Gallbladder Surgery

I’m still alive. I promise.

I’m sorry for the two weeks of silence. It was recently decided by my doctors that my gallbladder needed to be removed. I had quite a few gallstones due to my weight loss and I was having mild attacks multiple times a week. Technically, the surgery was elective as I wasn’t having the extremely painful attacks that are signs of gallbladder malfunction or blocked ducts. That was something I wished to avoid. I’m a stay at home mom of three kids. My husband works two hours away. If my gallbladder attacked while I was home alone with the kids, I would have to call an ambulance, and they couldn’t take all three kids with us. It was a recurring nightmare and major source of anxiety. Not that surgery wasn’t a major source of anxiety. I had never had major surgery before, and let me tell you, I was scared.  

How I’ve lost 40 lbs in 79 days

I mentioned in my writing yesterday that I am on a new journey to health and wellness. The first step of that journey was to realize that I am grotesquely overweight. The second step was to seek help.