Don't Kill The Cow Too Quick - Bocas Bits & Pieces

Last month I had my gall bladder yanked out at the Mae Lewis Clinc.   Before the doctor
told me there was something wrong inside my vesicular biliar, I had not known where this
organ lived, let alone the Spanish word for it.

I say “yanked out” because that is what they do these days. The surgeon drills four holes
in your tummy, one of which is through your belly button. Through these he manipulates
knives and scissors to separate the GB from the where it is hung on the side of the liver.
Having made the separation, he grips the top of the GB and hauls it up and out through
your belly button. I know because I have watched the replay on video.

I was in hospital for 30 hours total. The first six hours nothing happened. They just
wanted to be sure I did not have a beer or hamburger before they worked on me. The
video shows the op took twenty minutes. The rest was recovery time.   The following
morning, I walked out and drove myself home.

The nurses were terrific.   Response time to my pressing my call bell was never more
than a minute.   They smiled (In the Florida hospital where I spent a month recuperating
from an infection, the nurses were not permitted to waste time and energy smiling, let
alone fractionizing with patients).

The Mae Lewis nurses were so friendly they felt like primas (cousins) by the time of my
leaving. The farewell breakfast of porridge, papaya, omelet etc was equal to Hotel
Nacional. We exchanged gifts. I gave them a box of chocolates and they gave me the
video to keep.

I am sure I will be back to Mae Lewis when other parts need repair or removing.    Oh!
one last thing, I never did like my old belly button. It had an unsightly mole on it. Now I
have a perfect button equal to Hollywood’s best and at no extra charge.