Last night I woke at 3:00 a.m. with a sharp pain in my stomach. I've been having these pains since Manny's pregnancy, so I wasn't too concerned. I walked to the kitchen, and did what I normally do when these pains occur...I got something to eat and drink; nothing happened. I took some Tums and the pain lessened, but I was still uncomfortable. After nursing Christian at 4:00 a.m., and I went to bed.

I woke up with Manny at 8:00 a.m., and I felt like I was going to keel over (the pain was so intense). I tried Tums again, nothing happened. I drove to Target, and bought some Maalox...nothing. I tried eating, drinking, laying down, nothing was working, in fact, the pain was getting worse!

At noon I decided to suck it up and go to the emergency room. Even if it was nothing serious, the docs would give me some good drugs until I could see a physician on Monday. So, we left Manny with Jen and EJ, and headed to the ER, minutes after we arrived I ran to the bathroom to hurl. At this point my pain level was at a TEN! I was literally in tears during registration.

So to make a long story short, they ran some blood work, and gave me an ultra-sound to look at all of my organs. It turns out I have gull stones! What am I, 80 years old? I thought only old people could get these!

I have two options: 1) try to control the gull stones with a low fat diet, or 2) have my gull bladder taken out. The doc told me I would need to have it removed eventually, it was just up to me when it was done.

To be honest, the main reason I don't want to have the surgery done soon, is b/c I'm breastfeeding Christian. I've come so far, and worked so hard to make it work this time, I don't want anything to jeopardize it. I'm afraid that the surgery, and medication that they'd put me on would decrease my milk supply (as well as contaminate my breast milk). Plus, Christian would be feeding off of a bottle for however long I would be in the hospital, and I'm afraid he wouldn't want to latch after I get home.


At this point I don't know what to do. I was given a prescription for some pain medication, so at this point I'm just playing everything by ear. If the pain goes away (which it has before), I'll probably just leave it on the back burner until it becomes a problem again.