Trading Tuesday #1 – Random Rant

So there is no guest post this week because no one has submitted one. If you would like to submit one, please email me at DRC@waxingplatitudinous.com. Include a picture, short bio and a post of any subject that is around 500 words. 

This weeks Random Rant is about the need for a gallbladder. Unless you have had gallbladder trouble or had one removed, you have no idea what I’m talking about. Your life moves along as though nothing is out of the ordinary. Then one day, you have excruciating pain in several various locations. It doesn’t go away and get’s bad after you eat. Since you have never known anyone that has had gallbladder pain, you have no idea what it is. Four years later, it’s getting bad enough that you figure that you better go and do something about it.

The doctor orders a bunch of tests that show you have a non-working gallbladder. Like it has no detectable  function whatsoever. That’s why it hurts like hell every time you try to eat the fake eggs they give you at Village Inn. The doctor assures you that you can lead a completely normal life without the gallbladder and that you will feel much better after the surgery. You believe him.

What he doesn’t tell you is that without a gallbladder, you have no other natural system for regulating the flow of bile out of the liver. So each time you walk downstairs and smell your dear wife cooking a fat filled breakfast of sausage and eggs, you have to run for the bathroom because here comes that rush of bile.

Note, you haven’t eaten anything yet, its just the smell. Other times include when the co-worker has that delicious, spicy curry for lunch at her desk or you drive by that great hamburger place and can smell the burgers cooking. Quick, you better find a place to pull over because you have about 1.2 seconds before your bowels release.

The worst is when there are foods that you cannot live without. My personal addition is Spitz Cracked Pepper sunflower seeds. Oh they are so good, but its another lack of gallbladder attack after another.

So if the doctor tells you that you need to have your gallbladder out, by a box of Depends.

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