Road to recovery

[1600bluekaw]

I am guessing that I am posting this thread in the correct section . I have not been on the forum for the last five days.

I was awaken out of my sleep on Tuesday May 24th around 2:30am with a pain that was so not going to go away alone. I woke up my wife & moved to the couch after taking some tums & kaopectate, you the things we do to self-medicate after we eat great food ??? The pain did not subside :-[ I finally reached a decision to go to the ER, which because of the insurance policies we have to go to one that is in our network. I live 2 blocks from the local hospital, but we had to drive 45 min to the hospital we are mandated to use. Yes, I called my family doc but guess what, at 3am he did not answer the phone. Upon arriving at the ER, still in pain in the stomach area. I checked in & tod the receptionist my condition. It was after this that things started to fall apart. Sweat, chill, hot, sweat, chill all at the same time. Then it happened, vomiting in a pan wow just what I wanted to do at the check in desk. The check nurse then whisked me to a room off the hallway & hooked me up to an EKG machine. She thought it was heart related. Still not in an examination room in the ER, wife & I fell asleep, me still in pain. It is now 5am & nobody has inquired about how I was feeling or that someone would be with us soon. Around 7:30am still in a private room several hallways from the actual ER area I walked out & spoke to some one. My wife is empolyed by this hospital, though not in the care department, she sent a msg to her manager about what was happening. In less than 20 min I was moved to exam room. Over 3 1/2 hrs of waiting in a dark room I was finally going to be examined. After many test, probing, poking, xrays, EKG, MRI & finally an ultra-sound, it was determined that I was going to have surgery. My gall bladder was in bad shape in needed to be removed. One hour in surgery, one hour in recovery. My gall bladder had over 25 stones in it & the walls were very thick. The surgeon did say that some stones were very close to making the stomach area which would have been bad. It would have taken less than one day for gangarene to set in the area.
I was to be realeased on Thursday but there was infection in the wound area & my sugar count was higher than they wanted. I was finally released at 5pm on Friday. Now on the road to recovery. Healing well & preparing for the ride to MV. Just very happy all this happened while at home & not during the National.
The doc said that I will be in great shape to make the trip.
Nice, now I have scars to talk about when drinking with everyone ;)
See ya in 16 days.