Well, since last thursday, i had a minor stomach ache. Friday was the same and was working a double shift for more money. Saturday i also chose to work a double shift. 22 hours in two days was pretty good. But, on saturday my stomach ache got worse. Instead of leaving work early, i somehow worked through it until the end. Went home, ate some food, readily puked it up. No biggie. Thought i had some kind of a gas bubble, but in lack of farting as i was unable to do so. I was thinking perhaps ulcer. Me and my dad tried to diagnose what it could possibly be, but i wasn't showing a lo of symptoms for it to be anything.
Since the local clinic sucks and is closed most of the time we called an ambulance to take me to a hospital while i was in agonizing pain. I didn't get sleep for 23 hours that day until a shot of morphine was administered. Hopped in the cat scan machine, and found my appendix was enflamed. They promptly removed it 5 hours later when the doctor was done in the ICU. Apparently, going to the hospital was a great idea, since the doctor said it was right at the stage where it was going to bloat and burst (so i didn't end up in the ICU for being septic). It was removed and debilitating pain was replaced with pain that could be managed.
The next part sort of sucks. After surgery they asked if i wanted the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Now i have more pain from the vaccines with a lovely sore throat and arms from the vaccines while my abdomen of course still hurts. Don't go for vaccines the day after surgery, go for them when you are healthier. But, they said my insurance was great i guess. I have yet to find out about the deductibles later, but oh well. I'm alive.
As the appendix is a vestigial organ, i was told a theory about how it got enflamed, but also how that theory usually was easily disproven most of the time. In the mean time, pain.
