Christmas hospital trips and not alot else

Well, I can definitely say that this Christmas was different.

While at J's parents place on Christmas day, killing time before the serving of the traditional turkey and trimmings, I was struck with a bout of (what I thought was) indigestion pain. J's Mum, being a clever nursey type, said that's not indigestion. It's apparently not supposed to be that bad. So following two calls to South Doc and one visit to South Doc, I found myself sitting in the A&E department of CUH.

After 3.5 hours, the nice American/Canadian doctor said 'I can't provide pain relief cos you're pregnant' and sent me on a wheelchair ride over to the maternity hospital.

After another round of poking, peeing into bottles and answering the same questions, they decided they liked the look of me and kept me for the night. So after missing my turkey and trimmings, I got a bed and tea & toast at 1:30am, 26th Dec. And why? It's most likely I have gallstones. I spent St Stephen's night in hospital too - as they were about to discharge me that morning, my body decided that bourbon creams with tea (recently consumed for elevenses) were a good reason to attack and the pain came back. I got Pethidine for that :-)

Since leaving hospital I have had 1 bout of the extremely severe and horrible pain from gallstones and as long as I stay away from chocolate and rich or fatty foods I should be fine (so far so good).

That's about the most interesting thing that happened over Xmas. I do have to thank J's mum who provided us with leftover turkey, so I got my seasonal fix. We didn't travel anywhere for fear of getting struck down in gallstone induced agony.

I have a scan booked so they can confirm the presence of gallstones, as long as Beanie keeps his big head out of the way. But even so, nothing can be done until Beanie has made his exit/entrance (really depends on your point of view there, doesn't it?). I have normal liver functions - how many of you can say that!

I will keep you posted, although, gallstones aren't that interesting.