Hi Leeann,
What are the physical symptoms of your 'diseased' gallbladder?
If I were you I would start eating foods that will help to repair your gallbladder (the body CAN repair itself) and start taking herbs that will help repair too.
Tincture of milk thistle and dandelion are wonder liver/gallbladder rejuevenators.
Can you safely cancel the surgery - I mean, of course they are going to say "you MUST have it out NOW"...but how long have you been living with this situation? Are you in pain? You must give us more details. If you feel confident that you're not putting your life at risk...it might be a good idea just to cancel, then do a couple months of cleansing - the bowel too!, eating the correct diet, flushing and taking milk thistle/dandelion.
Then maybe you can have more tests run and see what the new diagnosis is??
Sandra Cabot's book on 'The Liver Diet' has done wonders for some people on this forum in the past. You might want to take a look at that. On-line or at your bookstore.
Also...I think that if you read "journey to the center of the colon" you would see how a unhealthy, toxic bowel affects all the surrounding organs. If you can detoxify your bowel...then your gallbladder will have a better chance of repairing itself. It WILL, if just given a clean environment and energy to do so.
So, from the link below, I would suggest the following articles:
Journey to the Center of the Colon
The Last Resort
New West Diet
I wish you luck...and hope to hear back from you, Leeann!
Tracey
*oh yeah, for colon cleansing you can read the posts within this post: //www.curezone.org/cleanse/liver/huldas_recipe.asp
*the most popular liver flush: //www.curezone.org/cleanse/liver/huldas_recipe.asp
read all you can and you'll see you CAN repair your gallbladder....
The Doctor Within