Tuesday, April 22, 2014

I've lost my appendix

 My Easter weekend was not how I planed it.
 Easter morning I woke up in the very early morning hours with sharp stomach pain. I have a history of having cysts on my ovaries and just figured it was one of those again, which Dr's won't do anything for, or a bad tummy ache. I went back to sleep hoping to sleep it off and maybe it would go away on it's own. It did not. I finally went to Urgent care about 2pm. they told me to go to the ER they thought it was my appendix and that I needed to go get an ultrasound and all they had was an X-ray machine. (Not helpful to me)
So we headed towards the hospital, However, on the way there the pain subsided and I figured it was a cyst after all and it had ruptured. pain gone, end of story. I opted to go home and rest instead of wait in an ER waiting room and have them tell me I was fine and there was  nothing they could do, but let me rest it out.
About 9pm the pain came back WAY worse than it had been and it had been bad before.
I called my hubby who left work early and the MIL came to put the kids to bed. Off to the ER we went. We got there at about 10:30pm. I checked in and told them I had been sent by urgent care and that they had thought it was my appendix. I was told to have a seat and wait. they took blood and urine and ran some test, and I waited, and waited and waited.oh yeah, and I waited some more. Finally after 3.5 hours of waiting I was brought back at 2AM. examined and told, I was probably having an ovarian cyst rupture and that like I thought there was not much they could do except manage my pain. They sent me for the ultrasound to check the Ovary and to my surprise it revealed I do not have a right ovary anymore. So clearly it was not a cyst on my ovary, so off to CT I went. Hubby had to leave to get the kids up and ready for school and to release his mom who wanted to go sleep in her own bed, I didn't blame her, I wanted the same thing. shortly after 6AM the Dr came back in and it was determined that I did in fact have appendicitis. I was scheduled for surgery for later that day and moved up from the ER to the main hospital.
surgery was at 3pm and by 6 I was back upstairs in my room and one less useless organ.
at least I'll know the next time I have pain like this in my lower right belly it is in fact NOT my appendix.

2 comments:

  1. Wow I'm so glad after a few day I reread this and it actually sounds like a normal not drugged up person wrote it. which in fact I was totally flying on the pain meds when I did. not sure that says a good thing about me. lol but Megan yes, in fact it will not be my right ovary either, so looks like that area is now an open cave. lol

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