A few days after my fall down the stairs and breaking my
fibular bone, I wasn’t feeling well and started to get cramps in my
stomach. I wasn’t sure what it was and
thought it was just something that I ate but Craig was feeling fine. The second day I was still having
cramps. Craig suggested that we should go
to Urgent Care. So we did. I really didn’t want to go because it
probably was something serious but then again it couldn’t be but might as well
be safe than sorry.
It was really difficult to get around in my cast. We were at the Urgent Care and they asked me
to drink some lemonade because they need to do xrays and check my
cellulites. I was kind of cold there in
the Urgent Care. After examining me, they discovered I had a ruptured
appendix and I needed to be sent to the hospital immediately.
All my life growing up I wondered about appendix and if I would ever have it, and if so, when I will have it.
Craig sat up front of the ambulance. They were having trouble putting the IV in
me. I was really scared that day because
after the surgery my belly was really hard and it was blowing up like a
balloon. They had to put a tube down my
nose and it wasn’t a pleasant feeling. I
threw up black liquid. I also was
experiencing sharp pains in my right side that became a continuous pain on and
off. I was given hard pain killers and
it was really difficult moving around with the pain in my right side being
there and on top of that my cast as well.
I had a couple of accidents in bed.
One of the CNAs was pretty ignorant because times I had to go to the bathroom
he didn’t want to wipe my back side.
There was a male nurse that I really liked. He was the sweetest nurse. He came in and he made sure that if I needed
something to let him know and he really meant it too. I had one of those drainage too below my
belly where the poison goes into because there was still poison in there and it
needs to be drained.
I ended up staying in hospital for 8 days. It was really long too. I felt bad because Craig kept coming back and
forth to the hospital. When we left the
hospital to go home, I had trouble getting up the first flight of stairs
because there wasn’t hand rails and it was difficult for me to get up them with
crutches and cast. The driver was really
nice to keep my back steady as I hoped on the steps.
A few days later I got a call from the hospital. It was like a survey on their service. I let them know about the CNA guy who didn’t
really want to help me wipe myself because I couldn’t reach back. I made sure that the really nice nurse was
very helpful and enjoyed his service very much.
I wish there was more nurses like him.
I made sure that for them to tell him that too and thank him for his services.
