Had a bit of a health scare a week ago, well actually the scary part is not comletely over yet but at least I know what kind of monster I'm dealing with now. As usual it's my own fault really for not taking care of it earlier, I keep procrastinating important things often when I am focused at something and I usually like keeping my focus close to 100% at one thing when I'm dealing with it until I'm done with it which more often then not it ends in me losing complete interested in it later. It's kind of finding that one new song you love but not being able to control yourself from listening to it all day so a week goes by and you've literally killed it and can't stand listening to it again, even if you happen to hear it again many months later you remind yourself of the time you started hating it more than what it was that made you love it in the first place. Oh well, that sidetracked a little bit, but anyway.
So I've been having some chest pains few hours after eating for some time now, not regularly and often with longer breaks in between but it has happened more times than I can count in the past 6 to 9 months. One time before it resulted in me going to the hospital because the pain was just too strong but there they weren't sure what exactly it was and we were just about to move crosscountry so I didn't stay to figure out what more they could come up with and once in our new place I kinda tried to forget about it and when the pain reappeared it was usually not in the same contrast, it was bearable with some pain killers and a lot of throwing up.
This time was different, it lasted for a few days, in between those days it almost stopped for a little while but as soon as I put something in my mouth again the feeling and pain came back almost instantly and I was starting to get hungry but even worse, sleepy which is something I hate being and not being able to do something about since I entered my thirties. Since it was persisting for this long this time around I figured it be best I do something about it and go check up on it. At the doctors they xrayed my stomach, did some blood tests and turns out it was pretty easy to tell what it was after the xray (which they didn't do in my first hospital visit in that other country for some reason), apparently I had pancreatitis. The gallbladder had infected my pancreas and the mixture of pain meds I happened to find laying around in the house this time around were apparently not a good mix and did more damage to my stomach than the infection would've done on it's own which caused it to spread and last that long and become even worse.
Now 5 days or so later I'm finally regaining some energy from the few days without sleep or food, although I've just been laying in bed receiving nutrients through my veins and only had my phone on me until today when I got my laptop as well, it's been pretty boring I have to admit. Especially sharing a room with two really deep snorers who've probably smoked for twice as many decades as I've been alive for (thanks for the sleeping pills last night btw, nurse) but been trying to get some Steem things done today and also getting a couple posts out for those who missed my shitposts. Might be posting more for the time being, until the day I stop. :p ... whenever that day comes, anyway. Apparently after the infection is gone I might get my gallbladder removed completely cause apparently you don't even fucking need it in the first place, who knew?!
I read the other day that it works like a bile pump depending on the food intake but sometimes the bile gets stuck there and becomes crystallized into stones or whatever which then goes out as gallstones and damages all other shit randomly. In that same post I was reading (can't remember which, was from 2015 I think) the author said that the gallbladder was actually pretty oldschool for our evolution and mainly needed back in the days when we just hunted animals to eat and the next meal could take anywhere between hours to many days. Hence we don't even really need it now anymore that our next food source is so much more secure (sorry parts of the world where this is not true) and on top of that a lot of our stomach could also be removed nowadays considering we don't really need to preserve food for that long or hold it in for other reasons. Get faster up to date, evolution!
Anyway, if I'll be doing this operation it'll be my first one so that's gonna be interesting, hoping the scars aren't too bad although I heard it really is not that bad for this kind of procedure, haven't googled anything yet as I'll just let it surprise me. :P
Have you had your gallbladder removed? or something similarly useless (apparently) like your appendix?
