4/30: gone!

Let me explain the picture for today...

Over the last - hmm...couple of years I have had some intense stomach pains.  I always figured I ate too much, ate something I shouldn't have or maybe I was allergic to something.  I never thought much of it - and I'm pretty sure you have heard me complain about a stomach ache :)

A couple of months ago, while I was complaining to James about another one of my stomach pains, he said, "Tiff, you've complained about stomach pains almost every day since we've been married."

Really?  Geez...maybe that's not a good sign?

So after some encouragement (pushing) from my husband, I finally went to see an internal medicine doctor.  He scheduled an ultrasound and you'll never guess what he found.

Gallstones

And lots of them!  And they were huge.  They couldn't pass.  And did you know that your gall bladder flares up right after you eat?  Who knew?!

So we met with a surgeon and I had my gall bladder out last week.  Let's be honest - I was scared.  They fill your stomach with air and snip your gall bladder and pull it out through a small incision.  Ah!

The picture above is a picture of the pictures the surgeon took of my insides - awesome huh?  Picture of my inflamed gall bladder, picture of them snipping it out, and a picture of me without a gall bladder.

And guess what?!  Those awful stomach pains...GONE!

The End :)