It is What it is

Yesterday I was scheduled to have my gallbladder removed at an outpatient surgical center across the street from the hospital. Check in at 8:00am, check out around 1:00pm...awesome, I can handle that.

So they do the surgery and as I'm waking up I hear the surgeon telling me the surgery went just fine, then something about the hospital and your husband went over to register you as an inpatient.

Um, what?

During the surgery they discovered that the ultrasound I had a couple of weeks ago missed a stone that had escaped from my gallbladder and lodged itself in my common bile duct. So they admitted me to the hospital and have me scheduled for another procedure in about two hours to go in and remove the stray stone. Fortunately it doesn't require an additional surgery; they'll use a scope to go down through my stomach and into my small intestine then up the bile duct to snatch the stone.

I'm hoping they'll let me head home after I wake up from the anesthesia rather than having to spend another night here. I think I had someone waking me up about every hour or two all night last night to give meds or take vital signs, so I'm sure I'll feel better after a good night's sleep at home. When a lab tech came and woke me up at 4:30am to draw blood I almost kicked him.

I'm feeling pretty good right now, definitely still a little sore, but I'm not needing any heavy-duty pain killers at this point. Right now we're just waiting for them to come get me for the next procedure. We'll update once I'm back home and everything has been taken care of.