Changing Life After Illness Part 3 | "40% is fine" was a misunderstanding—The true meaning of "40% recurrence" for cholecystitis

Once the inflammation subsides, you tend to think,

"It doesn't hurt anymore, so if I can avoid surgery..."

It is said that for cholecystitis,


if you don't have it removed,
"about 40% will recur."Hearing just this number, you might think somewhere,"Less than half, maybe it's okay"—but actually, that's not the case.


In modern medicine, the first-line treatment for the root cause of cholecystitis is "removal."

After onset, 80-90% of all patients undergo surgery once the inflammation has settled.

In other words,





only about 10% choose to monitor the condition, and about 40% of those cases recur,



which means that.
Thinking about it that way, the weight of the "40%" figure starts to look completely different.

That pain was so intense that even with painkillers, I would writhe for 3 to 4 hours.

Even so—
once it subsides, the fact that "it doesn't hurt right now" overrides everything else.


Even when told "if you remove it, it won't happen again," there is a part of me that wants to put it off.

Without feeling fully convinced, and without being able to fully make up my mind.

I wonder if this"trap of how numbers appear"exists in many situations, not just with illness...

Second day after being discharged.

I am spending a weekend that still feels a bit unsettled.


I think I will spend this weekend taking it easy without forcing myself to reach a conclusion.
And, while I still have a gallbladder that is somehow functioning,

I am enjoying a little bit of my favorite foods,

which I might have to refrain from for a while after surgery,


while being careful about my physical condition.
Without rushing, little by little.

I plan to restart my daily life from the latter half of next week.

Next time, I plan to write about the diet I reviewed as a result of my hospitalization.

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