Coping With Appendectomy

Hello. I had an emergency appendectomy on September 3, 2009. The surgery went well as I am writing this at home a couple days later recovering.

My pain started on Sunday Aug 31. It felt like gas pain. The pain continued and on Tuesday Sept 2, I went to a general physician who gave me an antacid and told me if it didnt get better to come back in a couple days. The doctor did check for an infected appendix but I had vertually no symptoms. No fever, chills, nausea. Only very bad gas pain, or so it seemed.

I went to the emergency room a couple days later on the insistance of my wife (bless her!). They did a CT scan and discovered the infected appendix and sent me immediately to the hospital. It had not yet ruptured but was very swollen and there was no question the diagnosis.

The surgery went well. Please, if you have a persistant stomach ache, go to the doctor. I did not believe it could be anything more than a stomach bug or heart burn. Very lucky. Things could have been much worse.