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Gall Bladder Tales....

It started in December.  I woke up in the middle of the night with this incredible pain in my stomach on the right side.  I COULD NOT GET ANY RELIEF.  I crawled into the hottest tub I could stand.  I writhed on the floor.  I cried out to God.  I finally woke Kyle and asked him to take me to the hospital.  We went and they worked me up for a kidney stone.  I was in so much pain.  When we left, the doc said "We don't see a stone, but it had to have been a stone.  Maybe you passed it.".   As exhausted as I was at that point, I accepted that diagnosis and we moved on. A couple of months later, I had 10 people here for dinner.  I suddenly had to excuse myself.  That pain was back.  The feelings of panic, embarrassment, possibly even the feeling that I was over reacting to something that anyone else could have handled much easier... these all overwhelmed me.  I took the only pain meds I had and hid in my bedroom.  2 hours later, I felt at least 50% better and I came out of