Author: exorphin

Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 10:33 am

meltalk wrote:

Ex, I know your happy to at least have a date for surgery, it was always the unknown that got the best of me. I’m glad you have a sub appointment not long after the surgery. Good luck to you and yours Mel

Thanks for your kind words, Mel.

Unfortunately, this particular date just might get moved further into the future, I’ve been informed recently.
This is because I have a bleeding disorder called "vonWillebrand’s" disease- which basically means that it
takes me longer for my blood to clot up than ppl without this condition. So, I am awaiting a call from our
local Hematology Clinic- which is included in the Oncology Dept.- for a consult with them.

However, I have had surgery (a hysterectomy) with which I had required a medicine called DDAVP at the
same hospital that I am going to have my gall bladder surgery. So, hopefully, hematology can just look at
those records, and see what I needed to cut down the bleeding with that surgery (the DDAVP); and maybe
get me in for a quick check-up with them before the 20th- the date of my gall bladder surgery. (I really hope
I am making sense, here.)

BTW, at my pre-op appointment, the surgeon informed me that I do NOT have any gall bladder stones;
the reason why they want to remove my g.b. is because I have something called "biliary dyskinesia"-
which basically means that my g.b. is only working at 10% of its normal function.

Thanks,

-ex-