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January 05, 2006 at 10:38 am

The stones!

(No, not the Rolling Stones!)

I was mistaken. When still at the hospital, I was shown what the doctor left me with — I thought it was a bag containing one yellowish gall stone. What I was really looking at was a bag with some yellowish discoloration left by the stones that were actually in the bag (the doctor gave me a bunch of gall stones, as you can see in the phtoto). I put the ballpoint pen there for a frame of reference so that you can judge the size of the stones better — they’re pretty small, eh? And, it’s interesting that some are black and some are more orange.

Anyway, I guess there were some larger stones and there were some smaller ones, but they were mostly around this size. The main problem, in my case, may have arisen due to the fact that I have (or had) an abnormally small cystic duct which was easily blockable by any number of stone sizes. So, now that I don’t have to rely on that particular duct to deliver bile to my digestive system, I may see a reduction in all sorts of life-long afflictions (I can cross my fingers anyway).

I’m still feeling pretty good. The pain is manageable, although I am tired. Another nap may be in order soon.

Update: Julianna recently informed me that the “stones” did begin as one stone and must have crumbled since we got them. The original stone, then, was about the size of a small pea.

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Hehe. Thanks, Shep.

» Comment by timsamoff () (URL), on January 05, 2006 at 12:05 pm

Oh, that’s better than most of my stories!

» Comment by timsamoff () (URL), on January 08, 2006 at 08:25 am