Weight loss by cheating! The gall stone is gone! Yippee!

I am so glad it went well for you, Happy new year!!! Lee
Kate Dicey wrote in message
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I got home on Christmas Eve, and my sister delivered the lad home
shortly after. HE, naturally, had had a lovely time. Mine was less
fun...

I've been a bit quiet here recently, in part at least due to a wonderful
timing of my gall bladder op! 23rd December! I do so love the NHS!
This was the follow-up from my illness back in June.

It was touch and go for a moment or three on the keyhole, as the stone
was almost too big to allow it! As a result, I have 'Church Door'
keyhole! The hole the stone came out through is over an inch long.
'Expect everything to take a little longer to settle', they warned.

Everything is settling down ok, though I'm still on fairly big doses of
pain killers, and I have to take it easy for a few days more... GA's
always take an age to wear off me - I wasn't really awake until midnight
- 13 hours after going down for the op! Yesterday morning was painful,
but be last night things were better. The only trouble is that the GA
has left me with a throat that is liable to produce dry patches and
coughing fits at no notice, and coughing is the very LAAAAAST thing I
want to do! OUCH doesn't begin to cover it! Still, all things
considered, the copious gas eruptions included, it's not as bad as
June! A lot less painful than having my wisdom teeth out, for sure!

The stitches are very neat and of the dissolvable variety, so will leave
little scarring. Not that I ca wot are 4 small scars compared to the
pain of gallstones? NOWT! I go back in 3 months for a check up.

I got most of the things I was supposed to do before Christmas done, as
did DH. He also did a great job with the Christmas dinner. Venison and
vegetables cooked to perfection! Yummy! AND I managed to stay UNDER my
total points for the day! Mind you, that was at least in part due to
the suppressed appetite after the GA... Takes several days to work back
up to normal, I find, especially as I'm not doing much!

We still have a few things to get ready for Yorkshire and the New Year,
but most things are done.

I have the most elegant and sexy (NOT!!) surgical stockings to wear for
the next 6 weeks as part of the NHS's drive to reduce post operative
DVT... The leg bit fits OK, but how they expect me to walk about with
6" of fabric flappin' round me toes, I reeely cannot say! Shoes? NOT
wiv these fings! And I'm supposed to wear them for all but an hour a
day... Good stuff! They only gave me one pair! I shall have to see
about getting a second pair, and a couple of pairs of Flight Sox fer
evenings out! Otherwise washing them could be amusing... They might
get a bit grey and wiffy!

Here's wishing you well for the season: if you don't see me as much as
usual, it's probably because I'm still asleep! I also have a couple of
new cookbooks to work through, a new kitchen gadget to play with (a
Bamix wand mixer), and plenty of new sewing stuff, including some
Fiskar's Dressmakers Sheers! And I'll be 'orff' for a few days at New
Year, rioting in Yorkshire! (It's always a Riotus Assembly!)
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Kate XXXXXX
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
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