So I’m standing by my car at the Hospital having a cigarette outside in the parking lot. There’s no smoking on Hospital property.
A woman comes up to me and it goes like this…
Woman: “Sir. You aren’t allowed to smoke here.”
Me: "My daughter is in surgery. Her life is on the line. I don’t give a f*ck.
Woman: “Oh.”
Then she sheepishly walked away.
I could have gotten a hundred ticket violations for smoking a cigarette on Hospital property and I wouldn’t have given a damn at that moment.
Is she well now?
Thanks for asking, @Andrey
My daughter is slowly coming back. She was on an IV for about 2 weeks and she’s lost a lot of weight.
She had her gall bladder removed. It was very dicey there for a while as her liver and pancreas were inflamed…which can be fatal like the doctor told us.
She’s resting at home now with us, and I’m continually plying her with food and liquids to get her weight back up.
It really is a miracle that she is still with us. The doctor told us an older, more frail person would not have survived.
Oh goodness, that’s so scary. I’m glad she’s recovering. I hope it continues.
How are you holding up? That must have been incredibly stressful. are your meds holding up to it?
@anon39054230 Hugs to you and your family from Jimmy and I. I was thinking about you the other day wondering how your daughter is doing.
Take care. 
I lost about 10 pounds through stress, but never went psychotic.
Work advanced me vacation leave for 3 weeks to look after my girl.
But I think we’ve finally turned the corner. Thanks to all of you for the kind words and support during this harrowing time. 
And the surgeon who removed her gall bladder told me that in all of his years, he’s never seen that many stones in a gall bladder for someone her age.
One stone was the size of a 50 cent piece…embedded into the bladder. He had to make an extra wide incision to remove it.
Doctors are baffled as to the reason for this. But both her grandmothers had their gall bladders removed, so there may be a genetic component to this as well.
Mom and grandma both had their gall bladder removed. When I last did an echo, some years back, I was clean. But who knows…
Glad the surgery went well and your daughter is ok
I’m so sorry you and your daughter went through this. And I’m really glad she’s getting better
I am glad things are looking up. Best wishes. 
I’m having serious issues with my Father. He kept telling me I needed to return to work…that I had taken enough time off.
If I listened to him, my daughter would be dead. I was home when she started vomiting…raced her to Emergency where she threw up bile, blood and a dark green liquid.
I saved her life twice during the past 2 weeks. My Dad is from that generation where you don’t miss work. I’m just glad I trusted my own instincts and stayed home last week.
good job on listening to your own instincts! Must have been really scary…
ah and that convo was kinda funny… but i know you were feeling bad. I understand why you reacted the way you did.
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