Guess how I spent New Years? Go ahead, guess!

In the hospital! I'm almost wondering if my discomfort and back pain from right before Christmas was my first warning sign.

Anyhow, you might be wondering WHY I spent New Years (and a couple days on either side of it hospitalized. The answer is pretty simple.

My gall bladder tried to kill me. Literally. Turns out I had gall stones. Painful little beasties they are, but also, as it turns out, potentially dangerous and deadly. What happened, is in the process of one trying to pass through my system, it got itself stuck in the duct shared by the gall bladder and pancreas. This caused the bile being made by my pancreas to back up back into the pancreas. Which made it start to try to digest itself. Ouch... Which ALSO made it become severely infected. Which also made the enzymes levels in my liver all wonky. And made my kidneys struggle. And got my heart beat all irregular. And quite literally could have killed me had I not caught it quickly enough.

Luckily, I did. Micah was planning to come by to pick up some things he needed that were still at my house. I was feeling rather unwell and it just kept getting worse. I finally realized something was WRONG. So I called him and asked him if he would drive me to the ER when he got there. because I was in too much pain to drive. Took a while, because the roads were crap, but he got there and helped me load up the baby and drove me to the ER. After many tests, they figured out what was wrong and admitted me.

They spent several days pumping me full of antibiotics, pain killers, fluids, and shots to the belly to prevent blood clots. After a few days of this, my other organs were back under control enough that they were able to go in and removed my gall bladder.

Still having to watch things closely, and have spent a couple days with my mom, she's helping me while I heal. Luckily, Micah has been able to keep the baby while I try to recover. Hopefully in the next day or 2 I should be okay enough to go home and have my baby back.