Cut me some slack!

In the wee hours of the 26th, I took my bedtime pills and almost immediately an intense pain popped up on my right side, just under my ribs.  I thought maybe I didn't drink enough water with my pills and they got stuck or something.  I drank a lot more, that didn't help.  I made a piece of toast thinking that surely that would push them down.  It didn't help.  I also got diarrhea right after that ... and it was bright green.  I knew something was weird.  I figured it was either a kidney stone or a gall stone. I lay in pain on my bed debating what I should do. The last thing I wanted to do was wake Mat up and drag him to Emergency.  Ultimately, that's what we did.

The fear I had was that I would get there, the pain would go away, and they would think I was crazy and paranoid. Which I am. That's what happened.  The pain was intense for about 3 ½ hours and then subsided.  They did an ultrasound and could see junk in my gall bladder, kind of "pre" stones I guess.  I explained to the nurse and the ER doc what else is going on with me, the cancer and a blood clot in my lung a mere 2 weeks ago.  And now this!  I was feeling picked on a little bit ... c'mon! Cut me some slack!  I told the ER doc I didn't expect them to do anything, but that I would let my team at Huntsman know and let them decide what to do.  I have another ultrasound scheduled at Huntsman on Monday, then I think things will get resolved pretty quickly.  I'm almost sure they will remove it soon.  I understand gall bladder removal is only a small thing these days, two small incisions and they scope it out.