well,
saturday or
sunday i was supposed to get a call from the
doctor. her suspicion is that i have a stone or scar tissue remaining in the bile duct causing pain worse than the
gallbladder attacks i had which necessitated surgery in the first place. friday was excruciating. i went to the emergency clinic and their first initial concern was that my
pulse was 120 despite a
blood pressure that was normal (100/80). as the pain eased, so did my
pulse. the second time the doc checked it i was at a comfortable 70. while the pain is present i get so hot and sweaty -- that also eases with the pain. the doc took
blood, letting me know that the tests she was going to perform may indicate a gallstone or scar tissue, but that if it comes up
negative it doesn't mean there's no stone. ugh. i don't want to go through this all over again. this morning i was hoping that maybe the doc had called my work number and left a message there about the result, but no such
luck.
so nervously i wait.
the weekend was fun. friday, the man insisted we get a hand-crank
ice cream maker, but after hitting more than 10 stores we had only found electric ice cream makers which use no ice... instead the metal drum must be
frozen overnight. finally we found the closest we were gunna get. a bucket-type ice cream maker with an
electric motor. we found it at
walmart, in the
toy section. we took it home, made some
ice cream, and had a midnight
barbeque.
saturday evening was a night of
sushi gluttony.
sunday, despite the forcasters
prediction of a wonderful weekend, was
rainy. very. sunday i headed back to
maryland, singing along with the cd that the man made for me. then i slept most of the day.
now it's the start of another
week. i'll keep ya posted...
still no word from the doc. despite all the weird
gallbladder crap going on, i'm in pretty high spirits.
i feel the results of the
verison strikes. i cannot get through to
411. ah well. i found a way around it.
more storms coming. of course. this is the
summer for non-stop
rain, it seems. the
power is going on and off.
thunder is loud,
lightning is cool, but the
rain hasn't actually started falling yet. any minute now, though.