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padparadscha is getting part of her digestive system removed:

ellixis: My sympathies. I've been through both gallbladder pain and childbirth, and the gallbladder was worse.
padparadscha: I was starting to wonder if the chestbursters in Alien were actually metaphors for gallbladder attacks, rather than childbirth, myself.
ellixis: Would that imply that gallstones are the larval form of fast food chain restaurants?

Context is coming out of the goddamn gall!