My ongoing progress report;
Liver "went to sleep" due to a bad combination of me weighing too much for nearly 50 years and deciding last summer to quit taking all medication, since I had better things (like the electric bill) to spend that money on.
Went on a non-fried foods low-fat heavy in vegetables and fruits diet; holding steady at total weight loss of 45 pounds, need to get more time carved out of my schedule for more activity (walking 7-10 miles/week is just not priming my metabolism pump.) Consequently, liver wakes up and numbers look good.
What could be wrong, right?
6-8 weeks ago, I start with a bad combination of occasional nausea and persistent abdominal/chest pain. Fearing a heart attack (but not really, because it's not always in the chest area, it seems to move from there to my right side, just under and behind the bottom ribs) I finally succumb and go to the doctor. Ready with your amateur diagnosis?
So, the thought is that by maintaining a gross high-fat diet for what seems like forever, my gall bladder was "trained" to produce enzymes at a high rate in order to process all the french fries blowing through my system. When I shutdown the tater tot train, the gall bladder, what with its small brain, can't adapt, and keeps spitting out those now useless enzymes, and they run rampant through my system like guys with hidden knives at the county fair.
I see the surgeon on the 28th, surgery soon after. I am shooting for after the 1st, so I at least burn some work days rather than the few days of break I am granted. If I get to keep the stones, I will try to remember to send them to Mike.
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