Appendicitis

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.