Last night around 10:30 I had the answer to my question and was awakened by a severe pain in my right lower chest/upper abdomen, it took a bit for me to realise what the heck it was but I had this pain before and it signified the return of "Mr. stupid-head" gallstone and my gallbladder was very upset. I excused myself from bed letting Lori know what was going on and went to another room to ride it out.
We had a sensible dinner as per usual no heavy sauces, lean meats and little fat; all was well. After 2 1/2 hours of pretty good pain and no sign of relief we decided it was time to head to the emergency room, we hopped into a taxi (actually it was a hobble for me) and took the 5 minute ride to emerge. Thankfully it was a slow night and we were seen right away for blood samples followed by a short wait, then another brief wait for the doctor. They all asked the same questions and all got the same answers, severe pain in the right side fluctuating from a 7/10 to a 10/10 on the "O'Geese scale", the lymphoma story and the confirmed diagnosis of whatever the medical term is for a golf ball sized gallstone, intermittent nausea but no vomiting; OK now with vomiting! The doctor did some additional poking and prodding, they did an ecg and blood pressure checks through out.
The doctor put me ordered and IV drip of fluids and then gave some feel no pain stuff in the IV as well, I remember telling Lori that this stuff (Hydromorphene) really goes to your head and then I woke up a few hours later feeling no pain and being discharged with direction to connect with my GP doctor and/or surgeon to have this addressed.
I see the GP this morning and will update when I have news; meanwhile, Lori thought you would all enjoy this...
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