Appendix Surgery

It has been one crazy week for me. Tuesday I woke up to an unusual pain in my stomach which I had originally thought was a stomach flu, possibly food poisoning. I went about my day, but the pain never ceased. My mom called about at noon just to chat because it had been a while. I told her that I might go and see a doctor. So she set an appointment up in Heber to see the family doctor and he told me it was my appendix that was swollen and that I would need surgery. So I then drove myself to the hospital in Orem to the emergency room at about 4. They got me hooked up to an I.V. with the occasional morphine boost and we waited for the doctor to be done with some other surgeries at a different hospital. At 11:30 That night, the doctor had finally made his way over and I underwent surgery which lasted about an hour. I woke up sometime around 1:30 as they were rolling me in my room and trying to explain to me some things, but I was not very coherent. My appendix was swollen and on the verge of exploding so I am quite lucky that didn’t happen. But, because it was swollen so badly, it was quite infected so I had to stay until Thursday. Now I am recovering quite quickly and just have little pain. So needless to say, its been an exciting week for me.