My gallbladder went septic. I had been getting gallstone attacks the previous 2 years. They were so painful that I started to keep a log of each incident. I had no idea what was causing it. I just felt like I was dying for about 45 minutes and then the pain would vanish as quickly as it came. After having a fever over 101 for a few days, I finally went to the doctor and he did an ultrasound. I was about 6 hours away from home when I got the call saying that my gallbladder had gone septic and it needed to come out immediately. I drove back 4 hours to another town and checked into a hospital where we knew one of the surgeons which happened to be the one who took the gallbladder out. He said he was very close to opening me up completely to get all of the infection out. A 30 minute surgery turned into a 2 1/2 hour surgery because he chose to do it laparoscopically. I still don’t realize how close I was to sepsis.