Early Monday morning (5 am), my husband woke with an intense pain in his left side. We waited until afternoon thinking that it was some sort of stomach bug, but when it didn’t get better and started to get worse, I made him call the doctor and off to the emergency room we ran. We spent from 3 pm to 11 with him getting tests to figure out what was going on and he is one sick man. It seems he has a severely inflamed gall bladder and they are doing more tests (they admitted him at 11 pm and I was falling apart from stress and needed to collect the girls from my mother’s house). If the tests come back positive, he’ll have the gall bladder removed. If not, they keep him until his white count goes down (at least I hope they keep him).
It is funny how different people deal with pain differently. I’ve grown pretty insensitive due to my chronic pains and what I’ve gone through that past two years. My husband has always been sort of a big baby and I think that is what threw me or I would have had him call the doctor sooner. They of course put him on the oncology floor (murphy’s law) and he is pretty sanguine and I always freak when he gets sick because it can bring on a seizure. You can tell, I’m a mess.
So, send hugs for my hubby (he is pretty comfortable at the moment, but still sick) and speak to whomever that this mystery gets solved.
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Gall bladders are INCREDIBLY painful. Good news is that laproscopic surgery is loads better than back when I had my GB out.
((((hubby)))
Hope everything turns out right!
And I'll keep all of you in my prayers.
I did a similar thing when my friend took a fall snowboarding. I was like "you're fine, lets just get down to the bottom of the mountain and go find the ski patrol" and she was totally ready to do it.
But her boyfriend and mine were like "no, lets call ski patrol now" and they encouraged her to ride down on a sled.
Turns out she had broken her arm in two directions, and if she had followed my advice could have really hurt herself badly if she had fallen again. D'oh! All of our friends were like "remind me never to go snowboarding with you!" LOL
I hope your hubby gets better soon! *sends good gallbladder vibes*
I hope things go smoothly hon. *hug*
Kaz, it is amazing surgery and he is due home tomorrow. Since he is a simple eater (meat and potatoes but more pasta than anything) he should do fine. Thanks for the heads up.
I think it was really difficult to watch him go through all this knowing about hospitals and illness so closely myself. He is a reall trooper and after 24 years we are so part of each other that I don't know what I would have done (coped, yes) if things weren't solved. So thank you all and hugs back at ya.
You are great friends.
Here's a hug from me...
{{{{{{{{{{hug, hug, hug}}}}}}}}}}}}
Take care
I know about guys being big babies when it comes to pain. I'm one of these babies as well, hehe, and it's the same with me when I'm sick, then I want to whole world to care. My girl-friend takes these things a lot more stoically... I'm trying to change, but it's not easy being a guy ;-)
I hope he is already better !!