gall stones club

pepsi wrote: Oh kidney stones Is that the kind that you pee out?

sure is....

Gotta love pethidine...

10 years ago, i had (what i now know to be) gall stones. I biked (poor student!) to my local A & E and they diagnosed me as having hepititis C! hmm.

Two days later I was in hospital, having turned bright yellow after having an attack, a couple of days later I was in southern cross hospital (mum and dad admitting that i did indeed have private health insurance and that they were going to 'surprise' me with it at my birthday - odd people) where they performed keyhole surgery to remove my gallbladder. A nick under my boobs, a nick to the right of my belly button and the last nick in my belly button.

One gallstone was still going down the tract, and well it was more painful than all the rest because i thought they had 'got' all of them and they gave me pethidine. I bring that particular memory to the fore when I most need cheering up - it made me seriously happy and drowsy...bliss.