My intro

I am keeping this blog mostly for me. But for others who have gone or may go through this.

It started when I was a few months pregnant. I started getting pains in my chest that would literally take my breath away. The pressure was enough to put me on the floor. But it luckily only came a few times while I pregnant. I had the normal heartburn that comes along with pregnancy. It wasn't that big of a deal for me. After I had my daughter, that all changed. The pains got worse. They came more often. I decided after struggling with this for about a year that changes needed to be made. I lost 40 pounds in the course of a year, changes my eating habits for the most part, and became more active. Things calmed down pretty well.

Well the past few months, the pain has returned with no pattern in eating habits. Majority of my family members have had their gallbladder removed. All of the female adults except one. A little over a week ago I ended up in the er with pains that wouldn't go away. I knew deep down what it was. I told them that when I checked in and that was the first thing that they checked. Sure enough, I had gallbladder disease with gallstones, and severe pancreatitis. All my enzyme counts were all out of whack and were extremely high. The next step if I had not gone to the ER when I did, would have been my liver acting up. Then jaundice.

I was in the hospital for a few days. A week later I was back in having it removed. Today is the day I had it removed. The main purpose of this blog again is mostly for me to monitor things with how my body is going to change. I'm losing a body part that is in charge of breaking down the fat from the food that my body consumes.

I've lost 40 pounds. I guess this is for me and my journey down the "I hope I don't gain a crap load of weight" road. A lot of people have told me to be prepared. Food will effect me differently now.