awake again

I'm the other side of my ERCP. I had a sphincterotomy (cutting a sphincter muscle to enlarge it a little - and no... not that sphincter!), and a gall stone removed, that was blocking my biliary duct. When I had the cholecystectomy, the surgeon was unable to perform a cholangiogram (looking inside the bile duct), because the duct was so short. Everything looked OK from the outside, and the risk of damaging something by trying to force his way inside the duct was relatively large, he elected not to do that. Unfortunately, it seems this missed a small gall stone, which moved sometime on Wednesday, and gave me some pretty excrutiating pain for half an hour or so. This then blocked the duct, which meant the bile backed up and ended up in my urine, hence the dark colour.

I'm currently on nil-by-mouth until tomorrow, but I'm able to have visitors. Once again if you don't have current contact details for me, drop me an email at **mo-bap at timothyorguk** (add dots just like in this blog address, but don't add www), and I'll be able to get that.

Oh, and everything happened in a rush this morning, so I didn't bring any games. Booo.