Scheduling my surgery

Today I saw Dr Day. The wonderful doctor who saved my life by finding the tumor in my gut and getting me connected with Dr Saven, my oncologist. Before she even walked in the room I heard her say, 'Is this who I think it is?'as she looked at my name on my chart. Yes it is. I got off the table and threw my arms around her and hugged her for a very long time. She tried to downplay her role in this amazing experience. But I wouldnt let her. I told her, 'You saved my life by pushing this process along. We got it before it got to my bone marrow.'
The next discussion was about my gall bladder. It is full of stones. In the picture it is green When one of the stones tries to travel out of my gall bladder down the bile duct I experience excruciating pain. So the gall bladder has to go. The gallbladder is a little pouch that stores bile from the liver. When food is eaten, especially fatty food the gallblader empties some bile down the common bile duct into the upper part of the intestine. The intestine uses the bile to digest the fat. You can do without your gallbladder, The liver continues to produce bile and it simply goes straight down the bile duck instead of being parked in the gall bladder until it is needed.
The surgery is scheduled for next Thursday April 5. Im not sure what time.
The main thing I have to do while Im waiting for the surgery and for about 6 weeks after is have a very low fat diet. This is perfect! I decided just 5 days ago that I would start loosing the weight I gained over this past year. I gained 10 lbs after Mike died. I just didnt have the emotional discipline to keep my plan going. I also gained 10 lbs during chemotherapy. This is because I was on high doses of prednisone. When I got my second clean bill of health last week I asked Dr Saven if I could start loosing weight. He said yes. So here I go. I was already eating a low fat diet. But Im going to eliminate a few more things.In another post I will talk about what else Im doing to loose the weight.. I have already lost 1.5 lbs.