Just got out of the hospital today, minus my appendix. I spent the last 3 days at the Cardinal Santos Medical Center in San Juan thanks to that useless little quirk of evolution.
I woke up with intense pain in my stomach last Monday. At first I thought it was just your 'normal' stomach pain but once I stood up I discovered that it was worse. I woke my mom and next thing you know we were speeding towards the hospital. I was supposed to take my first exam for German 10 in the afternoon so I was hoping that all I had was some sort of weird gas pain or at most something that could be cured by a magic pill so that I could go on to school.
But every doctor that examined me at the hospital said that I had acute appendicitis. I had to have an operation so that they could get it out of my body. Damn. There goes my perfect attendance. And my exam.
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I wrote the preceding paragraph last night. I had planned on writing about everything that had happened for the past 3 days, but my computer disagreed with the 200-odd words I had already typed here. Screaming various invectives at my restart-happy power surge magnet of a computer has done nothing to restore what I had already written so I think I'll just give a brief summary of what has happened to me.
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It turned out that my appendix had swollen to 8-9 centimeters. If I had not gotten to the hospital on time or if I had forced myself to go to school despite the pain it would have most probably burst, further complicating my condition. On Tuesday I was confined to my bed, receiving most of my food from an IV. I couldn't even sit up since the wound still hurt. It was only on Wednesday that I started to walk around my room, albeit with me using the IV stand as support. By Thursday morning the IV was gone and I could eat anything I wanted. I could also walk around my room without needing any help, although getting off and into my bed still hurt.
The normal recovery period for appendicitis is two weeks, but I'll most probably be back in school by Monday, unless something else happens. I've already missed a lot of classes, and I can't afford to fail this semester. Haaay...
I woke up with intense pain in my stomach last Monday. At first I thought it was just your 'normal' stomach pain but once I stood up I discovered that it was worse. I woke my mom and next thing you know we were speeding towards the hospital. I was supposed to take my first exam for German 10 in the afternoon so I was hoping that all I had was some sort of weird gas pain or at most something that could be cured by a magic pill so that I could go on to school.
But every doctor that examined me at the hospital said that I had acute appendicitis. I had to have an operation so that they could get it out of my body. Damn. There goes my perfect attendance. And my exam.
***
I wrote the preceding paragraph last night. I had planned on writing about everything that had happened for the past 3 days, but my computer disagreed with the 200-odd words I had already typed here. Screaming various invectives at my restart-happy power surge magnet of a computer has done nothing to restore what I had already written so I think I'll just give a brief summary of what has happened to me.
***
It turned out that my appendix had swollen to 8-9 centimeters. If I had not gotten to the hospital on time or if I had forced myself to go to school despite the pain it would have most probably burst, further complicating my condition. On Tuesday I was confined to my bed, receiving most of my food from an IV. I couldn't even sit up since the wound still hurt. It was only on Wednesday that I started to walk around my room, albeit with me using the IV stand as support. By Thursday morning the IV was gone and I could eat anything I wanted. I could also walk around my room without needing any help, although getting off and into my bed still hurt.
The normal recovery period for appendicitis is two weeks, but I'll most probably be back in school by Monday, unless something else happens. I've already missed a lot of classes, and I can't afford to fail this semester. Haaay...
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