Darn It!

The past few months, I have had some weird "tummy" symptoms and some random, sharp shooting pains in my right side. Back in November, I finally went to see my doctor. She sent me for an ultrasound of my gallbladder and then followed up with a scan to measure how well my gallbladder functions.... Come to find out, I have "chronic cholecystitis" (a gallbladder that was functioning at 19%) and was scheduled to have my gallbladder removed! Well, thanks to dear, little Lucy, I had long ago met my medical deductible for the year (as well as used all my sick days for the year) so I hurried to find a surgeon who could get this taken care of before the end of the year. That way, I would be off work for a few weeks to recover and have help from family who would also be off work.... Thank goodness for favors and great connections, because I was lucky enough to get scheduled with a super surgeon here in Kenosha on December 21. Surgery was scheduled for 7:30. Dan and I checked in to the hospital at 5:30 am, surgery took about 25 minutes, and I was back home sleeping in my own bed by 9:30 that morning! Lifting the kiddos has been a little hard, and our house was not quite as clean as I would have liked for the past few days, but all in all, I feel pretty good! Not quite the way I planned to spend my holiday break, but I am thankful to have this taken care of while I had the time off, and will be able to return to work in January feeling great!

In case you were curious.....