I had been having stomach pains for about a month. I thought it was likely an ulcer and put off having it checked out. On Maura's birthday, I was at work. I had just brought Sophia to wait for the SSD bus. I felt so terrible that I sat on the floor behind her wheelchair. One of the students walking out said "oh, you are meditating". I drove to the urgent care on the way home. They did a CT scan which was terrible because they IV was messed up, so when the dye went through the IV, it hurt terribly. They said I had a ruptured appendix with an abscess. I spent three days in the hospital on IV antibiotics to help with the infection from the rupture. Then ten more days on oral antibiotics once I got home. The surgeon at Mercy said I needed a colonoscopy to ensure everything was ok with my colon. Then his recommendation was no surgery. Not a good recommendation...unplanned appendectomy ended up happening in March.
Colonoscopy prep!
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