This reminds me of when I worked in Pathology. After the pathologist did all the analyses on the specimens – the patient wanted them back! I had to go to the bed-side and have a nurse sign a slip “releasing” the stones. Time-after-time, patients would tell me that they were making some sort of jewelry out of the contents of their gallbladder! There are enough in this video to make a mighty fine necklace. My own gallbladder problems had me in the hospital for 2 weeks with high fevers. Come to find out – it was all gangrene. I had to have emergency surgery. The stone causing all the main pain was the size of a walnut. I signed for it in Pathology and got it back. I’m not going to make a pendant out of it – too many bad memories.

I’ve seen them bigger. My grandmother had her gallstones in a mason jar. Clean them up and they just look like rocks.

Pinto beans!!

hmmm, looks like rich dark columbian coffee beans, hand picked by juan valdez.

wow to have that many is unreal, wonder if the patient ate only an extremely hi-fat diet. they must have been so painful, yuck!

Gallstones are hard, pebble-like deposits that form inside the gallbladder. They may be as small as a grain of sand or as large as a golf ball, depending on how long they have been forming. Some stones form when there is too much cholesterol or bilirubin in the bile. Bile is a liquid that helps the body digest fats. Other stones form if there are not enough bile salts or if the gallbladder fails to empty properly.

She’s got enough to make a necklace.
Nice find elvis

Oh my. I had to have mine out a couple years ago cuz i have 30-40 stones in there, one stuck in the duct, and it was infected. I had that crap inside me….no wonder id have horrific pain.