Appendicitis
We had quite the adventure on Monday. It started as suspected food poisoning on Thursday night. I stayed home Friday and was able to do my normal stuff with only minor discomfort on the weekend. I figured it was out of the way until Sunday night after dinner brought it back.
Still feeling sick on Monday morning we headed to a 10:15am doctor appointment on Queen Anne. Before going over I had started to suspect the appendix, it had become a sharp pain in the lower right side of my abdomen. The doctor confirmed my suspicions and sent us directly to Swedish Ballard for a CT scan.
After filling out a few forms I was downing some CT scanner fluid and crystal light at 11:30am. At 12:30pm I was in the CT tub listening to a recorded man’s voice telling to me to breath deep and hold my breath.
After a short detour back to Maple Leaf we headed back to over to the surgeon’s office in Swedish Ballard. He poked around and explained an appendectomy to me. (He did it via a laparoscope.) Around 2:30pm I was filling out more forms in the “Pre-Surgery Patient Registration” office.
Around 3:00pm I was putting on scrubs and we walked to surgery nurses station where they took my temp and asked me lots of questions, twice. (I was asked if I smoked by at least four people.) For there we moved to the another waiting area with beds and warm blankets. We waited there for the anesthesiologist, who started an I.V. and wheeled me into the O.R around 4:00pm. They were playing Lenny Kravits and the surgical nurse was from somewhere in Illinois I have never heard of. That’s about all I remember.
My next memory was of the recovery room, minus an organ. I remember the nurses and not feeling much pain. They wheeled me up to my room where Sherry met me. I ordered some chicken broth and red jello and watched T.V. I stayed the night and tried to get some sleep. Sherry when home.
Next morning I had a bowl of Cheerios and a banana. The doctor came by poked around some more and signed me out. We were out the door around 10:30am. I’ve been at home watching T.V. mostly ever since.
Read this WebMD link for a really scary article on Appendicitis.