For the past while, my family in Calgary has been sick. Both my sister and father were feeling under the weather with a flu. My mother was fine, but getting burnt out taking care of everyone. My sister got better, but my father would be feeling good one day and bad the next.
Yesterday took him to a doctor. That doctor sent him to emergency.
After a cat-scan and other tests, they determined he had an exploding gallbladder. He stayed overnight in the hospital while they figured out when they could do surgery.
Apparently that happened today. Very quickly. As near as I can tell, there was very little warning. My mother only got back to the hospital after the operation, which took ten minutes. Modern medicine is very good. I’m sure in the past it would have been a major event. Now I suspect they may not even cut the skin.
In any case things are going well. He is in pain, and we have to watch for infection, but I think the worst is over. Hopefully he will be back home before the weekend.