So, I was sitting at my desk chatting with Kathleen, and Julie walks by, and I'm talking about how I keep feeling so sick after eating these days, and I can't eat too much or late at night and I have been getting the most terrible indigestion and stomach pains (yes, I am one of those dull people who loves to discuss her symptoms at length, but you knew that, didn't you?) and both Kathleen and Julie looked at each other and said, as one:

"Gallbladder."

Gallbladder? Gallstones? Me? But I looked at this site and I totally have all of those symptoms, including the ones about feverish and chills, so I guess it's lucky that I'm already going to the doctor on Friday morning for blood tests and asthma diagnosis, so we can throw the gallbladder in, too.

At least I haven't started turning yellow yet. Aren't I too young to have my body start rebelling on me like this? For Chrissakes, I'm not yet 40!

I wrote to my list asking is anyone had had any problems, gall-bladder-wise, and my heavens the response! You'd think that maybe it was a pre-requisite to have gall-stones before you could be my reader!

Anita sent me stories of her boyfriend's emergency surgery, Amy reminded me of her horror (as far as I'm concerned the worst bit is the bit about not being able to leave the hospital before farting energetically enough), and Patrick emailed me asking how I could possibly have forgotten about his emergency operation! I told him that if he hadn't taken down his journal maybe I would have remembered.

And everyone was talking about exactly how I feel. Sunshyn mentioned spicy food, and I realized that that was when this started, because I ate tortellini at night and woke up unable to breathe, later realizing that it must have been that thing called indigestion that I had never had before. But that I am damned familiar with now!

The only major symptom that I don't have is the pain in my back, but, as Patrick said, "That's coming. And you don't want it." I've even had the pain in my right side, but since I have spent my entire life with intermittent pains in my right side, I didn't think anything of it, except that it was peculiar, because I hading had My Pain (as I so called it in my pseudo-Victorian way) in about five or six years.

The revolting digestive issues I never thought much of either, because I have the most delicate system around, hard to believe if you saw me, but true nonetheless. But it's when you add all those things together, nausea and running to the bathroom after meals, indigestion in the night, occasional pain in my right side, belching, fever and chills, horrible cramping, it all seems to add up.

I never realized that I got sick after fatty meals, because, seemingly, all I eat are fatty meals. I tried to think of non-fat foods and I was drawing a blank. I ate caramels at my desk all day, because they were the only things that didn't set me off again. Good old caramels.

Patrick said after he had his out, he lost forty pounds because he was on a completely non-fat diet for a month afterwards. Sounds like a nice side benefit, but not nice enough to actually want to have an operation right before Christmas and I have a show to do.

Of course, I am putting the gall-bladder before the horse, as it were, I need to see what the doctor says first.

Today's horoscope:
Changes in your routine habits allow you to save more money. You find you "need" less than before.

One year ago today:
Nothing like seeing a film for the first time and having it seem like it's the second.

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