I'd love to say I'm doing great. I have wanted so long to just be healthy and free, but each time I think there's no more surgeries in my future another thing comes out of left field. This time they think it's my Gal Bladder. I figured sooner or later I'd have an issue, due to our females in my family all having issues, but then I started to think I dodged that bullet by my habits. Not so fast I guess. I was having issues a few months ago, but chalked it up to Gluten intolerance issues. They went away with the dropping 9 pounds only to reoccur this week. I ate two pieces of fried chicken.... Not something I ever eat. I was at a party for football and that's what was available. I've been paying for that choice since Saturday with increasing intensity. It finally drove me to seek medical advice. At which time they told me likely GallBladder which is something my sister and best friend had already told me, but I was hopeful they were wrong. I find out if there are stones on Monday, but even if there are none, not with all the symptoms that I've had no idea may be gallbladder related for the last 20 years ---they will be checking the functioning next. Apparently, you can have NO stones and still be in trouble. So, Doc said more likely than not it's going to require surgery. The good news is that since my bowels have needed an act of congress to move all these years...likely due to low functioning gallbladder, my problems in that area should go away and I should have a normally functioning Bowel for the first time in 20 years. (Dr's best guess) The thing my Doctors have ignored all these years is when I tell them that things like fiber don't work for me at all....It turns to rocks. That should have been the first clue to check my GallBladder, but since when it all started I was young and quite thin they never even considered it. I'm in a funk..... I've had three surgeries since starting with the State nearly 3 years ago, and the first one was a year after starting. It's where all my sick and vacation time has gone. Now after finally getting a bit of time accumulated I'm told I'll need at least two weeks off....which HELLO is just shy of what I've accumulated. GRRHHHHHH Can't change what I can't control but I really need a REAL vacation. However, there are those without coverage or sick and vacation time, so I'll stop whinning now. This will make 14 surgeries in 6 years, but who's counting. I'm worried it will compound my wieght loss struggles.