Gallbladder removal is an operation that is done very differently than in 1966.  Since I was in finals, my first year in college, my parents didn’t inform me of mom’s operation until I came home for Christmas and she was still in the hospital.  Her recovery kept her in the hospital over the holiday and left me in charge of my little sister. Dad did the shopping for Christmas and I took my sis to get her haircut.  At our visit to see mom she was upset with the haircut but seeing her in an oxygen tent was much more upsetting to my 6 year old sister and myself. Today one of the first things they do is put the oxygen tubes in your nose and the method of keeping a patient oxygenated is not so dramatic or scarey.  Also the hospital and recovery time is much less.  In fact the the surgery itself is done as an out-patient procedure.  My prayer is for a happy, easy and blessed procedure for my oldest daughter.  Wonder how many gallstones.  My mother had 32 and my sister took them in a jar for show and tell to her classroom after the Holiday vacation.  I’m sure my daughter’s youngest will want to do the same.