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I spent this past weekend in the hospital with gall bladder issues

I experienced a level of pain I’ve not had in a long time…My brother said that I looked and acted like a woman in labour – couldn’t sit/stand or lay down

Because emergency literally can’t do anything for you except mask/alleviate the pain, they did an ultra sound and showed me how enlarged and angry the gall bladder is…I wanted to kick the Dr in the head it hurt so bad…

They give you lots of fluids (in hopes the stone will flush out of the duct and stop the pain) If it persists they send you to a surgeon and they try blasting the stone with laser. And if that doesn’t work surgery to remove it…Apparently there is a rather long waiting list for surgery…

And apparently I’m lucky in that the morphine they gave me stopped the pain and knocked me out…So they sent me home with some extra morphine and admonished me to drink lots of water. (which I haven’t had to take as yet)

Here’s hoping that doesn’t happen again.

That makes the “sick” list now officially at 22 items:

1. Born with pyloric stenosis – first surgery at 21 days
2. had endometriosis – seems to have been stopped by hysterectomy
3. had a dermoids cyst causing an ovary to be removed
4. Had ACL reconstruction couple with Patella/Quadriceps tendon repair
5. Experimented with all of the street drugs available until the late 80’s
6. Crohn’s Disease
7. PTSD (caused by sexual abuse, verbal and physical abuse as well as being stabbed)
8. hiatus hernia
9. high blood pressure/hypertension
10. HRT
11. atherosclerosis
12. arthritis
13. Cogan’s Dystrophy
14. Diabetes Type 2 (insulin dependent)
15. Achilles tendinitis as well as right arm to shoulder, right hip and knee
16. Morbid Obesity
17. Androgenic (idiopathic) Alopecia
18. Asthma/Bronchitis
19. Capsicum Allergy
20. Septic arthritis hips, knees and shoulders
21. Gerd
22. Gall Bladder isusues

I came to work this morning and found a book on the way in called “Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions” for free!
Can’t beat that eh?  Seems like it was made for me eh?

So I’m at work  today …But I wouldn’t say I’m playing with a completely full deck of cards

started watching this movie last night
took me 3 tries to get through it.

here’s what I think:

Although I have not served ( was never healthy enough to get into service). I have a personal ethic of respect for people that give their lives in service to their country and the people in it.

I think that a movie like this…while heartbreaking and very hard to watch, don’t happen often enough…people need to have a clearer understanding on a visceral level what war can and will do to humanity.

I am not glorifying war…I am speaking only about the reality that those that have not served can only imagine.  Every man and woman in North America should thank their lucky stars that there are people willing to do the job knowing full well the consequences…and they should step up to the plate to do whatever is necessary to assist those same people when they come home. What.fucking.ever.

that.is.all.