I have been trying to take a vacation from cancer and see how it fares........apparantly this is a foolish notion as I lost a very good friend and another girl who was a cancer acquaintance-both young and it is still too painful to talk about. So instead, I will tell the tale of the 80 year old woman who has possessed me and is giving me all her creepy old lady diseases. I should have known sooner, I had pleurisy at the age of 10 when I got home from 2 weeks at freezing wet camp. Then I had gastroenteritis at 20! I mean, who even knows what these conditions ARE at that age?
Friday night, I am hunkered down, watching On Demand at my house sitting gig. My upper back starts aching as does my upper abdomen. I swam fairly hard that day so I thought maybe I tweaked my back and took a hot bath but it still was hurting and felt worse. I was having this dilemma of "Does this really hurt or am I being a wuss? Is it getting worse or am I imagining it? Should I go to the Dr or just try and go to sleep?" I could not get comfortable and decided to stretch out my back which did NOT help. I soon began thinking I should just go to the ER because I could sleep if I couldn't lie down. I made a couple calls and couldn't get any family or friends on the phone so I drove myself. It started REALLY hurting and I ended up going through red lights like a mad woman. I get to the ER, they get me right in, thankfully. Getting an IV in was a nightmare, as usual, but the pain medication helped for a while. I had lidocaine-GROSS beyond imagination, x rays, a CT scan, and they couldn't find anything. Around noon the next day, they gave me a sonogram and decided I have gallstones. Gallstones?! I am officially 80 years old. I am in a holding pattern until next week to see if the gall bladder goes. Whatever.
The good news is: It is NOT cancer!!!!!! I was so happy to have those scans to let me know that NO, cancer is NOT everywhere in my liver. And after a little investigation, I have learned that there is actually a market for human gallstones somewhere in Asia and I am not above an Ebay auction. The mind reels with the possibilities.
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I'm sorry to hear that you are feeling so crappy. If it makes you feel any better (it won't) I had pleurisy when I was 14 and my cousin had gallstones at 40.
I liked to think that having an old person's disease made me seem more mature, but I'm pretty sure no one else saw it that way.
Take care of yourself.
PS. What do you think they do with gallstones? Some form of Chinese herbal medicine maybe, or in that soup they make out of birds nests
Thanks Cat, I feel fine and will find out the verdict this week. The biggest struggle is not being able to eat cheese or anything remotely resesmbling rich. I love cheese.
As far as what the gallstomes are used for, I think I can safely take luck off the list.
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