If you don't get the joke, watch the movie "Airplane".
Today is August 18, 2009. Here is the upcoming schedule:
August 19 My father's 69th birthday - very good!
August 20 My children start school again - good for me - they are less than thrilled.
August 21 Aural Skills test at the University of Illinois - very bad.
August 21 At work we begin migrating the whole firm to Exchange 2007. Hopefully good - but also the beginning of 4 months of work - mostly at night.
August 24 My third semester of graduate school begins. So far so good?
August 26 My three year anniversary with Nicole - very good!
August 27 The 2009 Opera season auditions at the University of Illinois - both good and bad.
August 29 I start teaching at Millikin University again, Very good!
(skip a bit and drum roll please . . . . )
September 5 My wedding to Nicole! Outstanding!
Sorry to be so tedious with all the detail but I got a phone call today and now I need to add something to my schedule - surgery to remove my gall bladder. Very bad. Or at least not fun.
I have Biliary Dyskinesia - technically an 18% Ejection fraction. That means I have 18% use of my gall bladder and they have to remove it. I will say that since they gave me the news today it hurts more consistently than it did before. Must be a mental thing.
I have had what I thought was muscle cramping since last fall, and after finally going to the doctor 3 weeks ago she told me I don't have muscles where I have the muscle pain - just a gall bladder. They did a sonogram - nothing - so Friday I had a HIDA scan. They called me today with the test results.
Now as you can see I don't really have time for all this surgery nonsense, but apparently I don't get to decide. The doctor can't see me until August 28, and with a 10 day to 2 week recovery time from surgery, the numbers just don't add up here. So unless something goes very wrong, I will have the surgery after the mini-honeymoon in early September.
I won't thrill you with the information I have found on life after Gall Bladder removal, but I wouldn't recommend it. Limit dairy, spicy food, greasy food, caffeine and very sweet foods. I will miss spicy food and caffeine but I don't care about the rest.
I suppose I will actually have to sit around and watch movies during my recovery - perhaps I will start with Top Secret, Princess Bride and Airplane. That should give me enough good quotes to start at least 5 more blogs.
If anyone has suggestions for movies suited for recovery from surgery I'd love to hear them - preferably nothing with . . unpleasant bodily functions.
Wow! Dude, I'm sorry about the news... My fingers will be crossed for a successful procedure...
ReplyDeleteAlthough I must say you are limiting my movie recommendations if there cannot be unpleasant bodily functions (no South Park, Team America, etc)... But I will try to think of some...
Do you remember going to see the South Park movie... My favorite part of us going was when they began singing the "Uncle F*&ker" song, and the mother dragged her son out of the theater. :) Good times!
If you are going along the lines of Top Secret and Airplane, you gotta include the Leslie Neilson Naked Gun movies... :)