My Body's Not Suffering

As far as the blood work is concerned, I'm fine. The results came back clean so if I do have gallstones, they aren't adversely effecting my body at this time. Yeah!

Further Thoughts

My ultrasound is scheduled for next Tuesday and the GERD medicine has been helping. No severe pain...just a small aching every once in a while. The Mayo Clinic has a great article on gallstones. Most of the causes I've done most of my life. It's only recently I've turned my eating and exercise habits around. Overweight...check. Skipping breakfast...check. Low fiber/high cholesterol diet...check. Crash diet where more than 3 pounds a week was lost and consumed less than 800 calories a day...if we consider my senior year of high school when I had mono and I didn't eat or drink for a month...check. I actually think most of the damage might have been done during mono because I literally did nothing for a month. I barely ate or drank. Mom would occasionally get a Mountain Dew down me. I slept constantly. Introduction of estrogen in birth control pills and pregnancy...check and check. Thinking back, I used to get horrible pains while on the pill. I thought it was it was cramps because I'd never experience cramps before. I'd probably had attacks back then and not realized.

Oh well. We'll have to wait and see what the blood work and ultrasound say.

What's Up Doc?

After having some severe pain in my right upper quadrant the last couple of nights, I decided I needed to see my doctor to figure out what was going on. The pain reminded me of the pain that Jenn described when she'd had gall bladder attacks. Well, I was positive for the saying ouch when he pushed on it test, so he ordered blood work and an ultrasound. He also sent me home with some medicine for GERD which supposedly has a helpful side effect for gall bladders. We'll have to see how it turns out.

How Could This Be Legit?

Today I was shopping at an office supply store named for an office supply when I happened to notice what the person behind me in line was purchasing. He had in his possession two spindles of burnable CDs and numerous copies of the inside liner of a Tupac CD. Tell me...what could he legitimately be doing with those items? Anyone?

My Mother's Life

East Liverpool- Mary Elizabeth Morlan, 52, of County Airport Rd., passed away at 1:35 am, Friday, December 22, 2006 at the East Liverpool City Hospital following a lengthy illness.

Mrs. Morlan was born December 26, 1953 in Dayton, Ohio, a daughter of the late Mary (Simon) Hemmer and Robert Hemmer of Bainbridge, Ohio, and had lived in the area since 1977.

She worked as a freelance vertical market custom computer software designer and owned and operated Morlan Software from 1979 until 2006.

Mrs. Morlan was catholic by faith.

She is survived by her husband, Marcus L. Morlan, whom she married May 6, 1976; daughter, Jennifer L. Franks and her husband, Michael of Cincinnati; son, Robert M. Morlan of Youngstown; sister, Ruthanne Hemmer-Flottman of Kettering; brothers, Philip Hemmer and his wife, Nancy of College Station, Texas and Terrence Hemmer and his wife, Maggie of Glenn Dale, Maryland; grandson, Benjamin Douglas Franks; and many nieces, nephews, and cousins.

The family will receive friends from 7 pm until 9pm, Saturday, January 6, 2007 at the Eells-Leggett-Stauffer Funeral Home, Lisbon.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to the favorite charity of the donor’s choice.