Gallbladder surgery

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I had been having stomach pains shortly after eating for about a week. The pain would last about an hour and then go away on its own. It started to get so the pain lasted longer each time before going away.
It felt like stomach cramps and eventually radiated into the chest and back.
I woke up last Sunday at 6:00am with really bad pain. I went down and sat in my recliner so I wouldn't disturb my wife with my tossing and turning trying to ease the pain.
It just got worse and worse until around noon when my wife noticed that I was turning pretty yellow.
I kept putting it off but at around 3:00pm I told her that I needed to go to the hospital.
Sat in the waiting room for what seemed like forever but was really only a couple of hours before they got me a bed and gave me some morphine (one sign of how serious it was is that she allowed me morphine every hour as needed). The nurse asked what level my pain was at, I replied honestly that it was at 11. I've never felt such pain in all my life. I've broken bones, had wisdom teeth removed, been stabbed and have pretty severe arthritis. None of those even came close to the pain I was in.
I'm not a drama queen and I thought I was seriously gonna die.
After the morphine kicked in and they did an ultra sound they found it was gallstones blocking something or other and pancreatitis.
They did the thing through the throat to remove the stones and the pain was gone almost right away. I felt ready to go home.
Unfortunately that wasn't to be, they had me wait in the hospital for a week with no food or water (none, zero, zip, zilch. Just IV fluids) till the inflammation went down and then removed my gallbladder.
The surgery went off without a hitch and left me with four small wounds and a shaved belly and chest (I feel like a European pornstar!(not that i watch that stuff)).
Everything is good and I'm home for a couple of weeks before I can go back to work and I'm not allowed to lift anything over five pounds.

My question is, has anyone been through this and if so, have you had to modify what you eat?
I'm told I have to lower my fat intake and avoid certain foods.
The only thing I've really noticed is I'm very gassy, both ends.
I'm also very hungry and eating everything in sight but I attribute that to starving in the hospital for a week.

That was the worst part of the whole ordeal (other than the stabbing pain), was not being able to eat or drink while having to be around people eating and drinking. And smelling the food three times a day.

The nurses, Doctors and all the staff at the U of A hospital were awesome.
Other then the lack of food, I'd stay there if it was a hotel!
Even the TV's are free now!