hey I have a gall bladder story!
Starting around age 20 I would intermittently get extremely sharp abdominal pain that was absolutely debilitating. Would happen once every 3-6 months and would knock me flat for a solid 4-6 hours. IT was so intermittent that I couldn't identify any trigger. When it was happening there was basically no way to relieve the pain, had to just wait it out. Saw a couple doctors who thought it was gall bladder related, had a bunch of imaging but nothing showed up. When I had kids I decided to really push to get it worked up. Eventually they found some gall bladder sludge (not stones) in my bile ducts. So I would have the sharp attacks anytime the sludge was thick enough to block the duct and then eventually they would move and the pain would be relieved. They said I'd need my gall bladder out eventually, so I might as well do it as an elective surgery so I could plan it and they could do it lapropscopically instead of opening the abdomen.
I'd be out of work for a month because of lifting restrictions so I scheduled the surgery for early March. TWIST: I scheduled it for March of 2020. I had my procedure the day before the hospital canceled all elective surgeries. Two days after my surgery, my kid's daycare closed so now I had to be home with a 2 and a 4 year old while recovering. Good times.