#no gallbladder

[lovelyreviews1]

  I am sick. I feel like I am not being listened to or heard. I keep explaining everything including how I feel but its like it does not matter. I went to multiple different doctors for diagnoses but its like what is the point of it? I feel like they are not listening nor are trying to help me. They keep pushing medications after medications and it is not helping only making it worst. I have chronic pancreatitis  that flares up occasionally and I have fatty liver disease. 

The hospital would not do anything for my pancreas. They gave me IV and nausea medications and sent me home. I have been taking Physicians Choice Digestive enzymes and  OX bile and it seems to be helping break down the foods that my body cannot due to a missing gallbladder that I had to get out. It also

is not causing pain as bad in my pancreas and I am less bloated than I was.

My liver and pancreas took over and was doing all the work and no one told me that it was going to be harder for the body. No one explained anything to me and it took me until now since I have a medical knowledge and went to college for parts of it that it is going to cause this. 

I spent 3 years suffering with pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and I am still suffering with the pain trying to get it diagnosed but its like everywhere I go, no one is listening and is only making assumptions and playing a guessing game so I decided to self treat.  

[ajanefantasy]

Ugh. Getting blood drawn today and can't eat until afterwards. I hate this part of life.

[alexisrosemullens]

I ate something that completely destroyed my stomach and just eating rice for dinner to calm it.

[slavhew]

And I just have to tell you that I

Love you so much these days,

[kaijuno]

Oh shit can I get like a few bucks for some easy on the stomach foods bc I have like… nothing I can keep down and idk man yogurt sounds good af right now

[mispatchedgreens]

like knows like//two unlike things, day 7 of @radiantemperorweek

whatever they are, they're forever. recommended listening: 'your liver is my drum machine, my clavicle your e chord'

[bamsara]

It's the kind of exhaustion where I just tried to slide my card in my car's gas filler hole instead of the pump to pay for gas and stood there for 10 seconds wondering why it's not working

[lokidanger]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Someone asked me if I was the guy whose gallbladder was in his hand.

[memendoemori]

My current Old Man Yells At Cloud moment is that I do in fact think Panera's Lemonade That Allegedly Kills People was irresponsibly advertised. The fact that I could get as many Lemonades That Allegedly Kill People from a bubbler as I wanted when 30 ounces of it had nearly your daily amount of caffeine in it was utterly insane

[zandraart]

Glad to hear you’re alright! Everything going okay?

lol hi thank u! i had to get an organ removed because it was making rocks/stones like an oyster and almost killed me lol. still working on feeling better but ill be alright i refuse to perish because my body went full oyster mode

[vvitchy-succubus]

Obligatory hospital selfie, guess who has to have their gallbladder removed! I hate hospitals and doctors and sleepy time drugs so wish me luck!

[bonefall]

How would the cats get rid of the bile to prepare a prey item for food? The liver is one of the best items to use for gravy--my family uses our roasted Turkey's liver as a gravy base every year and to have to throw it out cause someone fucked up while on kitchen duty would suck.

Not all animals will actually have gallbladders, but removing one from the liver is as easy as just chopping it off when you get to the processing part. It'll be down on the bottom of the liver, usually pear-shaped, and a dark greenish color. Sorreltail, a sapient cat with her great sense of smell, could tell it apart from the surrounding meat with her eyes closed.

I do have to stress, though, you CAN eat bile. You don't have to have the cats toss that, that is a thing they can eat. Again it's not nail polish remover like the Erins think it is. It's bitter, but it's used in human food. You just balance out the bitterness with spice and sweetness.

This is papaitan, from the Philippines, made with tripe and bile,

Bile is also said to have anti-inflammatory effects and be a generally healthy food, too. I can see ShadowClan in particular really liking to cook with this, especially for a sick cat. They like bitter and spicy tastes a lot more than other Clans. Their version of chicken noodle soup.

Also; a lot of animals do not have gallbladders. Here's a short list of common prey animals and their gallbladder status;

Rabbits = No

Rats = No

Mouse = Yes

Shrew = Yes

Deer = No

Pigeon = No

Quail = Yes

Carp = Yes BUT DO NOT EAT THESE CARP GALL BLADDERS CAUSE FOOD POISONING. ALL species, everywhere. This includes goldfish. Your cat will live if they swallow a goldfish or eat a gallbladder once or twice, but it will make them sick. Process this fish before a Clan cat eats it.

(Side note: It's actually kind of funny how carp keeps coming up as The "Fuck You" Animal in all of these. They're full of seizure-causing anti-nutrients, their gallbladders are poison, what am I going to find next?)

The gallbladder in fish is really easy to find btw, they're usually massive, round, and dark green. If you gut fish regularly it's like... right in the "chest." Also you can poke it open and soak little paper squares in it and then they spin around in water, it's very cool

Bile is for the breakdown of fats, and a gallbladder is for the storage and concentration of bile. Generally, herbivores are more likely to lack gallbladders, because their liver just dumps the weak bile they have directly into their intestines. The mystery of why rats don't have gallbladders has actually vexxed scientists for like 100 years, btw.

Some herbivores (deer especially) have a very tiny "pouch" for bile called a diverticulum. But unlike the gallbladder, it doesn't concentrate it, just stores a little extra. Some hunters will nick this and think they tore open a gallbladder, but they did not.

[kaijuno]

I’ve lost 20lbs in like 4 days uhhhh yay?

[blitzy-blitzwing]

I feel invincible!!! 💪😤

[fleshwizard]

Gallbladder (buds and gallstones)

Examples of gallstones under the cut, based on observation :

Gallbladders are my favorite organs to dissect because you'll v-never know what you will find when you open it (and i've put the wrong color for the biggest gallstone oops)