Leads are dwindling.. sadly.. it seems that Jennifer.. gone a week.. isn’t going to turn up…. and if she does, I already fear the worse. It’s a sick sick shame what people do to innocent children just to “further” themselves in life..
So.. I’m doomed.. Between a dental appointment on September 11, and my gallbladder surgery.. which is scheduled.. -foreboding music inserted here- for September 13th! For those of you calender challenged folks.. yes, that IS a Friday..
So here’s what’s going to happen.. because I just love sharing with you.. that, and my day is going so miserabley slow and boring like.. all I have to share, are the horrors of what they are doing to me….
laparascopic cholecystectomy
laparascopic cholecystectomy is an operation involving removal of the gallbladder through two, half in in size incisions.. one in the umbilicus(belly button) and the other about three inches above the first. Two or three other small (quarter inch) incisions are also made under the rib cage. These incisions are used to introduce instuments into the abdomen to preform the operation.
Several specialized instruments are used for this operation. Carbon dioxide is instilled into the abdomen to distend ti so that a Laparoscope(telescope like instrument) with a camera attached can be inserted to visualize the gallballder and other internal organs. The image is prjected onto a video monitor and the surgeon does the operation by watching the television monitor. The gall bladder is dissected and cut away from its attachements to the liver and bile ducts using electrocautery instruments. Electrocautery insturments generate heat from an eletric current which your surgeon uses for cutting and coagulation(controlling bleeding). A clip applier has been specially designed for this operation. The clips are the same that are used during an open or conventional operation to remove the gall bladder. Four of more small metal(titanium) clips which are used instead of sutures are left inside the abdomen during and after the operations. These clips close off the opening of the gall bladder duct into the bile duct and sseal off small blood vessels going into the gallbladder. These clips do not dissolve but will not cause any future problems(ie.. i will not set off metal detectors).
