After The Op

[poliphilo]

That was a long day. Ailz had the operation in the morning and was transferred to the High Dependency Unit in the early afternoon. The infection was so bad that they couldn't do keyhole sugery, but had to make a big incision so they could look around properly. I assume they took out the gall bladder entire, but no-one has actually explained it to me yet. The main thing is that she's out of pain (out of serious pain, I mean) and is at last able to get some proper sleep (she was so short of sleep before the operation she was hallucinating (a giant rabbit, a Russian woman playing the violin.)

Thank you all so much for your thoughts and prayers.

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[seaslug-of-doom.livejournal.com]

I had been holding off on commenting until I saw the word 'surgery' after which I relaxed a bit, oddly enough. Now it's just a matter of knocking out the infection.

I had to have surgery a couple years ago for an adhesion. They started out with laproscopic, or keyhole, surgery, as you so charmingly put it. Then they decided to go for the appendix as well. My appendix heard them coming and went on the lam. He holed up in one of those dirty, pay-by-the-week flats behind the large intestine. Using her amazing detective skills and a divining rod, my surgeon found him and, after a short gun battle, my appendix was knicked.

Unfortunately, they had to unzip me to perform the man-hunt on my appendix and now my navel looks like the top of a dotted i. An unexpected benefit, however, is that my belly-button no longer collects lint.

Continued good thoughts for you and yours.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Cheers.

It was a bad do. The surgeon commented that this was "the gall bladder of the year"! I'm told the scars are something to behold.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Ailz may well find her general health improving over the next weeks--I wonder if she had just gotten slowly used to not feeling as well as she had, and now that the infection is gone, she can look forward to feeling much better!

Such good news that it's over.

Love, Jackie

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's hard to know.

Immediately prior to the flare-up she'd been feeling fitter than she had done in the past ten years.

Weird.