Appendix any one?

Tuesday was an ordinary day until about three o’clock. I was at my desk at work when I started getting a stomachache. I thought it was just gas and went to the rest room with no avail. The pain started hurting worse as time went on. I was getting a ride home with a co-worker at 5:30 but ended up calling Megan to come and pick me up at 5. I lost my lunch on the way home and I thought that might relieve some of the pain but it didn’t. We got home and I went and laid down to see if that would help. Nope. The pain just kept getting worse and slowly the pain was moving down into where you appendix was.

I had a feeling that I should go into the doctors. We headed to instant care because it is cheaper than the emergency room and was still open. I was sweating bullets when we got there but I felt cold. They took me in and took x-rays and blood samples. They came back and said that my white blood cell count was around 18000 when normal is around 11000 and the x-ray show inflammation around my appendix. The doctor came back and said you better get yourself to the ER. Megan ambulanced me over to the ER and was very nice to have her with me. In the ER they hooked me up to and IV and fed me some pain medication. This was a nice relieve from the pain. Then I had more x-rays and a CT scan to make sure the Doctors knew where they needed to go I guess. They had another patient in the ER that was more critical than myself so we had to wait until that surgery was done. We got to the ER about 8:30 and my surgery started at about 12:30 that night. I was done by 2 am and I don’t remember much around that time except that I was talked to for a little bit while I was wheeled to my room. I remember Megan there at the room and then I was left a lone to sleep. The surgery went really well and the surgeon said that it was a good thing that we got it out because it was pretty grey looking. I guess that means it was bad. They did it laparoscopy, which is really nice because I just have three holes in my stomach area and the recovery time is a lot faster. I was able to eat and drink with out having it come out again and I haven’t had to have any pain medication since the surgery. I thank all of those who thought of me during this time and I am sure that is why I didn’t feel to worried about the surgery.

I had a lot of tags on me and here is a picture of all the things I had. I had a bracelet from the ER, another one for the Hospital and a third one for, well I don’t know what that one was for but I had three. I also have a bandage where my IV was.