[ARCHIVED THREAD] - 1Gunrunner Update (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 3/3/2006 3:15:03 PM EDT
After breakfast, 1GR and Odt headed out to a nudist colony in Sultan where they purchased the planer. Shortly after calling me, he had a gall bladder attack. When I returned his call they were headed back to LCR but only made it as far as a hotel in Bellevue, where they stopped for a couple hours.  I just got a call from Odt who says they are back in LCR and 1GR is going to take his medicine, FINALLY. |
You need to start kicking your doc in the balls really hard for each attack you have. They did the same crap with my wife even after it was clear she had gallstones that were never going to go away.  "Hold still Doc, I had three attacks this week and you got two more coming!"
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Gonna go to the doctor? Go enough and maybe they'll yard that thing out. |
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IMO, you need to slap your doctor. I had one gall bladder attack, last April. My doc said,"It's only gonna get worse, lets get it out." They took it out, laproscopicly, 2 days later. Sent me home 2 days after that. I was roto-tilling the garden and pulling weeds within 3 weeks but it took a couple of months before I had no pain at all. Good luck 1GR. Get it taken care of before it gets worse, and slap your doctor. |
What tests did you have to endure before they took it? |
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Dr. Dean Adell was talking about this stuff last night. Said that nowadays they do "keyhole" surgery. Minimally invasive and much less trauma to your body and immune system. Unlike how they used to do it which would leave an "Alien" sized hole in your abdomen. Get that shit fixed man. |
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Gunrunner, I'm going into surgery tomorrow. The testing involved required that I was hard-wired to an electro-shock machine and powerful electrical jolts were fired into my arms, causing the muscles to sparm. It was no fun. Now get your big pussy-ass into surgery and get it fixed. I'm going be be sitting around for a month with nothing to do all day, except play with your voodoo doll. |
I hated that test!!!!!!!!!! I kept telling the lady that she enjoyed her job a little too much! 
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Ummm she probably won't be able to tell you, ya see the "one attack" was simply the one attack she told the emergency room doctor about, her family doctor simply assumed she would pass a stone and be done but apperantly her gall bladder was pretty buggered up. I was in California and got a call in the middle of the night, she was nearly inchoherent with the pain. We got some freinds to take her to the hospital and watch our kids till I could get home and she was in surgery within 36 hours, it nearly killed her If your gall bladder is acting up get it fixed. |
 Another good story to look forward to over a camp fire. |
Can we film the operation? Is the head dead yet? You know, the boys in the newsroom got a Running bet Get the widow on the set! Come on, live or die? The suspense is killing me. When they ultrasound the gall bladder, I bet the liver lights up like a neon sign. TRG |
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Well, for fuck's sake. He ain't dead...yet. He just called me to tell me that he FORGOT to request a prostate exam from the hot nurse. He does have my information for the Will now, and is at 'The Wal-marts' looking for lube or something to that effect. He did say that the ulstrasound machine lit up like a pinball machine, and the Doc screamed "High Score!!!" when he got to the liver. TRG |
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1- if you get laparoscopic surgery, they fill your insides with CO2 to spread things out so the Dr. can see inside. It puts pressure on your diaphragm which triggers a nerve that causes pain in your right shoulder. So if you get excruciating shoulder pain during post-op, that is why. I am not sure what you do about it, just that you can get it. 2 - Have some GAS-X (chewable simethicone) handy. Since your whole digestive tract gets sedated when you do, it may be slow firing up again. If you feel like you are going into labor to where you start timing your contractions, then try the GAS-X. You will thank me for this later. |
my co-workers are looking at me wondering why I had laughed so hard! |
Go ahead, explain it all to them. They would appreciate the diversion. TRG |
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for the brave: 3rd thumbnail from the bottom has two gall bladder videos Does anyone remember the prison hospital scene in Stir Crazy with Richard Pryor and the crazy Korean doctor? 
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Ok, who's going to be the first to postthe pic of Steve with a C02 bloated belly and a map of Hawaii? TRG PS> you know he loves... LOVES that picture! |
They only did an ultrasound on me... I remember that much. They gave me a shot for pain and a shot for nausea. After that, I don't remember much except the doctor (and the room) swaying while he talked jibberish to our friends who, oddly, weren't swaying. Good luck, and if they don't give you morphine, ask for it. |
Who do you think you are kidding?  TRG |