I’m dealing with sludge in my gallbladder. Basically, my bile has thickened. Some of it has likely turned to gallstones. These gallstones have apparently blocked some of my bile ducts. This results in my gallbladder spasming when it tries to deliver bile upon demand from the intestines. That spasm causes more pain than I felt from my kidney stones a few years back. The short-term solution is to avoid red meat and dairy fats, foods and substances that need more bile to break down for digestion. Long-term, they want to remove my gallbladder.
Last night I dreamed that I was with a young white woman. She wore a white toga clipped over one shoulder. I never got a name and didn’t look much at her.
My attention was focused on the scene before me. It seemed like a large model of organs. “What is this?”
She replied, “That’s your gallbladder and liver. See, there is your bile.”
Leaning over to examine it more closely, I took in the many pebbles in the sludge that was my bile. “You made a model of my gallbladder and liver and filled it with sludge?” I was amazed and amused.
“No, these are your actual parts.”
As I digested that with surprise, she said, “Now watch.”
Hand flat and open, palm down, she swept it slowly around my organs. As she did, all the pebbles just vanished. My bile turned from sludge into something more fluid.
I was agog. “How’d you do that?”
She replied, “You’re all fixed.”
Dream end.
Yes, if only it was that easy, right?
Michael Seidel, writer 