Susan
That is toooo bad that your boyfriend is not supportive of you healing yourself and keeping your gallbladder! Maybe he needs to read some of the posts of people who have had the 'easy' (ah! just take it out - I don't need it!) surgery...and they STILL complain of the same old pains that their gallbladder gave them when they had it! I've read many posts like this and these people are reeeeally mad and frustrated that they trusted their doctors! Many still have the pain and then they have chronic diarrea and always have to eat a restricted diet. You can totally save your gallbladder and, in time, make yourself as healthy as you desire to be!
Here is a post by Spirit about what the gallbladder is for and what happens when it is removed:
//www.curezone.org/forums/m.asp?f=221&i=910
The more you read the 'recommended messages' in all the Liver Flush/Gallbladder Archives the better...
I don't know about the alcohol connection! Of course wine is better than beer, liqeurs or hard alcohol for you any day. But because you're trying to heal that area I'd quit the alcohol until you're all better.
Definitely take a tincture (teeeeny bit of alcohol in it but I have read many sources that say that the milk thistle and dandelion NEED to be carried directly to the liver/gallbladder and the only way to do that is through the tiny amount of alcohol as a carrier) of milk thistle & dandelion...you can probably find this at your local health store.
And it IS very interesting that you were on a low/no fat diet - because another of Spirit's posts:
//www.curezone.org/forums/m.asp?f=198&i=868 says that your liver and gallbladder NEED good fats because if you don't ingest any fat at all the bile just stagnates and creates stones! So...get that good fat in you. Take flax seed oil or Udo's Choice 3 times a day. Start this right away.
ha! I had to laugh about your 'crazy' remark!! That you notice subtle (and not so subtle!) changes your body is making is such a plus!! Some people are not that aware. So...no, you're not crazy! (they are!)
I guess all the changes you're noticing ARE connected.
Your body is showing you in acute ways that you NEED TO CHANGE something.
Emotionally (how are you? are you doing what you want to be doing? feeling how you want to feel?), Physically (how is your diet - do you eat lots of fruits and vegetables - fresh ones? uncooked? do you drink lots of purified water? Have you cut out junk food and processed foods that are dead and clogging you up? Do you move your body at all? etc etc), Spiritually (do you sense a 'higher purpose' whether it's a 'god' outside yourself, or your higher self...your place in the world...? Feel connected to Life and Living? etc.)
When your body starts acting up...it's good to look at those three areas of your life. Your body is giving you these HUGE pointers! Listen and you will be rewarded in sooo many different ways!
Well...I wish you well (your son sounds great...he is SO right - a little olive oil is nothing compared to the garbage (and 'bad' fats) that most people unconsciously put in their body without a second thought!)....on your healing journey!
Get flushin'!
Tracey