I'm sick.
Not swine flu sick... not food poisoning... not allergies... no... pain and in need of surgery sick.

Well.. its not 100% confirmed... but every doc says "It's probably your gall bladder"

My gall bladder... which I've wondered if I could be having a problem with it after having gained 100 pounds when pregnant with Em... which is hereditary... which I have asked about considering the HORRIFIC heartburn that wakes me up to vomit... But no... When I was puking my guts out from the bile building in my throat the doctors said "Its common for pregnant women... take antacid... it'll go away when your hormones regulate"...

Then about 3 weeks ago... I thought I had caught a bug... I had chills and fever and threw up for almost a whole day... I thought my back was killing me because of wretching so much. I felt better by Sunday night... so I went to work on monday, believing it was a passing stomach bug and nothing more.

But then, Wed. night I woke up again with that horrible heartburn... so, I got up and sat in the living room to keep from vomiting... then... I started to get nauseaus... and I'm never nauseaus when I have heart burn. So, all I'm thinking is "oh great I'm sick" and I go back to bed. I sleep kind of rough... and when I wake up... my right side and back hurt, I'm nauseaus and dizzy, my head hurts, its hard to breath... not good. I look up my symptoms and see nothing but things on gall bladder and pancreas... not good. So, I call my mom... "Hey mom... what would I look for if I have a problem with my gall bladder?" I still wasn't convinced. I didn't want to panic and run to the doc only to find out I just have gas. So, against my moms advice, I went to work thinking "It'll ware of... I'll feel better when I walk around a bit"... but I didn't... so called Casey and had him pick me up from work.

I went to the doctor, told him all my symptoms... and on a fluke mentioned my horrid weekend of chills fever and throwing up with the back ache... he looks concerned... "so... no other cold or flu symptoms?" "No." "So, only the fever and chills with vomiting..." "Yeah, and all the vomiting gave me a bad back ache." "That wouldn't give you a back ache... that sounds like a gall bladder attack"

So, then came the tests. Blood tests... sonograms... pee in a cup... shove around on the belly... fasting...... oh yay.

Today was the sonogram, wasn't allowed to eat or drink for 6 hours... which meant I woke up after not eating all night and couldn't eat until after my appointment at 2:40. I knew they were looking at everything in my abdomen... but I tried to gage the techs reaction and actions when she was scanning and photographing my guts... There were things she obviously didn't see anything... so she took obligitory shots and moved on... like my kidneys and spleen (which looked kinda like a jelly fish... weird) She took a lot of my gall bladder understandably... but what concerned me was the face she made at the screen and her insistance on getting a very particular angle on something she saw. So I asked her when she was done if she could see anything weird. "Well, it probably is your gall bladder" she says "But I didn't see anything too scarey" ... ok..

So, knowing that several people in my family have had to have theirs removed... I wont be surprised if the Dr. calls me up and says "you need surgery"... but I do kinda wish someone had checked or thought of this before when I mentioned certain things. Several things should have been huge red flags really...

Then theres the crazy diet I'll have to be on after the surgery... only about 2-3 tsps of fat allowed a day... no skin on my chicken... no nuts or peanut butter (*loud sobbing*) only low fat cheese (um... gross)  no salad dressing... just basicly no fat ever unless I want to live in the bathroom.

Well... on the bright side... I'll lose some weight...