Hello, my babies. I hope to have The Little Jazz Baby updated soon with my posts about Bauhaus and other art posts that I have been planning. Unfortunately an emergency surgery put a wee wrench in my plans.
I was admitted to the hospital early Friday morning in a horrific amount of pain. I thought that it was the kidney infection I was diagnosed with this past month. It wasn’t. It was my gall bladder, which had been giving me problems for going on four years now. It became infected and they had no choice but to remove it first thing Saturday morning.
I never had a kidney infection.
*groan*
Funny how one teeny little organ can do a lot of damage. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The surgery went well and I was in the hospital for an additional 24 hours, eating nothing but rubbish powdered broth and jello.
Even though I am swollen and feel like crap at the moment, I feel loads better than I have for years. I was all too excited to get into surgery and have my gall bladder removed. This surgery was long overdue, let me tell ya.
I haven’t got insurance, so doctors here dragged their feet until they absolutely had no choice but to remove my gall bladder. It was infected. I could have very well died if I (or the doctors) had let it go any longer.
Thanks to modern medicine, I will be back in shape in no time and posting regularly soon. It only hurts a little when I move suddenly, and the doctors say that I will be able to go back to work by the end of the week! I am excited about that. In the old days, this surgery would have you out of commission for at least six weeks!
While I am healing, I have a guest post coming from “Monique Classique”, a blogger and collector who specializes in Conrad Veidt. I am just waiting on some final details for her post.
If you would like to help me out at this time, please feel free to submit your post to this blog by filling out the guest post form. Bear in mind that I will only accept submissions that are within the scope of The Little Jazz Baby.
I will be back to posting regularly soon, my darlings! I promise you that.
I hope that you will be back soon…my best wishes!! Hooray for modern medicine!
I’m on the mend, and I plan on being back as soon as I can. I will probably be posting regularly again starting next week (Sunday). Until then, there is this completely unrelated to the blog post and one from Monique Classique from the Conrad Veidt blogs coming up later this week.
Angie Schaffer recently posted…A Little Unexpected Emergency Surgery
Wow!! Feel better. I went through this exact same thing 2 years ago. Once you mend you will be happy that thing is GONE!
Nellie recently posted…Weekly Wednesday Workout: Lying Leg Raises
Thanks, Nellie. I am SO happy it is gone. I can eat real food again!
The one thing that really shocked me is that I have not been in any pain at all since surgery. I thought I would, at the very least, be a little sore. I’d better shut my mouth or the pain might come back to haunt me lol.
Angie, I’m glad that it was early diagnosed before it gets worst. I hope you’ll be back soon at your work and taking your medications properly for fast recovery. You’re right, the technology nowadays was so advanced that they help develop effective modern medicines to ease our pain and improve our health.
Emily recently posted…Four employees of Peanut Corp. indicted for the 2009 salmonella outbreak
Thanks, Emily. I have been recuperating just fine at home and have been working, working, working. I am going to be back on here blogging regularly on April 1!