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Thanks. It was hard losing her when I was 16. However, I am thankful it is being caught sooner as in your case.

My main reason for posting her situation is that I hope to bring attention to it so people will do like you did and not just lay back until it advances beyond repair.

I was lucky. I had a milkshake late one night and within 30 minutes I had great pain in my side and under the right shoulder blade. I called a friend whose wife immediately said "that's your gallbladder. We are driving you to the doctor right now. Be there in a few minutes." When they tests were done, I found myself headed to a 7 am surgery to remove mine which was completely calcified. My mother, like mojo84's was not so lucky. One week after my high school graduation she passed away from cancer. Being from a small Texas town, the doctors had never figured it out. The gallbladder had been ignored.

Anygunanywhere, thank you for this post. It may help someone else.

Speedy recovery!

I will relate a gall bladder story to educate what can happen.

A 40 year old friend wasn't feeling well. Symptoms seemed to be indesgestion and pain in stomach area.
On a Sunday, complained to wife. Finally wife tired of it and said let's go to the ER.
ER checked him over did not find a thing, said indesgestion, it will go away on its own.

Tuesday morning he was still complaining. Wife did not want to go back to the ER again so got him an afternoon appointment with his GP. GP took one look at him and called for an ambulance.

He nearly died.

A gall stone had tried to pass and had gotten stuck in the bile duct passing through the pancreas. The whole area got inflamed. He was in ICU for two weeks another month in the hospital and two months at home.

He is a diabetic now, his pancreas is distroyed. They saved his kidneys or he would be probably be dead by now.

I didn't know you can pass gall stones. Now I know.

sugar land dave wrote:I was lucky. I had a milkshake late one night and within 30 minutes I had great pain in my side and under the right shoulder blade. I called a friend whose wife immediately said "that's your gallbladder. We are driving you to the doctor right now. Be there in a few minutes." When they tests were done, I found myself headed to a 7 am surgery to remove mine which was completely calcified. My mother, like mojo84's was not so lucky. One week after my high school graduation she passed away from cancer. Being from a small Texas town, the doctors had never figured it out. The gallbladder had been ignored.

Anygunanywhere, thank you for this post. It may help someone else.

My condolences to you too SLD.

This disease is more prevalent in women than men.