"George Leppla" > wrote in message
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> I am glad you got to it early enough that you didn't have major
> complications. I'm guessing they did it laproscopically... a vast
> improvement over the old open method.

I had mine done a long time ago and it was the old open method. Recovery
took much longer then. Much quicker now with less complications.

> One hint... while you can eat anything you want, avoid eating a lot of fat
> for a while. Your gall bladder acts as a metering device, adding bile to
> your digestive stream in measured amounts to help digest fat. When it is
> gone, when you eat fat, that triggers the liver to make bile which is then
> dumped into your digestive stream all at once. That much bile will
> irritate your intestines and they will flood with liquid to dilute the
> irritation... and you may well experience explosive, urgent diarrhea.
>
> Not fun and kind of scary if you don't know why it is happening. Two
> weeks after my gall bladder surgery I had a wonderful dinner of fried
> chicken, french fries... you get the idea. What happened about 30 minutes
> later was almost legendary.

lol BTDT
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