galling

i've emailed some of you this information in one form or another but couldn't be bothered working out how to say it again, so i've just cut and pasted (sorry!).

i had my ultrasound this morning, with lots of cold goo and someone prodding and poking my abdomen. it's never a good sign when, as soon as they put the imaging thing on your abdomen, the lab technician goes 'whoa'. she said that I had an unbelievable number of gall stones for someone so young - just lucky I guess. she had no idea what 'cholangitis' was ("we had to look it up in the book"), so i'm guessing it's not really your run-of-the-mill kind of condition. she did say that the gall bladder doesn't look inflamed, so i guess that's a good thing. she also said "I must say, you've got a really good attitude about it all" which makes me wonder whether i should be freaking out more. i choose not to.

the doctor also rang and said my latest blood test shows an improvement, so it looks like we're on the right track. hurrah! I am starting to feel a bit better so I think the antibiotics are helping, but I'm still pretty out of it. I have maybe a couple of 'good' hours, and then need to lie down again. i honestly thought i would be well enough to be at work this week, but the week's almost over and it doesn't look like i'm going to get there...