gallbladder, be gone!

dr. c confirmed what i kind of knew all along. my gallbladder needs to be removed. he feels that it is becoming inflammed and then continues to be inflammed until i have the gallbladder attacks. i told him the pain i'm feeling across my stomach and my right side is intermittent, some days worse than others. i have an appt with dr. s next friday to discuss surgery.

now, comes the real dilemna with all this. we're in the process of moving to a new budgeting system. the system is not quite ready even tho the consultants have been feverishly working into the wee hours of the night. i'm really starting to feel bad for those guys. they are trying and trying, but things are not falling in their favor for the most part.

anyway, the original plan was for me to conduct end-user training in august after we finish july close. the training would run for 3 consecutive weeks via web training with the official budget season opening after august close. so if we stay on this track, i'm looking at nearest dates for surgery are in september. i also want to have the knee surgery this year if i can. the sooner i get the gallbladder taken care of, the sooner i can get the knee taken care of....

alternate plan....if by some chance they see that we are not going to the new system, then i want to have the surgery asap. i would be able to be back in the office for the normal refresher training in sept like we've had in the past. then i could definitely schedule the knee surgery in nov or dec.

i told my boss that i really need an answer about how things were going to go so i could plan this. she and my big boss are in agreement that i need to take care of my health issues. i just don't like the fact that i may not be able to do my job and i hope it wouldn't interfere with me keeping my job....enough about this b/c i'm starting to stress and it makes my stomach hurt.

oh, and i have to have another endoscopy to dialate my throat. apparently i shouldn't be experiencing any issues with swallowing since the first one and i have been. upside is i will have a nice nap afterwards! lol...got to look at the bright side, right?

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on the knitting front, i finished up the jellyfish shrug by iris g. janelle liked it a lot. i can hardly wait to see it on her with one of her dresses. she asked me to make her another one but not with a lacy pattern. i'm combining some elements that i've learned from a couple of patterns and trying to make her another one. she likes how stockinette stitch looks, so it's basically going to be that. i wrote out the pattern and it's very elementary...lol. i know that true pattern designers would probably have a fit if they saw how i wrote it out. i wish i was comfortable enough to write the neat, concise patterns. i'm going to try and make notes as i go so i can condense it and make it cleaner looking.

well, i'm going to go now. i'm glad tomorrow is friday. i know i'm going to be tired by the end of the day b/c i will be adding new accounts in the system. i'll be lucky if i'm not cross-eyed by the time it's all said and done!

kisses........