My surgeon's office let me know that my gallbladder ultrasound showed a 3 cm stone. The nurse said that was a rather large stone and she was wondering if I had been having any pain or feeling sick related to it. Honestly, it hasn't been that bad, I can remember maybe 2 or 3 nights in the last 6 months or so where I had pain and felt sick for the evening after eating a greasier meal. I never ended up in the ER or even at my doctor's office, just felt miserable for the night and the next day it was better. I asked if most people with stones had their gallbladders out while the surgeon was in there anyway, it makes sense to do it. I am leaning towards having him take it out. Odds are I am going to develop more stones as I lose weight and there will have to be another surgery to take the gallbladder out, it's highly likely, so why not just yank it while you're in there doc!! I haven't heard back from the nurse as to whether or not the surgeon would agree to do it or not. Hopefully they will just take it out. I am already going to be off work for the gastric bypass, I'd hate to have to take off again a year or so later for gallbladder surgery.
Tomorrow is the first of my three monthly weigh ins at the surgeon's office as part of the medically supervised diet required by my insurance. I hope their scale will show the 4 pound loss my scale showed last Thursday when I weighed in (or more) :)
I am going to go get a gym membership next week and start working out there now, before I even have the surgery. I know there will be a time post-op that I will have to take it easy but if I work on getting in better shape now maybe my recovery will be faster. They just moved the Snap fitness in our town to a strip mall that is literally within walking distance of my house. I've gone there before when they were in their old building and I really liked it. I hope to be able to afford a personal trainer after I recover from my surgery even if I only see the trainer twice a month I think it will help keep me on track and give me a more solid plan to follow. I guess I will need to wait and see how that pans out.
I will post tomorrow how my weigh in goes at the surgeon's office.
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