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Hi from hospital! šŸ™ƒ

 I’m stuck in a hospital bed waiting for surgery (been here about 26 hrs now šŸ¤Ŗ) and boredom has reduced me to writing another blog entry šŸ˜‚

I’ve been experiencing episodes of horrendous pain which is mostly felt in my upper back. This has been happening every few weeks for over a year now and absolutely nothing will ease it...I just have to wait until it passes which is usually about an hour or so.

I was seeing the physio thinking the problem was my back (because that was where I felt the most pain), but I started to realise that my stomach would get very bloated and sore too and I would get nauseous and sometimes vomit. The pains felt similar to labour, but unlike contractions there were no breaks... just constant almost unbearable pain. I thought maybe I was intolerant to something I was eating because the pains would always come on not long after eating dinner. I spoke to my GP and straight away he said it sounded like gallstones and wanted me to get an ultrasound to check. The ultrasound showed that I did indeed have gallstones and if they were to continue to give me grief that I needed to have my gallbladder removed.

So that brings me to here and now šŸ˜…

Wednesday night around 1am the pain started and this time it did not go away! It was the worst pain I’ve ever felt... even worse than giving birth... so after hours of waiting for it to pass, I finally went to hospital and was so grateful to hear they would remove it for me! But it’s been a much longer wait than I expected and definitely not the nice restful night away from Oscar that I sometimes fantasise about šŸ˜‚

Highlight of my time in hospital so far was watching the bachelor finale with my entertaining roommate last night (Oof how painful was it to watch Bella get rejected šŸ˜¬šŸ˜¬šŸ˜¬) and finally getting to eat a hot meal after fasting all day (hospital food has never tasted so good! šŸ˜‚)

Good news is I’m third on the list for surgery today and hopefully if it all goes to plan I can come home tomorrow! It’s not been nice at all being away from Oscar and Jordan (no visitors because of COVID of course šŸ™„) but I am so grateful I can finally put an end to these painful episodes and at least move on from one difficult aspect of life right now šŸ˜… Now for Melbourne to just get out of lockdown already! šŸ¤Ŗ





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  1. UnknownSeptember 25, 2020 at 7:23 PM

    Hi Jade
    so sorry to read that your suffering with your gallbladder . I had mine taken out years ago due to similar issues. you definitely have empathy and sympathy rom me. wishing you a speedy recovery. I will keep you in my prayers
    hugs
    hayley Price x

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