Surgery, Part 4

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Surgery, Part 4 |
Sunday – October 25, 2026

I am now finished with my surgery and it went well. However, I am going to have to spend a couple of days recovering, and so I suppose that I underestimated myself here a little bit. I thought that I was going to be able to recover quite immediately, but as it looks right now it will take upwards of four weeks. Well, this is fine if you ask me and I think that I will be able to recover my writing earlier than this. At this point I believe that I will probably take till about Wednesday the 28th before I am fully back writing my blog posts, which is why I intend to continue to write about my recovery process in the coming days. I have spoken to my surgeons and all sorts of other medical professionals and I do not need to worry about anything. Of course, the most interesting part of this experience was the fact that being put to sleep by anesthesia is much like how I imagine that it would be like using a time machine to go forward in time; of course, most physicists argue that it is quite impossible to go back in time, but that it is possible to go forward in time, and on this I do not have much to say. I suppose  this is a topic for another day, the topic about time machines that is, although I must add that I find it quite sad if it were true that it is impossible to go back in time, read "The Universe".

    In terms of pain, it is so far manageable and I can now look forward to not having to worry about another gallstone attack, which has been quite straining on my psychology I must admit, and it is something that I find to be nice, knowing that I will not have to worry about that again. I should say that I am certainly not someone who tends to eat a lot of bad food, but still this was enough for me to develop gallstones, and gallstones in my case was enough to put me into severe pain. Now, pain can always be dealt with, but only to some extent, only to some extent, and when it comes to bilious attacks I must say that the pain became too much, not that I cannot withstand pain. Of course, the point is not that you should have to withstand pain, the point is that you should be able to live life with some quality, yes read about quality here. NOw, I am also tired to a rather great extent, but this was also expected; in other words I am somewhat shaken up here, but again this was to be expected, and everything that was to be expected was perhaps not expected by me because I did not do enough research, but this is not a problem; sometimes you are better off not doing too much research. In my case all I can say is that perhaps I was under the impression that I was going to be able to walk out of the hospital the same day. I do also have a little bit of a pain in my shoulder, but this is also to be expected I believe, at least according to the surgeon. Of course, the best thing would have been if I never developed gallstones in the first place, but this I appear to have been ordained to do, and so I took it gracefully, at least I believe that I took it gracefully. Besides, all of these things are not about belief and faith anyhow, and I have outlined what that is in a previous post, read as well my "Medical Emergency updates".

    Allow me to also put an end to the idea that strength somehow must constitute an invulnerable defence against everything in the world, and while I can understand this conception of strength, I can also admit that it is flawed, profoundly flawed and especially in the Kali Yuga, read "The Eschatology of the Kali Yuga". I do not wish to put myself into the awkward comparison of what tends to happen today, but still I can always chose to look at myself as a man right in time, even though I tend to look at myself ahead of time, and I suppose this gallbladder episode really did put me at the center of time, really at the center of the currents. Yes, I am a man of my time at least right now, and I did read somewhere that gallbladder diseases (gallstones in particular) are on the rise and that modern people are more likely, due to lifestyle) to develop gallstones, and to all the sceptics out there I can only say: try it yourself, try living with bilious fever and bilious attacks yourself, and see how funny it is, because I can tell you that you are not likely to find it that funny. Well, perhaps you are one of those "statistical outliers", and in that case I can only say good for you, good for you. Well, it is not good for me, me in this case not being a "statistical outlier" I suppose. I suppose too, that still most people never develop gallstone disease, and so in that case one may say that I am actually a statistical outlier, am I not? I suppose I am, but that would require me to engage in a painful statistical manipulation of the facts, and really something that I just do not prefer to do unless I have to. Do I have to? I do not think so, but perhaps I am the one who is rather at fault here, perhaps I am mistaken? Yes, of course I do blame myself, but I do also recognize that my lifestyle is not the only reason why I developed gallstones in the first place, and I am sure that there are certain general reasons for me developing gallstones, and besides this is what I have been told. Now, I do not wish to dwell on my family history, but let's just say that I am by no means the first person in my immediate familial vicinity who has had their gallstone surgically removed. So, again I do not believe that there is any need to create too much of a disturbance here.

    I know that I am rambling on somewhat here, but after all, rambling is all I can do at the moment, but I do expect to be able to perhaps start to go back to my usual writing schedule by around Wednesday and perhaps earlier than that, it all does depend of course. As you may have noticed, my "Bible Study series" has been postponed by a week, but there was nothing that I could do about this. This means that I hope to be able to cover part 18, chapter 18 of Genesis (בְּרֵאשִׁית) in the week to come. Until Wednesday I expect to keep you updated on my recovery process, and after that I will see if I am able to write fully again. As usual, there are always risks of complications when it comes to surgery, and I am surely aware of this, but so far my recovery has been nothing but smooth.

Reginald Drax (AKA, M. C. Dutt) – October 25, 2026.