After successfully proving itself innocent of causing my abdominal pains for four times for the past two years and eventually being spared from the knife, my appendix was finally detached from my system last Wednesday, April 22, 2009.
I was in severe abdominal pain again last Tuesday night, associated with several bouts of vomiting, and when the two ampules of Nubain and Buscopan did not provide even a bit of relief whatsoever, we had to go to the emergency room. I made one last ditch effort by talking the resident on duty into giving me Demerol but that too proved futile. When my attending doctor evaluated and said he thinks it's the appendix, I made no effort anymore to defend my intestinal appendage and so the surgery was set and consequentlly consummated.
Except on the incision site, there was no more pain on the first day post-op but i was burning hot..literally, as my temperature was ranging from 38 to 39.8 degrees celsius. I also had difficulty in 'leaking' though it was claimed by the resident doctor who assisted the surgery that no catheter, indwelling or straight, was passed through my urethra at anytime before, during, or after the operation. I was also suffering on and off vascular headaches. I contented myself with post-op dehydration. Antibiotics changed, paracetamol made round the clock..but the fever kept on coming back even on the second, then on the third day post-op.
I am not fond of staying in one room for more than three days so I made effort to talk my doctor into discharging me yesterday even if I still had episodes of fever and headache Before he let me go, he requested for a typhi dot which turned out positive.
Whatever happened to me, the fact remains that I'm now appendix free. I have let go of the appendage attached to the colon, often blamed as the cause of many cases of abdominal pains. The worm like appendage tagged as the 'bread and butter' of surgeons.
I was in severe abdominal pain again last Tuesday night, associated with several bouts of vomiting, and when the two ampules of Nubain and Buscopan did not provide even a bit of relief whatsoever, we had to go to the emergency room. I made one last ditch effort by talking the resident on duty into giving me Demerol but that too proved futile. When my attending doctor evaluated and said he thinks it's the appendix, I made no effort anymore to defend my intestinal appendage and so the surgery was set and consequentlly consummated.
Except on the incision site, there was no more pain on the first day post-op but i was burning hot..literally, as my temperature was ranging from 38 to 39.8 degrees celsius. I also had difficulty in 'leaking' though it was claimed by the resident doctor who assisted the surgery that no catheter, indwelling or straight, was passed through my urethra at anytime before, during, or after the operation. I was also suffering on and off vascular headaches. I contented myself with post-op dehydration. Antibiotics changed, paracetamol made round the clock..but the fever kept on coming back even on the second, then on the third day post-op.
I am not fond of staying in one room for more than three days so I made effort to talk my doctor into discharging me yesterday even if I still had episodes of fever and headache Before he let me go, he requested for a typhi dot which turned out positive.
Whatever happened to me, the fact remains that I'm now appendix free. I have let go of the appendage attached to the colon, often blamed as the cause of many cases of abdominal pains. The worm like appendage tagged as the 'bread and butter' of surgeons.
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