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Dutch Star David · 03-05-2013, 04:18 PM

Hope you will on the mend soon.

JohnInAz · 03-05-2013, 05:37 PM

I had to have mine taken out 9 days ago. I am frustrated that I haven't bounced back all the way yet, but after reading your experience, I'm not as frustrated any more.
Get well soon!

Oldme · 03-05-2013, 06:00 PM

Hope you get home soon.
Had mine out 4 years ago.
I hate to go Drs. so I ignore a lot of stuff. I had none of the usual "pain" associated with gallbladder problems. Instead several time a week I would feel like I had the flue in the morning. By noon I was OK. On Friday I could barely standup. Weak, dehydrated with nice yellow eyes.

When I went to the ER I signed a DNR / NO life support.

My BP fell to 40/60 and I started to black out l I told the nurse I was leaving. At first she did not understand then when she saw the BP my feet went up, head down and she would slap me every few min. saying " NOT on my shift"!

I stayed in the ER from 11AM until 10PM before I was stabilized enough for a room. The gallbladder had caused a massive systemic whole body infection. IVs for everything was going.

After the microsurgery the morphine was great. I at first refused it! Then my back acted up. After the first morphine went into the IV I was pain-free for a week.

Being 61 then, it took several weeks before I was back to work. All good now and as an added benefit even my lactose intolerance is gone.

Wish you a speed return.

Route 66 · 03-05-2013, 06:49 PM

Fortunately the hospital here has for the most part gotten away from morphine as it causes nausea and isn't as a effective as dilaudid.

They gave me dilaudid in the ER for my gallbladder attack and it's the strongest pain reliever they have.

I first had dilaudid 2 years ago after my colon resection post op as the morphine didn't help and made me nauseous.

Sammie · 03-05-2013, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by TXiceman

Friday I had my slugged up GB removed. I am back in the hospital with afever that spikes to 102.2. So far all the blood work, CAT Scans show everything is normal. So the "witch doctors" are sending me through 2 day IV antibiotics to see if that is the cure.

I am ready to go home.

Ken

Ken,

Get well wishes to you from one Schnauzer lover to another. Hope your home soon as the hospital is no fun. I'm in recovery from the big C that I had in my throat last year and it seems like the older you get the longer it takes to recover. This getting old crap really sucks.

Sammie

TXiceman · 03-05-2013, 07:49 PM

Well I was feeling good enough that I made the great escape. I managed to evade the cops and got home.

Sammie, my Mom said that gettin' old was not for sissies.

Ken

Barbara S. · 03-05-2013, 09:32 PM

Congratulations on your "escape".

Let me know if there is anything I can do to help ya'll.

Oldme · 03-06-2013, 09:20 AM

Congratulations on the escape.

I am glad things are looking up.
Now to set back and heal, which not doing what you want to do may be the hardest part. My wife kept telling me "your not 30 anymore".

Ref a comment on the morphine above:
For several years the hospitals got away from morphine.
Now they are returning to it. I do not know if they were giving me something to stop nausia or not, but I had no problems with that. The nurse would show up every 6 hours with the needle to put in my IV and back to pain free land.
The worse part was the removal of the drain tube. I wish I had the morphine for that, but I was on nothing when they did that procedure.

When my son was alive, he had kidney stones and he was Active Duty Navy.
I was surprised to find they would hand him a bottle of morphine pills anytime he went in with kidney stone pain. It was SOP for them. No questions.

Glad you are out. Hope you have a speedy recovery.

TXiceman · 03-06-2013, 10:23 AM

They gave me couple of doses of morphine and I told them, nada mas. I feel great while it is working but afterwards, I feel like dog-do.

I also cannot take codine,oxycodone, hydracodone, talwin...

Ken

JC2 · 03-06-2013, 12:04 PM

Hey Ken

Just picked up on this thread about ya'll not feeling good and thought I would fwd you a secret family treatment that is garunteed to make you feel better.

Anything for a friend in need is my motto.

TXiceman · 03-06-2013, 03:04 PM

Nope, too much Jim Beam and I get a head ache afterwards. Maybe the solution is to stay drunk. But one of the antibiotics is very specific and says alcohol is verboten.

Ken

Tumble Weed · 03-07-2013, 06:55 AM

Glad to hear your doing good Ken.
I hope you know since you said it wasn't any fun
I'M taking it off my bucket list.
Even if it does involves morphine, nurses and cute
hospital gowns, wow can't belive I ever would say that.
Your in our prayers

KDbug · 03-07-2013, 07:41 AM

Sorry to hear you were having a bad time. Glad to hear you escaped, My theory is all hospitals make sure you don't want to stay by bugging the mess out of you always works.
Hope for a fast recovery from this point

Elkhartjim · 03-11-2013, 05:16 PM

Holy cow...I don't check in on the forum for a while and find the reason you weren't at the recent get together. I hope you're on the mend by now. I go tomorrow to Anderson for another ultra sound on my gall bladder. They are hopeful I won't have to have it removed...aging sucks but of course it beats the alternative.