Stupid Gallbladder!

You may have heard about my recent visit to the hospital. On Monday the 16th of March I had a huge gallbladder attack and ended up in the emergency room in Fallon. They did an ultrasound and my gallbladder was full of stones. After they got me feeling pretty good on pain meds they sent me home and told me to meet with the surgeon ASAP because it needed to come out. Then the very next day I had another attack. Becky had to come get me and take me back to the emergency room. The radiologist looked at my labs and ultrasound and informed me that 3 stones got out of my gallbladder and into my common bile duct. This is very bad because they were blocking the opening to my pancreas. They were afraid that I would develop pancreatitis so they had to ship me to St. Marys in Reno by ambulance. They don't have the technology in Fallon to do the surgery to remove the stones from the duct so that is why I had to go to Reno. In Reno they did and MRCP which is kind of like an MRI on me to see exactly what was in the duct. Then they performed an ERCP on me. This is a surgery where they stick a tube down my throat with a camera on the end and go into my stomach. Then they cut into my Bile duct and remove the stones. This procedure can also cause pancreatitis so they had to make sure everything went O.K. with this surgery before they went in for the second surgery to remove my gallbladder. Everything went well though so then on the same day I finally went in for the last surgery and had my gallbladder removed. In total I ended up being in the hospital for 6 days. The hardest part was being away from Seth though. He got to come stay with me for one day at the hospital. The other days Becky and my Mom watched him. I am so lucky to have such a wonderful family. I want to say thank you to all of you who prayed for me, fasted, and also for all of the concerned phone calls. I am doing great now and am so excited to be home to take care of my little family.