It’s been a fun week!

That’s sarcasm. This week I had surgery. It was a fairly common one, in that I had my gall bladder removed. At this point, post-surgery, I’m not sure that I can tell you how, exactly, the gall bladder functions or how my body is able to continue without it, but apparently, it’s a fairly common procedure and I needed mine out. I trust Dr. Yassir, so we’re good to go.

I’ve been feeling pretty poopy (no pun intended) for the past few months. It was hard to describe. Eating a meal would devastate me some nights, while on other nights, it wouldn’t affect me at all. And even when I felt devastated, it was still hard to describe. I would feel lethargic sometimes. Other times, I would get stomach cramps like I had food poisoning. I was pretty low-energy and it was really difficult to tell if I was just being a grumpy turd (again, no pun intended). Thus, I went to the doctor, who said, “GALL STONES!” and had me do an ultrasound.

Gall Stones are pretty common, and if they’re there, they affect the digestion of fatty foods. The solution is to remove the gall bladder if you have them. So, I went in to get my ultrasound and it turns out that I didn’t have gall stones…I had a polyp. Polyps are clusters of cells that end up looking a bit like a mushroom. Most times, they’re benign, but in some cases, they can turn cancerous. A lot of times, they can be ignored, but the one in my gall bladder was big enough that the doctor was like, “Yep! We’re taking out your gall bladder!”