serendipity8791 | As it turned out...

My stepfather's gallbladder removal surgery went really well. They were able to do it without having to open him up (he has massive scar tissue from two major abdominal surgeries in his early 40s and that may have been a problem for surgery, but all went super!), and he's home and resting, mildly nauseated from hunger and side-effects of anesthesia and high on Dilaudid.

I've been betting my mother he's going to feel like a million bucks once he's over the surgery, because he's been having the same alarming symptoms as one of my friends' father when his was really bad, and it mimicked heart-attack symptoms (chest pain, shortness of breath), and other things. I mean he even had a bad day last weekend while we were there, and vomited twice in the 30 minutes following supper.