amyth! I hope you're healing quickly and feeling good! Better, at least.

I have to say, I didn't even mind getting LDB'd this year, by a no-hate commercial. Those guys could really sing, and it was a worthy cause. No bad there.

I am feeling better! I stopped taking Percocet earlier today, and the pain is much more manageable. The nausea is gone, and I had some chicken noodle soup today, which was the first substantial food I've had in days, and I felt instantly stronger and better after having it. It didn't completely agree with me, but I was warned that my digestive tract might need a couple of weeks to adjust to not having a gallbladder anymore.

I'm still sleeping in my friend's recliner, because lying down flat is painful, but since I'm improving every day, sleeping in a bed is something that I can see as a possibility by tomorrow or the next day.

I also removed the anti-nausea patch last night because I didn't need it anymore, but also because I googled "scopolamine withdrawal" and scared the crap out of myself. That is a serious drug!! I'm pretty sure that I'm in the clear, withdrawal-wise, since it's been 24 hours, and I only wore the patch for a day, but I'm glad I took it off when I did.

so happy to hear that, amyth. Are you getting sufficient time off to recouperate?

Isn't scopolamine the "Zombie" Drug? You'll let us know if you start craving brains, right? (And give us a head start?)

Glad you're feeling better. {{ amyth }} (Gentle, non-squishing hug, plenty of breathing room).

amyth, I found that heavy dairy (cheese, ice cream) and grease (like french fries, etc.) were the thing I had to be careful with after I had my gall bladder removed. Ylack-of-GBMV. I'm glad you're feeling better!

Yay, SA! There's nothing like being done with finals.

Yes, definitely. I'm not scheduled to go back to work until the 21st, which is probably more time than I'll need. I answered an email that my student intern wrote yesterday, which my boss was cc'ed on, and my boss wrote me back, "I'm glad that you're feeling better. Stop working." So nobody is expecting anything from me, which is nice. Plus, this is the quietest time of year in our office. AND I covered the whole office this past summer when my boss was very sick, my co-worker N. stopped coming to work for a while, and all of my temps quit in a three-week period. So I feel really okay about relaxing.

Re: scopolamine. Yes. It is apparently the zombie drug AND routinely used as a transdermal patch for motion sickness and for nausea from anesthesia. Go figure! But if you read some people's accounts of their withdrawal from it (admittedly, many of those people were on it for longer, like a ten-day cruise or something, but STILL) it makes you wonder how doctors can be so cavalier and just slap one behind your ear. But it was also the only thing that stopped my barfing. But yeah, you can also Google some terrifying stories of scopolamine being used as the "zombie drug" which are truly scary.

That sounds like excellent progress in your recovery, a myth. Yay! And nice job on timing your medical emergency to a quiet time at work. That isn't easy to pull off.

Also yay for sleep and for being done with finals!

Good news, amyth!

The coasters are from the NatGeo catalog. Shopng.org, search coasters. Promised to deliver by Xmas if you order by the 14th. Just FYI, if you're all desperate like me. Got my dad thinkgeek's planet glasses since they weren't sold out this year.