Bad time this weekend

[brawlins]

I was supposed to be moving my mother from Charleston, SC to Atlanta from Friday through Monday. She called Thursday night and said she wasn't moving.

So (having Friday off) I was at home on Friday morning when one of my boys (teenager) asked me to drive him to the Emergency Room because his stomach hurt like heck. He was obviously in serious pain, so I took him to the Hospital, but I thought it was just food poisoning.

When we got to the Hospital, they ran test after test, and they finally determined that he had a bad gall bladder. Saturday, they removed his gall bladder. Sunday, we took him home (in time for the Super Bowl - Thanks to the Doctor).

The surgery was Laproscopic. The punched a few small holes in his midsection and sucked out the gall bladder with a vacuum cleaner.

Can you believe it: He was eating wings for the Super Bowl and hanging out with his friends on Sunday Night. The only surgery I've had was a zillion stiches and out of commission for two weeks.

I'm grateful that all is okay, but it was not a fun weekend.

- Bill

[vash]

hey, my brother's gall bladder is suspect too. the doc is the the "wait and see" mode. what are the side affects? i seem to remember that without the gall bladder, your diet needs to be perfect. is this true? glad your son is ok. he sounds like a tough kid. i would have been crying and popping vicoden. "lookee at the colors!"

[speeder]

Sorry to hear that, but glad that he is OK. Best wishes for your family, (and everyone else's)!

[brawlins]

Doc told us there are no side affects from losing your Gall Bladder. He said the Gall Bladder aids in digestion, but the body adjusts (compensates) in a short period of time. He said you don't have to alter your diet. My brother-in-law (who is also minus his Gall Bladder) dittos that last comment.

Speeder, Unfixed - Thanks for the kind thoughts!

By the way, the most intense pain from a bad gall bladder is right under the lowest right rib. The doc told me that once you start having gall bladder problems, you will always have them, so if he knows it's a gall bladder problem, he takes it out.

[makaio]

THat's crazy! Glad your kid is OK.

My brother had a similar problem years ago, but it was his apendix.

[cstreit]

Glad your son's okay. Can't imagine the tense moments...

[SpeedracerIndy]

Glad to hear he is ok. I had my appedix taken out by that method and I wasn't up and going for several days after. It sounds like he was lucky and you got to it early on. My appendix had burst, so I think that is why I had so much trouble. I also replaced my girlfriends front brakes and rotors on her car the day I went into the hospital. All that jumping and pounding couldn't have helped much. Some of the worst pain I have ever felt. Made my belly blow up like a blimp. The surgury was amazing though. In and out of the OR in about 2 hours, and only three small cuts less than 1/2 inch.

[RickM]

Glad your son is doing well. An old boss had his Gall bladder removed the old fashioned way and he was out of work for a month and a half.

[TSNAPCRACKLEPOP]

hahahahaha, if you milk your gall bladder when it first starts to hurt, it will function properly and last a lifetime. God, like porsche, kenw what he was ding when he put that part in. Mostly it saponifies. Surgeons make porsche payments taking them out.

[brawlins]

If you "milk" it ????? Huh ??

[TSNAPCRACKLEPOP]

osteopaths have been doing it for years. gall bladder clogs, you milk it with a squeezing technique, and the clog moves on. there are really some effective alternative medicine methods. works on appendix also.

[Moses]

Originally posted by TSNAPCRACKLEPOP
osteopaths have been doing it for years. gall bladder clogs, you milk it with a squeezing technique, and the clog moves on. there are really some effective alternative medicine methods. works on appendix also.

Sorry, just can't let this pass. Your "clogged" gall bladder is actually not obstructed. It is simply cholestasis, treated easily with dietary changes and simple meds. If you want to pay someone to massage it, thats your business. (they may need to make their Volvo payment.)

Cholelithiasis with obstruction however leads to infection. Acute cholecystitis can kill you. Letting someone massage your obstructed gall bladder could kill you more quickly if it is ruptured.

An appendix that is not infected causes no pain. To "massage" an infected appendix is pure foolishness.

P.S. I work with a number of well trained osteopathic physicians. Unfortunately thier reputations suffer due to old school osteopaths who still maintain they can cure Tuberculosis with spinal manipulation.

[TSNAPCRACKLEPOP]

i understand. one does need to recognize symptoms and act early. it does work.