Im coming back... FOR REVENGE!
Added 2025-11-01 22:37:58 +0000 UTCHeyo everyone.
Im doing better!
Well ok I did have a setback. Accidentally pulled bile drain (it's been clamped off for months) out of my chest in an act of buffoonery. A hole in your chest leaking your liver-goo is bad so I had to go back to the hospital.
Spent 12 hours in an exam room in Emergency, then had the second most painful procedure of my life to get a new catheter and drain installed in my chest. Seriously, it's horrible. "Screaming Pain" level.
I was kept overnight for observation but this new drain, or maybe the IR (Interventional Radiology, had never heard of IR before all this) Doctor was way better, but I have no horrible pain in my chest or endless burning guts.
The actual drain, the tubing and bag, were removed before they let me go. Giving me less to accidentally yank.
I have a little plastic dongle hanging from me now. Not fixed yet however. Catheter in my chest is bypassing a leak where my gall bladder used to be that I have to flush with saline twice a day. Docs are debating what to do for a more permanent solution.
Feeling good though. I... I might be back sooner than I thought.
Alternate-Rat says we need more paws for the red furry paw thing that he's been pawing for me... Posting.
Dont read into that.
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Oh It was a whole thing. Im still going to post the whole novel here but short version is: My g-bladder and common bile duct were torn apart by several LARGE gallstones (its got a whole syndrome name and everything) causing it to dump bile on my intestines turning me into a vomit machine. The docs were unable to handle it with endoscopy so they sliced me open like a cantaloupe (i have a scar from my side to my midsection now) and are still trying to find a way to resolve bile leaking. Drain was serving as a bypass, so yeah, it's stuck right at the base of my sternum and into common duct. I had two JP drains on my side after the surgery, one tubed into gall-space to suck out possible infection, and the other tubed on top of my liver to keep fluid from compressing my right lung. Those never sucked out much however so when the tubes worked their way out, the surgeons literally said "feh, we'll put bandaids on em". I was a mess.
Blackrat
2025-11-02 10:20:14 +0000 UTC"A hole in your chest [...] Is bad" Indeed it is, what an astute analysis.
mig-31
2025-11-02 07:46:36 +0000 UTCSo, was the Gallbladder removed and this catheter is draining the bile from your liver to prevent infection? I’m assuming that would be the most likely case if so, but why would they place a tube in your chest? I feel like that would be a bad spot for it unless there was a specific reason for its placement.
Avian
2025-11-02 04:27:48 +0000 UTC
