Part 1 of my gallbladder removal - week 9 | The Pardillos

Okay, before I continue with the video, I just wanted to explain the video and give you a little background. If you watched our vlog last

week

I mentioned that I had some health issues late last year so this

week

's vlog will focus on my

gallbladder

removal

surgery for anyone watching this video I hope you this video gives you an idea about

gallbladder

surgery and what to expect if you are having the same surgery so let me take you back to two years ago with my story about two years ago i started having these pains that i thought were pains in my the chest that were just below my chest.

These pains made me not breathe properly. I knew it wasn't a panic attack because I have had panic attacks. I remember the pains were getting worse and feeling like I couldn't breathe and I waited for about an hour and they still didn't go away I walked around drinking water they didn't go away when they got really bad and I and I got really scared because I thought there was something wrong with my heart I would call it triple zero and the first few times the paramedics came to our house and evaluated me at that point I could hardly breathe so they had to take me to the hospital they did all the tests on me at the hospital they did all the heart tests many tests blood tests, sonograms, ecg check, they couldn't find anything wrong with my heart, when the paramedics came to my house they gave me like strong painkillers to help me, so once that took effect.

I was in no pain and that was while I was already in the hospital where the doctors and nurses were evaluating me, that happened every six months or so and then fast forward to November 2021, this was about a week after I had other health issues that I went to the hospital which I'll talk about in another video, so this episode happened again where I couldn't breathe. I waited about an hour to see if the pain would go away, it got worse, probably because I also panicked because Again I didn't know what was going on and since I was in the hospital a week before for other things, I immediately thought this was

part

of it.

I remember that the paramedics came to my house again and because I already had the same feeling. a couple times before they thought it was my heart they did all these EKGs and all these cardiac monitoring evaluations and they gave me pain medicine they took me to the hospital I remember being in the emergency de

part

ment laying in the hospital bed and this doctor pulled up my dress and she started pressing on my stomach she was like this hurts and i was like no this is so i was like no and then she pushed to my right side and she pushed wasn't even hard like she just pushed slowly and i was like ow ow that really hurts she said it could be your gallbladder so you need to go get an ultrasound on your gallbladder and check it out too i had to do more checks with my heart because at that time while i was in the hospital for that couple of weeks um my heart rate my resting heart rate was too high so he also recommended that i buy a halter monitor to wear for 24 hours that would monitor my heart activity um after i went home from the hospital i went to my GP my GP gave me a referral for the Haltom monitor for more blood work and for an ultrasound on my gallbladder the first thing I did was um I did the blood work and then I also went for an ultrasound the technician was doing an ultrasound on my gallbladder and i remember he said um after that i had my halter monitor appointment i had to put on a halter monitor and have it on for 24 hours so after i returned my halter monitor i didnt see my GP Still because I needed it. wait until those results were sent to my GP and this was about a week after my last episode.

I had another episode where I couldn't breathe and I waited and again I thought it was, you know, I thought it had something to do with my heart because I couldn't I was having trouble breathing I remember I just waited trying to make it go away it was so uncomfortable and then I did it. what happened was because they didn't give me any painkiller no strong painkiller i could feel the pain it wasn't under my ribcage anymore but it was on this right side and this pain was unbearable like i couldn't move i never felt pain like that before so i I was so scared I didn't know what it was at the time so I went back to the hospital and told the doctor and it turned out that the pain I was feeling at first was in my digestion which I thought had to do with my heart but I guess it was just I was panicking. and then because he was giving me strong painkillers I didn't feel my gallbladder attacks, but because this last time I didn't get painkillers until the very end, when I had already felt the attacks, that's when the doctors knew I had to see with my gallbladder and not my heart so i remember i was in the hospital i had already been given painkillers he did a lot of evaluations the doctor reviewed my ultrasound results because i hadn't been to my GP yet so this doctor from the hospital checked.

My ultrasound results saw how bad my gallbladder was um as I had a lot of stones in it and that was what was causing the pain and also the lining of my gallbladder had already become inflamed so the doctor said it needed to be removed, you know what? would it happen if they took it off if we take it off now it just means you can't do anything for the next four weeks and I said ok no I can't take it off right now like I'm going to eat healthy I will. I'll do whatever it takes, but I can't delete it now because I have to finish my last nursing placement and I can't postpone that to another date, like I have to finish that, so that's what happened.

I was not going to have my gallbladder removed at that time and he said he would just get a phone call to put me on the waiting list. A couple of weeks later I got a phone call to say I was in oh. letter I actually got a letter to say I was on a three month waiting list which I think is category one or category two I think it's category one I was on a three month waiting list to have my gallbladder removed gallbladder and by that time getting the letter I had finished my placement which I was very happy about and during the time of the waiting period all I did was eat healthy I didn't eat anything that would make me fat because that was what was causing my seizures eating meat was causing my seizures which I didn't know at the time until I remembered what I ate those days that I had the seizures too quickly.

I had my surgery on the first of March.