There's not enough bitching

[Dracos]

Shitty person. :(

[Brian]

Nothing sucks worse than having your glasses messed up. :x

[Yuthirin]

It's a zillion degrees out and I'm fat.

[thepanda]

My grandfather died yesterday. So this weekend I need to drive up to Kansas City and attend the funeral. Looks like I'll be kicking off my b-day vacation with dead and the consoling of family members. With no internet connection. And I suck at consolation.

These one-two shots to my bank account. . .

[Brian]

D:

Well, if a rare opportunity arises for me to be a bro, I should take it; things are going well enough for me I may be able to help you out if things get really bad.  Lemme know. :x

In the meantime, I still hope for the best for you.

[Brian]

It's not food poisoning.  It's gall bladder attacks.

Evidently, every so often, my gall bladder will fritz out and decide that I cannot digest everything I've eaten in the last X hours.  As Drac can unfortunately testify, this is about 5.4 gadzillion more times uncomfortable than it sounds (and it sounds pretty damn uncomfortable).

I wouldn't call it agony.  Consider it to be hours of the most intense discomfort imaginable (and throw in enough retching to tear abdomnial muscles).

Kicked in right at the end of a lunch meeting, too ... good thing my old man could drive me home; I sure couldn't make it. -_-

[Jon]

Well, at least you know what it is now?

Ugh.

[Dracos]

Can you do anything to prevent/cure alleviate?

[Brian]

Yeah.  I have to change my diet.

Some fats are very dangerous for me, and if I cut them out, I will become completely intolerant.  For best overall health, I must constantly edge the line between safety and misery.

Bleah.  So, I will be drinking a spoon full of vinegar before every meal, carrying a small supply of magnesium pills, and so on.  In an ideal situation, I can dose myself as soon as I feel an attack come on, and it may only last a few minutes or half an hour.

Which is a real improvement.

Being made to drink a cup of apple juice mixed with three tablespoons of apple cider vinegar....

There's a whole list of things I need to avoid/be cautious of, chief among them: Anything fried, and red meat. 
For example, eggs are supposed to be horrible for me, but it turns out that as long as they're made with no fat (egg whites only, and no butter or grease), then they're fine.  Of course, plain egg whites on plain toast is still kinda meh....

There's a thought that my decision several years ago to avoid red meats actually _caused_ this....  So.  I have to learn to love beets, vinegar, and flax oil (never to be used for cooking).  Gotta watch anything with a lot of acidity.

Having my gallbladder removed changes it from a problem of variable intensity/duration, to something constant but significantly less intense (as well as having to remove pretty much all fats from my diet forever).  Of course, I don't have insurance anyway, so that's moot.

[Dracos]

Terrifying.  Absolutely terrifying.

[Jon]

I found a charge on my credit card for some cosmetics company in Hong Kong. I'm pretty sure I've never ordered anything like that. The card is only two months old...

And it's being cancelled; they're sending me a new one, which does inconvenience me a bit, since I have to change all my automatic billing to the new one.

This has cast a pall over my afternoon.

[Dracos]

Spilled some water over my nice keyboard.  Now have a chintzy replacement model.  Sigh.

[Brian]

Suffered a seven hour attack, which I am just now recovering from.

Why is HUMMUS so oily? >_<

It's now OFF THE LIST!

[Anastasia]

What can you eat now, anyway?

[Yuthirin]

Avoiding oils? Not a whole lot. Raw vegetables?