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Today i'm facing my biggest fear!
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That's good!
Today i'm feeling a lot better, i'm more mobile, functioning all correctly p) and recovery is going well, i'm being discharged from hospital this morning. Now my next challenge is to keep myself off the booze at home, i've not had a drink in over a week now and i've enjoyed not drinking too and haven't even missed it one bit, so I want to keep it up. I need to change some home habits so I don't slip back into them (different thread maybe).
p) and recovery is going well, i'm being discharged from hospital this morning. Now my next challenge is to keep myself off the booze at home, i've not had a drink in over a week now and i've enjoyed not drinking too and haven't even missed it one bit, so I want to keep it up. I need to change some home habits so I don't slip back into them (different thread maybe).
There is a thread in La Cuisine IIRC.Today i'm feeling a lot better, i'm more mobile, functioning all correctly
Soldato
Glad you are ok
Hello.....i'm home, and i'm off pain relief, hospital sent me home yesterday with a big box of paracetamol and 30 morphine tablets to last me a week, i took one of each yesterday at home at around 5pm and haven't needed any since. I'm much more mobile now, although i'm still taking things very easy, just chilling around the house now for the next 2 weeks. My only struggle now is taking deep breaths, it still feels like a stitch when i do try, but other than that i'm pretty comfortable. Ironically, i'm kinda missing being in hosptial, made a couple of friends from the ward I was in, and it was nice being waited on hand and foot for a change 
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I guess looking back, things weren't as bad as I thought they would be, now I am where I am, the absolute worst experience of the whole week was having that tube taken out of me! I think i'd still feel mostly the same as I did before, if I do end up facing surgery again, but a little more educated about things. I guess it'll never get easy, but it is a necessity when required!
.I guess looking back, things weren't as bad as I thought they would be, now I am where I am, the absolute worst experience of the whole week was having that tube taken out of me! I think i'd still feel mostly the same as I did before, if I do end up facing surgery again, but a little more educated about things. I guess it'll never get easy, but it is a necessity when required!
Soldato
@wez130 Sounds like you are over the worst now. I had mine out in 2000 via open surgery due to the size of the gallbladder (they counted 240 stones!). I have a juicy 20cm scar. I also recall the bile-draining T-pipe and, more specifically, its removal. The doctor had student docs around and made one of them do it. He was afraid to pull hard so I had the sensation of all my organs flopping around as he pulled. It was the weirdest feeling. I got the self-administering morphine machine for three days after surgery. Visitors told me I was dribbling and not making sense, it was great. Unfortunately, I still make stones in the bile duct and have since had to have another procedure, a sphincterotomy, to stop the stones collecting at the bottom of my bile duct at the exit from the pancreas, because I kept getting pancreatitis. That was my third time under general, but seems to have settled it all down now. I get bouts of stones occasionally but only have the cramping pain as they transit and no more pancreatitis! I deal with it using over the counter co-codamol. Good luck with the rest of your recovery.
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I'm staying off the alcohol for sure, this is THE biggest deal for me, my lifestyle as a chef has had me, for the past 30 years or so, having 'a beer or 2' after work being pretty normal after every shift, and on my day(s) off, i'll drink more than a couple, but still not excessive (maybe 6 or 7 x330ml bottles). So while I can control when to stop drinking so I don't get drunk or drink a huge amount, it's still extremely regularly. I got E.Coli in about October last year and I stopped drinking for about 12 days while I was suffering with it and I was really proud of myself for doing it, and then when it was over, I thought that wasn't too bad, maybe I can control my consumption and just have 1 or 2 a night, but before I knew it, I was back to my usual amount and I just don't have that self control once I start again so this time, I really want to figure out how I can still enjoy a beer maybe once or twice a week but have the self control to not drink the rest of the week. I need to change my normal habits in other aspects of my life to try andhelp with this but it's hard with my job as I have to be up for work at 4am, i'm usually going to bed at 7.30/8pm, so i'll wind down from about 6pm and watch a bit of TV or something.
I also really want to look at my diet too, being a chef, when i'm at home, i really don't feel like cooking and eating a healthy balanced meal when i've spent all day cooking as it is so i'll just usually make something quick to eat, like a pizza, or a jacket potato or something, I spend my workday grazing at food at work and don't eat proper meals, so again, this is going to be difficult to make a plan too. I did ask the doctors at hospital if I should look at making changes to my diet now i've had my gall bladder out and he said I don''t need to make any changes specifically for that reason.
Yes! That's what I think the nurses felt when they were trying to remove the pipe, they were afraid to pull too hard and man! That feeling is the worst!!!
One thing I dislike about New Zealand is you can't get Co-codamol over the counter here! I don't even think you can buy strong ibuprofen (400mg+) either!
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