Possibly faulty gall bladder

Haven’t been good with taking pictures lately, or posting updates for that matter. A lot of it has to do with how busy we’ve been. I’m trying to be better.

Today I went and had the HIDA (I’ve been spelling it Hydascan all this time, oops!) scan done. It was pretty bad. They started an IV (first try! I wanted to kiss the poor girl! I told her I wanted her number so I could call her any time I ever needed an IV in the future) and injected something into it to make my gall bladder fill. Once it was full, she injected something else into my IV to make the gall bladder start contracting and to empty. Almost instantly the horrible abdominal cramping and nausea started and it lasted a good 5 minutes. I was laying there, trying to breathe through the pain but she told me not to breathe so heavily as it would cause my gall bladder to move on the screen. Ugh!! I’m sooo glad it’s over. I am hoping to hear from my doctor by tomorrow about what the results are and whether or not I’m going to need the surgery.

I went online to the hospital I had Zoey in to check my balance and I found that it looks like this little munchkin is going to end up costing me about $2,600. I’m still paying on my knee surgery (though not a whole lot left) and if I end up having this gall bladder deal done, that will be one more surgery to add to the list. Ugh.

Right now I am just going through the motions. Trying to get back to normal, whatever that is. Our time with Zoey is going sooo quickly. It seems like just yesterday we were driving home from the hospital and here we are, in disbelief that she is 6 weeks old.

She definitely has her fussy periods and they seem to be mostly in the evenings. I think a lot of the time it goes on for so long is because we are trying to guess what exactly it is she is crying about. We have most of her cries figured out but sometimes she changes is up on us. When we think it’s her boredom cry, she’ll end up just needing a diaper change so it takes us a bit to figure that out. Like Gene once said, we need a newborn flow chart so that we know exactly what step to try/take next.

I’ll let everyone know how my test results are as soon as I find out. And I’ll try to take more photos and start posting more again. It seems like these newborn baby days go by so quickly. I hardly have time to go pee, eat or drink. I’m not even breastfeeding either. I think the key to getting more done is hiding my darn laptop. Every time I get a few minutes, I end up on this stupid thing and waste an hour on here.