Full of Gall

In the Crappy Pregnancy Lottery, I won the uber-jackpot.  Between the hyperemesis, inability to breath, crazy weight gain, and general discomfort with being pregnant, it pretty much sucked.  I had an incredibly easy delivery, and was elated to be done with all the crappyness.  And then the spasms started.  I thought it was a hiatal hernia, since my mom and grandmother both have one as a result of pregnancies, so I told my OB about them at my 6-week checkup.  She said, to my surprise, that it sounded more like gallstones, and that it was actually a relatively common side/aftereffect of pregnancy (I don't believe it's that common, or more people would know about it, and nobody that I've told has ever heard that before).  So I had an abdominal ultrasound, and yes, it was gallstones.  My General Practitioner advised that the best option these days is removal, since the other methods of dealing with them are a little outdated and ineffective (the pill therapy takes 2-3 years to have any effect, and if you ever stop the pills they'll come back, and the ultrasound therapy will break them up but it doesn't cure the underlying problem so they come back).  I didn't think I'd be able to have the surgery until at least May, since Scott's going on a boat race in late April and we decided that if we couldn't get an appointment within a week of my consult (last Thursday), I'd have to wait until May.  So I thought I had a couple of months to mentally prepare.  At the appointment, however, the scheduling nurse said there was an appointment on Tuesday, the 16th at 7:30am, and would I like it.  Holy cow.  So that means that I'm going in for surgery tomorrow morning, have to report at the hospital at 5am, the surgery's about 2 hours, it's an outpatient procedure so I'll be home tomorrow afternoon/evening, and the recovery time is just a few days. 

So...yay.

In other news, my friends Curtis and Rene got engaged this past weekend!  It was a very elaborate plan, involved several of their friends (including us, we got to film it!), and was a genuine surprise for Rene.  I am incredibly happy for both of them, and I cannot wait to watch them unite after such a long romance.  Congratulations, guys!

One more bit of news, I'm intending on making this a more "Liz's Creations"-centered blog, mostly so that I don't have to write one more blog, but nothing will be changing except that the content will center a tiny bit more toward what I'm working on, what I'm learning, and will occasionally have exclusive offers and perhaps a contest or giveaway once in awhile.

I probably won't be able to blog again until at least Thursday, maybe not until next week.  See you then!  (Well, not really "see" persay, but you get the idea...)