more gall bladder woe

My entire abdomen is on fire. My gall bladder is a small nuclear device spreading radiation through my body, and my guts are full of acid that's burning in a different way.

Taking another dose of 100mg Tramadol at 4.30pm, and if it fails to help, going back to hospital again (yes, I was there last night as well as Saturday night) where they should admit me for a few days of delicious morphine therapy and hopefully bump me up the queue for gall bladder extraction.

This illness is totally exhausting me. I keep thinking I've reached the worst pain I've ever had, and then it gets worse. I don't exactly have a low pain threshold, either. I'm sick of being in pain and sick of moaning about it.

If I get admitted to hospital, will anyone who lives within reasonable range of Kingston please come and visit me? Last time I only saw my mum and Richard, and I was so bored it's just not true. Assuming they can get the pain under control, I'll be happy to see anyone that can come & talk to me for a bit.

this is me getting organised

If I get admitted to the hospital, I'll get Richard to post the ward name & phone number in this journal. To make sure I don't get 50,000 people all descending at the same time then no one the rest of the week, I'd suggest you talk to me or him if you're able to come up.

Don't bother bringing flowers (I hate cut flowers) or food (it's hurting me to drink water right now), but books would be appreciated, especially collections of short stories, which require less attention span than novels.

Kingston Hospital is just up the hill from Norbiton station. You come out of the front entrance of the station and turn right, and it's no more than 5 minutes away. Visiting hours in most of the wards are 3-8pm. There is some parking at the hospital, but it is apparently quite expensive (and charges run until 8pm), so if you can walk for 15 minutes uphill, it's better to park near our house (where there is Pay & Display until 6.30pm). Also we can get visitors' parking permits that run for 6 hours for £1 (although we're out of them at the moment).