Menage à Trois Bingo

It's been a hectic few weeks here in the Rivendell household.

Chris had been having a pain in his right side for apparently years now, but nothing was diagnosed. Three-four weeks ago, it got suddenly much worse, and he went to urgent care, where they did an ultrasound and told him it's probably his gallbladder and he should see a gastroenterologist. The first one he could find who could see him was the surgeon who did Tammie's recent colonoscopy, in Ste Genevieve. He went to see the surgeon, who had another ultrasound done because the first one was "not good quality", and told him he had gallstones and should make an appointment to have the gall bladder removed. But that their hospital didn't have equipment capable of handling a person of his size (he has been calling himself a frost giant lately), so gave him a referral to a surgeon at Missouri Baptist.

It took a few days of calling but he finally got in touch with the MoBap surgeon, who *also* told him their equipment wasn't big enough, and he should go to the ER at BarnesJewish. Thursday last, we did that. Spent all of Thursday night in the ER--where they did yet another ultrasound--finally admitted to the hospital Friday morning early. They still weren't sure they were actually going to remove his gallbladder; apparently he was borderline on the criteria they use to decide whether it's an emergency or should be done as scheduled semi-elective surgery. He kept insisting that he couldn't live with the pain for another six weeks--which seemed likely to be the timeframe for the elective surgery--and eventually they set him up for surgery Saturday morning.

Surgery was successful, I have seen a picture of what he's calling GallStoneHenge (six large and a heap of small gallstones), and he was released Sunday afternoon. Recovery is going well, he felt better the day after surgery than the day before, and keeps improving. Yay!

Meanwhile, Tammie is traveling for work. This is the third week in a row that she's been gone. She's home on the weekend, but of course we have to spend most of it getting her stuff ready to leave again (All The Laundry). So I was the one who spent Thursday and Friday at the hospital with Chris until she got home Friday evening and was able to join us.

Meanwhile meanwhile, Rosa was attending a convention that same weekend, and had a costume not-quite-finished that she wanted to wear. So I got to work on sewing the costume while sitting in a hospital visitors chair. But it got done!

In among all that, I finished my owl post gifts. Woohoo!