I’ve been home from the hospital for two days now after spending a day and a half there. I had some stomach pain the day before and pills and heating pad didn’t work. I had an instinct that it was something bad and sure enough when I went to the hospital, it was indeed appendicitis. It was early enough that I didn’t need emergency surgery so they kept me in observation for a while and I had surgery the next day around 3:00pm. I went home the day after that around 11:00am and have been home ever since. I have a little stomach and back pain but it’s not that bad. I was going to make the comment to my mom and fiance that now I knew what the pain was if I ever had it again, but obviously I won’t every have that specific type of pain again. Having surgery wasn’t a fun experience at all but at least I’m ok and the surgeon and anastheseologist did an excellent job of explaining what was going to happen and putting my mind at ease, at least as much as was possible. I intend to write a more detailed description of the whole experience as soon as I have had at least a few more days to recover.
