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Hospitals are filthy.

I was in the hospital overnight at the end of August this year. I had to have my gallbladder taken out after 2 severe pain level 10 gallbladder attacks within 10 days before surgery.

The toilet paper in the hospital room bathroom was nasty. (It was a 2 room shared bathroom) It looked like it had sat in some form of nasty liquid and had dried out. I removed it and put a fresh roll on the holder and I took the nasty roll to the nurses station. (I should have kept it and sent it to the head of the hospital after got out of the hospital).

Then after surgery and after I was put back in my room, I vomited due to being knocked out for surgery and I barely made it to the toilet to vomit. It ended up all over the toilet seat. I called the nurse to have someone clean it up after I had cleaned it up with some form bath wipes that were in the bathroom. But it needed a full sterile cleaning from the cleaning staff. I was there in the room awake for at least 3 hours before I was released to go home and not a single person came in and sterilized the toilet. I cleaned it again with what I had before I left the room since it was shared bathroom and there was patient in the room next to mine.

I was happy to be released from the hospital within 5 hours after I had my gallbladder removal surgery.

I had to stay in the hospital the night before surgery because my second gallbladder attack sent me back to the ER the day before I had surgery. They admitted me straight from the ER and they did the CT scans the day before surgery while I was admitted. They thought I had a stones stuck in my lower common duct due to the level of pain I had and the location of the pain I was having. Most of my pain was in the front, from my pelvis to my diaphragm. My liver enzymes were way off the charts - over 200 and I don't drink alcohol or nor do I have hepatitis. The CT scans was also to make sure I did not have any tumors in my Liver. My liver enzymes were off the charts because I had stones stuck in my duct in the days before my surgery but I had passed them when I had my two pain level 10 attacks. I felt them pass through me when they finally dislodged from the duct and it felt like a hot fireball (or a lit firecracker) rolling through me until they hit my smaller intestine. Each time they would through my duct all my pain would instantly and fully go away.

After they took out my gallbladder they found over two hundred BB sized gallstones. (just the right size for them to move out of the gallbladder but get stuck in my duct). The surgery was a breeze for me and I was moving around at full speed within 2 days, but I made sure not to over do it for about 7 days after surgery.