By the Grace of God

It's been a while since I've visited and wrote in here.  It was a long winter, in fact.  I had suffered excruciating abdominal pains last October and visited the doctor.  He sent me to the hospital for some scans and discovered I had gallstones, which then explained the cause and reason for a number of my digestion and abdominal problems. 

I had what was to be outpaitent surgery Jan 5th.  I woke in the ICU some hours later, and learned they had to open me up instead of removing the gall bladder through a small "keyhole".  It had a lot of scar tissue and adhesions, and was actually not functioning very well, except to pass a small grain of stone from time to time along with bile.  The post surgery pain was incredible, as I never had surgery in my 45 years of life.  Thanks to prayers, I was out of the ICU the next morning and home 3 days after the surgery.

I'm now doing a lot better and trying to follow a diet plan to reduce my cholesterol, which was what those gallstones were made up of.  If my lipid profile doesn't show a significant reduction of cholesterol by June, I will have to go on medication, in addition to my HPB meds. 

I know I'm now middle aged, and not a spring chicken anymore, as my wife reminds me, but I still think I'm a young man!  Thanks for praying for me everyone.