FU Appendix

[Dave]

About the only tests they did were blood and a CT scan and then straight to an OR. During the next day visit from my surgeon he said I had about 12 hours longer before it likely would have burst, and if it had gotten any more inflamed I wouldn't have been able to have the laparoscopic surgery. Which means I'd probably still be in a hospital room.

[Grant H.]

Mine went bad last year...

Pain doesn't register with me real well, which is a problem, so by the time I actually felt something wrong, the thing was just shy of blowing up.

Turns out it was ~3x the normal size when they cut it out. In and out of the Hospital in 20 hours, and then a week of no work due to healing.

Way better than this last round... Pancreatitis that led to 40 days in the hospital, almost 80 days without a single bite of food, and then another month on the end for just flat recovery. It's bad when they take an organ and tell you it was "dead and gangrenous"... Stupid gall bladder...

Anyway, heal up quick, and get back to it!

[wyome]

^^^ Damn!

[OtterbatHellcat]

I got one in third grade and I toughed it out until I couldn't take it anymore. Turns out I could have died had my parents not taken me to the hospital that night. I had a giant tube draining fluid out of my stomach for a week. Having that tube taken out is something I still remember. Felt like being turned inside out (I think anyway, not really sure what that feels like).


Yep....and the stink when they removed that drain was.............lets just say it made me want to hurl.

[Guylee]

I thought this was going to be a giant thread about all the thing we hate...