I can't believe the "gall" of him...

Well, Zac is ending today with one less bodily organ. After several more trips to the ER and Urgent Care, they finally decided to do surgery today to see what what going on in Zac's abdomen.

Going into surgery, the surgeon was 95% sure it was Zac's gallbladder even though all his tests kept coming back normal. Sure enough, his gallbladder was badly infected. She took pictures (which I'll spare you) of his infected gallbladder. Egads! She also did a little "exploring" while she was in his abdomen and she didn't see anything else that could have been causing all Zac's pain. So, hopefully the gallbladder was the cause of everything.

Surgery started VERY early this morning.

The medication to help Zac relax before surgery was working quite good. Notice the extreme smirk on his face. He was acting pretty sassy and had all the nurses laughing.

Of course they put the leg compressors on Zac for surgery. He hadn't ever seen them before... and he wasn't real fond of them. (On a side note, I keep teasing Zac that he looks like he's laying on a pee pad in this picture. It really was a blanket... but nonetheless, I think he looks like they're prepping him for "accidents")

In this picture of Zac as he's getting ready to leave for surgery, you can really see how distended and swollen his belly is. He looks 9 months pregnant with twins. Poor guy...

They kept me updated as to Zac progress in the O.R. with this cool pager. It each stage of the surgery they would send me a message. I thought it was super cool and it helped keep me calm. What great new technology!

Here's the patient after surgery. He's already starting to look better.

He had ice packs on his stomach for the swelling and pain after surgery... but he says the pain from his incisions is MUCH better than the pain he was having before surgery.

Here's Zac this afternoon. Look at how much smaller his stomach is already! I hope his recovery is quick.

Anyone who knows Zac will enjoy this story. Zac's pretty modest... so when they told him he'd have to take off all his clothes for surgery... including his underwear... he was a little panicked. He kept asking me questions like, "do you think they look at men's "packages" when they're under anesthesia?" I told him I doubted it but he was fixated on the topic. So, after surgery when he was in recovery he was pretty doped up. Alot of what he was saying didn't make much sense. But out of nowhere he decided to try and make sense. He stated very loudly "the anesthesiologist admired my "package" and the doctor was intimidated by it." OMG. I could have died laughing. I doubt very much they even looked at his "package" but in his mind he's the fricken rock star of the hospital. He'll die of embarrassment when I remind him of what he said tomorrow when he's more with it. :)