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Update
By: SHL Date: October 30, 2019, 1:38 pm
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Hi everyone. I hope things are going well for you all, Nikola,
Neal, Chizuko, Pawel, Sofia and whoever else is on the Board. I
promise I’ll be more active when I get this gallbladder thing
straightened out. I go into today to see a surgeon at Kaiser
Hospital at 15:30 so I’ll see what he says.
I’m a bit of a worrier, so when I have any health problems it
blocks my brain out and that’s all I can think about until the
storm has passed, so to speak. That’s why I’m been away awhile.
There’s a great website I found for people interested in getting
questions answered about anything. Even language/translation
questions, called justanswer.com. They have medical doctors on a
24/7 available basis from around the world to answer medical
questions people post, for 40$US I believe (maybe less in other
countries). I’ve used them a lot, but I think a lot of the
doctors on there think I’m crazy so they tell me usually to calm
down, see my psychiatrist and take my anxiety medication. But a
few are good. One guy told me to think twice about having my
gallbladder out. He said I needed a „HIDA Scan“, which is a
test to see how well your gallbladder is functioning. I told
him, „what difference does it make if it’s functioning at 1% or
100%? That doesn’t make any difference to me. You don’t need the
d*mn thing anyway.“ He said, „well, most people are reluctant to
have surgeries they don’t need, but if you feel that way, go
ahead and have it out. After having it out you might have a
little trouble eating fatty pizzas.“
I told that dude I had gallstones and adenomyomatosis, a benign
condition of the gallbladder, the doesn’t cause anyone any
problems, and it a bit like diverticulosis, but he said a lot of
people live with this stuff and are fine. I told him I felt like
I had a ticking time bomb in my body with these gallstones that
could good off anytime. He said most people live for years with
gallstones and don’t even know they have them.
Some wacky guy on this site even asked, „ Where can I find a
doctor to do a gallbladder transplant? I had my gallbladder out
and I want it back. Willing to travel.“ Some doc answered him
and said, „There has never been a gallbladder transplant done in
the history of medicine. And no doctor would ever do one.“ This
guy wrote back and asked „Why not?“ The doctor said „Because
it’s a nonessential organ, and you’d have to live on
anti-rejection medicines your whole life, which would make you
more susceptible to infections, and even cancer. So we only
transplant essential organs. Like hearts, kidneys, lungs and
livers.“ Then this fool wrote, „How come your body doesn’t just
get used it in 6 months or a year?“ And I though lawyers only
had crazy people to deal with.
Yeah, but what of I’m over in Germany or in Prague (which I plan
on visiting) and get a gallbladder attack? I’d end up in an
emergency room over there. How am I going to find a hospital in
Prague? Search the Internet I guess. Better safe than sorry I
say. I’m sure they have great hospitals in Prague but how’s a
tourist to find one? And what’s their emergency number? These
are things are
you have to keep in mind with gallstones when traveling. I know
Germany’s emergency number is 112 but at least I can speak the
language and say if I were in agony over a passing gallstone
(they are REALLY BAD. Horrible pain like having a baby without
anesthesia when a stone blocks a bile duct).
Anyway, just wanted to say hi. I smashed up the glass on my new
iPhone by dropping on a hardwood floor in the house (can you
imagine that?) Horrible. Now the guy at the shop says it’s
going to cost $179US to replace.. oh well, wishing everyone good
health and a nice day. Steve
#Post#: 19562--------------------------------------------------
Re: Update
By: Nikola Date: October 30, 2019, 2:02 pm
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[quote author=SHL link=topic=1381.msg19561#msg19561
date=1572460738]
I told that dude I had gallstones and adenomyomatosis, a benign
condition of the gallbladder, the doesn’t cause anyone any
problems, and it
Yeah, but what of I’m over in Germany or in Prague (which I plan
on visiting) and get a gallbladder attack? I’d end up in an
emergency room over there. How am I going to find a hospital in
Prague? Search the Internet? Better safe than sorry I say. I’m
sure they have great hospitals in Prague but how’s a tourist to
find one? And what’s there emergency number? These are things
are
you have to keep in mind with gallstones when traveling. I know
Germany’s emergency number is 112 but at least I can speak the
language and say if I were in agony over a passing gallstone
(they are REALLY BAD. Horrible pain like having a baby without
anesthesia when a stone blocks a bile duct).
[/quote]
That would be very difficult for you because we don't have
hospitals in Prague. Or emergency numbers. We just leave people
on the street and then the wolves come and take care of the
bodies. But please do come and visit :)
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Re: Upda
By: SHL Date: October 30, 2019, 2:52 pm
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[quote author=Nikola link=topic=1381.msg19562#msg19562
date=1572462179]
[quote author=SHL link=topic=1381.msg19561#msg19561
date=1572460738]
I told that dude I had gallstones and adenomyomatosis, a benign
condition of the gallbladder, the doesn’t cause anyone any
problems, and it
Yeah, but what of I’m over in Germany or in Prague (which I plan
on visiting) and get a gallibladder attack? I’d end up in an
emergency room over there. How am I going to find a hospital in
Prague? Search the Internet? Better safe than sorry I say. I’m
sure they have great hospitals in Prague but how’s a tourist to
find one? And what’s there emergency number? These are things
are
you have to keep in mind with gallstones when traveling. I know
Germany’s emergency number is 112 but at least I can speak the
language and say if I were in agony over a passing gallstone
(they are REALLY BAD. Horrible pain like having a baby without
anesthesia when a stone blocks a bile duct).
[/quote]
That would be very difficult for you because we don't have
hospitals in Prague. Or emergency numbers. We just leave people
on the street and then the wolves come and take care of the
bodies. But please do come and visit :)
[/quote]
Nikola. You are tooooooo funny! :)
I’m quite sure Prag has some of the best hospitals in the world
and best doctors. They do liver transplants in Prague, one of
the most difficult, complex and challenging operations in
medicine. So, I would be very comfortable in a Prag hospital to
be honest with your (I’ve read scholarly medical journal
articles written by Czech physicians, which are so complex you
can barely get through them without being a doctor, about
gallbladder surgery). I wonder if they would do a gallbladder
transplant for me if I changed my mind..... ;)
Thanks for writing. Have a nice evening and stay warm (while we
are burning up with fire fires and having power outages over
here. What a broke down State I live in. God what a place
California is.( And the Governor is blaming the power company
with having archaic above-ground power lines out of the 1950s
they never updated, that they were too greedy and cheap to
modernize and put underground, for causing the fires. )
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