hospital is. And it is! Glass and steel and a garden and all modern and comforting and now, you know, surgery.

Okay, yes, of course I googled, but you know, people who have had this or done this or whatever, give me an idea of what level of panic I need to be graduating to? I am more at the stage of "what the hell".

*sighs and hits google* I reserve the right to be really weird about this for a while.

ETA: I am breaking my soda only on weekends rule. Wikipedia is so very--informative. I've named my gallbladder Horace. If something has this many issues, it gets a name that is easier to use for hating it purposes.

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I will remember that.

*fond memory* When they did the biopsy, I started coughing a little blood--not tragic amounts of television, but enough for sitting me up and getting clothes out to help--and it was so interesting and the weird part is, I remember thinking, that really hurts, and finding that also deeply awesome and so very cool.

I think they could have actually removed my lungs and danced them in front of me and I would have found it good. Good times.

the Thing about the laproscopic surgery is that in order to have room to work without opening you up, they inflate your abdomen. like, actually straight up blow you up like a balloon to create a workspace. that's why it's 3 holes -- one for the air tube, one for the camera, and then the other is the knife-thing. so that puts some strain on your abdominal muscles, and that's where the bulk of the post-op soreness comes from.

Actually, the camera goes in through the "air hole", the one at the navel (which is also where they take the gallbladder out, inside a small sack, after first removing the stones). There are (at least) two holes for instruments.

my mistake, thank you for the clarification! I was explaining it as I had understood it. :)

Oh, no biggie, I was trying to remember how exactly it went myself, and I've actually seen it done more than once. But I definitely remembered at least two instruments and the camera in the navel.
(The openings have the possibility to let out some of the gas in case it's too much, but hold the gas inside even when the camera is pulled out for cleaning or instruments are exchanged.)

that's cool, it makes sense that it's a bit more complex than I had thought. I am so not medically inclined. :D

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