One year ago today I was admitted to hospital. Lying on the couch in my family doctor's surgery, with the hiss of the oyxgen mask that had been placed on my face, and listening to her make an emergency call for an ambulance was a scary experience. So began a two month break from work with four weeks in hospital and some really painful surgical procedures. One year later I'm fit and healthy and all that is a distant memory.
What is interesting though is the number of hits my original blog post
still gets. Checking my Sitemeter statistics, it seems like half the
hits on my blog are people searching Google for information on gall
bladders, gallstones, bile, peritonitis and abdominal pain; and frankly
I'm surprised that my blog entry scores in the top ten of so many of
those searches. I do hope that people take it for what it is, a
personal account of a medical "adventure" and don't look on it as some
definitive work on gastrointestinal surgery. My medical expertise is
limited to watching episodes of "House" and playing the odd game
of doctors and nurses! If anyone does read my original post then I hope
that whatever symptoms they are suffering are soon resolved and maybe
this new post will reassure them that a year later their current
problems will be all but forgotten.
