Yay, I’m glad you’re OK - I was starting to worry!
That CO2 pain is a total bitchkitty, and the drugs don’t touch it, IME. Walking seems to help it dissipate, if you can handle walking.
The morning after my appendectomy, I was “treated” to microwaved frozen (processed, lily-white) pancakes that had fossilized on their long trip to my room. WTF, hospital kitchens? Aren’t you supposed to help people get healthy?
Here’s to husbands who fetch food and laxatives.
All they gave me after the gb-ectomy was liquids: broth, phony gelato that wasn’t so bad, tea, etc. And that was a good 15 hours or so after surgery, nothing until that point except mouth swabs and a bit of water, no ice chips until many hours post op.
So how are you doing now, MZ?
Thanks for asking!
Doing OK for the most part. I occasionally have twinges >>there<< (right where the gallbladder was) which I think is most likely because, well, they cut stuff. One or two instances of digestive distress in which I was converted from a purchaser to a renter… not clear whether they were random, or related to the surgery (I had an awful diet this weekend for various reasons and it hasn’t haunted me yet). One instance of a nasty cough about a week after surgery felt like it popped something but I think that was an illusion, as I haven’t died or turned yellow or anything 
I wrote a nastygram to the hospital’s medical director about the lack of pulse ox monitoring and just got a reply; the fellow clearly read the entire letter because he noted I had complimented the staff on several things.
I am debating whether to write the surgeon a nastygram about messed-up medications afterward (that was in another thread).
I see my doc later this coming week about a number of things, including whether my liver numbers normalized - the surgeon told me that those figures were still a bit high as of surgery. I’m avoiding alcohol in the meantime (not a huge loss, I rarely drink anyway).
I’m hoping (wait, that isn’t quite the right word) for other surgery later this year (knee / shoulder problems that I think will not respond to conservative treatment) and I’ve learned a LOT about what to expect, and what to be militant about, should those come to pass.
All in all, I’m quite glad I had the surgery - from the medical records, there were gallstones that might have made me quite sick had I tried to pass them; also there were evidently some adhesions - the word in the transcript was “surprisingly”, I guess they didn’t expect to find such adhesions since I hadn’t appeared to be all that sick.