Severe Pain and Torment = Gallstones

Well apparently I owe McDonald's an apology. Well kinda. The food there is the reason my gallbladder acted up and sent me to the ER last Friday  night. I had the same pain as the night before only this time I let myself be talked into going to the ER. They did some tests and told me that I have a lot of gallstones. So long story short I'm having my gallbladder removed on Tuesday. Fun fun fun. I am looking forward to no more pain but not looking forward to surgery at all.
Apparently it's a pretty simple procedure and they do it all the time. And I do mean all the time. Apparently a lot of people have had this done. I had no idea it was so popular. I tend to hang on to my organs. Well except for those pesky tonsils. Those bad boys had to go. So I guess my gallbladder will go the same way as those two. I will bid it a fond farewell. After all it did last 29 years. That's better then most things these days. LOL So yeah..it'll be going to wherever those evicted organs go. Maybe there is some crazy place they keep diseased or unusable organs. Or maybe they save them and show them to med students. That's a much better thought then thinking they just throw it away. My gallbladder will live on and help others. :)
So my surgery will be on Tuesday. So hopefully Wednesday I will wake up and feel awesome. Well as awesome as you can after surgery.
I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas. I'm going to enjoy my weekend as much as I can on a low fat diet and I'll talk to you post surgery.

McDonald's = Severe pain and Torment

I ate at McDonald's yesterday with my mom and my son. I ordered the #2. For those of you who don't know that is the two cheeseburger meal. It has two small cheeseburgers with ketchup, mustard, onion, pickles, meat and cheese on a bun. You get fries and a drink with it. Normally I eat this and I'm ok. Yesterday it tried to kill me from the inside out. I was in so much pain I thought my stomach was going to explode. I cried, I threw up, I cried, I threw up. Nothing helped. I took an antacid tablet thinking it was gas or something. No help. I took some pepto (YUCK!) no help. I took two tylenol, no help. I threw up, no help. I took a shower and then threw up in the shower. I think everything I ate came up that time. But I was still in pain. I was beginning to think it was food poisoning. But my son ate there and had no problem. But then again, he had the chicken, not beef. So I go to bed and stay there until I had to throw up again. Took some different meds and drank some sprite. I passed out eventually and woke up around midnight. Found my husband on the couch and told him to go to bed.

Here I will insert that I have the best husband and two children ever. My daughter and son called my husband at work to tell him there was something wrong with me. Crazy kids. It was sweet though. Then they checked on me and did everything I asked until Carey came home. Then when he got there he took over and checked on me, got me medicine and made chicken noodle soup for dinner. He also did laundry. Poor guy, has to work all day and comes home to a wife who seems to have gone mental crying and spewing everywhere. My daughter did the dishes and kept an eye on her little brother. She's only ten so this is awesome.

I feel a little better today. Still a little squeamish. I'm afraid to eat much or drink much. If the pain comes back it'll suck big time. So I'm taking this opportunity to tell someone, anyone, everyone that McDonald's is evil. I don't know why people eat there. I don't even really like the food. If you've ever had a real hamburger there really is no comparison. I guess it's just the convenience of the whole thing. Everything is either already ready or ready in just a few minutes. I'd much rather go someplace and wait for thirty minutes to get food that isn't going to torture me for hours after I've eaten. So from this day on I will no longer be eating at McDonald's or Burger King. I don't know what they put in the food there but it's not good.

I'll call it my pre New Year New Years resolution. No more McDonalds. No more Burger King. Feel free to join me with this. Maybe if enough people stop eating there they will be forced to make decent food.

18 Days....

It's December. And there are only 18 days until Christmas day. My kids can barely contain their excitement. I get excited too this time of year. But not for the same reasons.....oh who am I kidding? I LOVE getting presents. I don't deny it, ever. I love giving presents, buy presents and getting presents. I don't think I'm greedy really, it's just the surprise factor I think. I like being surprised by what my husband picks out. He always knows exactly what I want and/or need. It makes me happy.
I think I've done pretty good this year. I've gotten or told the grandparents exactly what the kids want. So they should be happy and surprised by a couple of things. I know my daughter will be. I got her a pink BB gun. She is going to freak. She likes her brothers BB gun so I know she'll  love this one since it's all girly and stuff. She's also getting an easy bake oven from Grandma. She has been begging me for two months to get her one. So she'll be excited about that. Carson is usually happy with everything he gets but I did manage to get two things I know he'll love. I got him a huge Buzz Lightyear action figure. He's been begging for that. And I got him a nerf gun which he'll love. And a new Fisher Price iXL thingy. An educational game that will hopefully help him learn his numbers and letters. Maybe even help him start reading.
Thankfully they don't use the internet often or even read this so they don't know a thing. LOL But I can't say what I got my husband. I don't know if he reads this or not but just in case he does I can't say. But I am very confident everything I got him so far is something he wanted. So I'm looking forward to seeing his face when he opens one of them.
I got my mom one of those digital picture frames. She is always wanting new pictures of the kids and I usually keep mine on the computer. I hate to print them so I will give her the picture frame with old and new pictures of the kids so she can see them whenever she turns the frame on. I thought it was a good idea.
I will probably have a few more little things to get but nothing major. I'm going to make something for my niece and my daughter. So that'll be easy. Easy but it takes time. So I need to get started on them. But I have to wait until tomorrow since I have to buy yarn. I'm always buying yarn.
Well I guess that's enough of my pointless rambling for now. If I don't post between now and Christmas I hope all of you have a fantastic holiday season. And a very Happy New Year.