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Alas, I am NOT in Vancouver right now. Instead, I have bandages all over my stomach and I have been eating applesauce and veggie broth for 48 hours now.
On Monday, I started having these brutal back/abdominal pains but I chalked it up to sleeping weird or the menses, no big deal. The only thing that would make me feel better was crouching down in the shower, so I took about 3 showers a day (sorry, environment) and my hair is probably screwed for life from all that hot water damage. Anyway, so on Tuesday night I couldn't keep any food down, worried I was preggo for one hot minute, then went to Urgent Care on Wednesday where they told me I had acid reflux. They gave me prilosec and told me to chug down Maalox and avoid eating after 7pm.
Well, acid reflux I had NOT. By Thursday, I hadn't slept since Monday because of the pain, and I also hadn't eaten more than half a banana in 3 days. Despite that I had nothing in my stomach TO re-flux, I was puking blood. So I went BACK to Urgent Care where they did tests for a good 4 hours, hooked me up with morphine, and then they told me I had to go to the ER to get my gallbladder removed ASAP. The ol' thing was INFECTED and extremely inflamed and was causing me all this grief. Yeah, kinda. I stayed in the hospital for 2 days and now my abs feel like I did 5,000 crunches. Do you realize how much abdominal muscles you use to get in and out of bed?? That shit is so DIFFICULT. I've successfully strained my neck muscles from the labored breathing that comes from laying myself down.
So now I'm no longer confined to god's plan of a digestive system and am one less organ (one less car?). But instead of walking and eating in the Pacific Northwest, I'm here on my couch, watching Planet Earth and eating pureed fruits. On the plus side, it was no problem getting credit back for my unused ticket through Expedia (dot com) and I can use it anytime in the future. I DO plan on going back to Vancouver for my cousin's wedding in July, so Suzy, let's hang out soon.
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