It's good to be alive

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by randlemanboater

Glad you are back on your feet D.

In 2011 I was going to the gym regularly, riding bicycles a couple hundred miles a week, eating semi well, in great shape...but I kept getting sick.

Sinus and ear infections, occasionally just vomiting for no apparent reason, even ended up with pneumonia. This went on for 9 or 10 months.

Eventually I had a gall bladder attack (there is no mistaking when you are having one of those). My gall bladder was so infected that I had to lay in the hospital for 2 days on IV antibiotics before it could be removed.

My surgeon said that I probably had the gall bladder infection the whole time I was having all the other problems. My body was busy fighting it so all the other things were able to get me.

I did NOT have any stones.

A note on post gall bladder removal, at first you really have to watch fat intake, a hot dog or ranch dressing will shoot through your system like a freight train.

All these years later, hot dogs can still give me a little problem if I eat too many of them.

Mine was infected also. I was on IV antibiotics for about 20 hours before my operation, and then for the balance of time that I was in the hospital.
It's funny though. I was cautioned by just about everyone that the first several months would be "difficult" with certain foods passing through like a freight train, yet in fact the exact opposite for the first week was the only thing that I experienced. It was more like a slow boat to China. I've had several hot dogs since the operation, as well as a few hamburgers from Mickey D's. In fact, the only thing I have noticed is a weight loss of almost 9 pounds so far. I attribute that to the fact that it seems I cannot eat a "full" meal anymore. It's more like several little meals over the course of a few hours. Weird