Serkle K
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- Aug 3, 2016
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Picture out my Hospital Room window on May 14th - On May 10th, I was admitted (after being a very stubborn old man for the previous 7 days) to the Hospital at about 10:30PM. Apparently my appendix had ruptured on Wed., 5/5 and I didn't realize it - that was actually the day with the least pain of that entire week? Fortunately for me, the rupture, was a rare, encapsulated, sack abscess that kept all the poisons, etc. contained. My Surgeon told me on Tuesday morning, 5/11, that if I -hadn't had this particular rupture, I would have died at home, Sat or Sun!!! (Insert exploding head emoji) Tuesday morning, they installed a drain and put me on IV Antibiotics every 6 hours for the rest of the week, because he couldn't do surgery due to lack of visibility. They did a follow-up CT on Friday that showed the abscess had almost completely disappeared and the drain had slowed to almost 0 output, so on Sunday morning, he removed the drain and discharged me! Plan now is to go back for laparoscopic day surgery around end of June to remove appendix - I just have to monitor for pain, fever, etc, until then. I have never been religious… but thank you Lord! And to everyone out there… when your body tells you something is wrong - GET TO THE DAMNED HOSPITAL!!!
Glad you're doing better!